Training Courses
Introduction
Our resident training course is divided into two categories.
One is designed for young physicians and surgeons who have 3-5 years of clinical
experience to allow generalists to specialize in clinical oncology. Persons
in this course are simply called residents. Their training period is 3 years.
We accept about 12 new residents each year. A second more advanced two-year
course is designed to produce future leaders in specific fields. Up to 6 medical
doctors with 5-10 years clinical experiences enter this program every year,
and are called senior residents.
In July 1992, when NCCHE opened,
the resident training course began with 8 young physicians and surgeons. Although
there were many difficulties and problems in the beginning, they continued
studying as well as carrying out the daily clinical work in the hospital.
We have continued to develop our training systems in close cooperation with
hospital staff members. At the first resident graduation in 1995, NCCHE introduced
the senior-resident system and increased the number of resident we could accept
from 8 to 12. As our clinical and academic reputation has grown, NCCHE has
attracted quite a few voluntary medical trainees, including doctors, nurses
and technicians. Accommodation is prepared for anyone of the voluntary trainees
who elects to stay.
Routine Activities
The resident curricula at NCCHE
consist of two parts, the special and rotating courses. For the initial 6
months residents are trained in disease- or therapy-specific units (q.v. index
page) of their choice, in order to know how to find their way of learning.
After this, they move to the other clinical units (rotating course) for one
or one and half years to obtain a wide basic knowledge and to learn the techniques
of clinical oncology. After concluding the rotating course they return to
their chosen speciality to graduate as medical or surgical oncologist.
Trainees in the senior resident
course spend the first year as physicians or surgeons of specific clinical
units. The training program for senior residents is more targeted to particular
organs, diagnostics and/or therapeutics. Senior residents work as coordinators
of residents, whom they support in clinical practice. The second year is devoted
to basic or clinical research. Staff members from the Research Institute and
clinical laboratories support them at their request.
Voluntary trainees are divided
into two groups; those with guaranteed funding from a domestic or international
project and others. Various training courses are available for voluntary trainees,
although the training period is limited to less than a year for any one major
field.
New Developments
We have overcome many of the
difficulties we experienced when we first began the training program at NCCHE,
and have improved the training system. As a result, more than 100 of trainees
have visited during a year since 1997, as in the following statistics. Although
the number of voluntary trainees is less in 2000 than that in 1999, their
individual training period is much more prolonged. And more than 25 articles
have been published in English journals by residents or trainees under the
guidance of staff members in the hospital and/or research institute in 2000,
in addition to quite a few of their presentations at the international congress
such as ASCO meeting and the like.
|
Number
of Residents, Senior Residents and Voluntary Trainees (July 1992- December
2000) |
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|
Voluntary trainee |
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|
Resident |
S. resident |
M.D. |
Nurse |
Technician |
Others |
Total |
|
|
1992 |
8 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
8 |
|
1993 |
15 |
0 |
0 |
9 |
4 |
0 |
28 |
|
1994 |
23 |
0 |
9 |
12 |
1 |
0 |
45 |
|
1995 |
27 |
3 |
25 |
10 |
5 |
0 |
70 |
|
1996 |
31 |
6 |
37 |
1 |
3 |
2 |
80 |
|
1997 |
35 |
7 |
54 |
16 |
5 |
10 |
127 |
|
1998 |
36 |
12 |
56 |
20 |
4 |
1 |
147 |
|
1999 |
34 |
12 |
62 |
17 |
3 |
27 |
155 |
|
2000 |
34 |
12 |
51 |
25 |
7 |
10 |
139 |
(S. YOSHIDA)
