国立保健医療科学院研修中のフィリピン留学体験記

As a second-year resident at the University of Tokushima Hospital, I report on my experience of overseas training in the Philippines under the training program of the National Institute of Health Sciences. The National Institute of Health Sciences is an institution that conducts education, investigation, and research related to health, medical care, and welfare, and I trained for two months in the Department of Clinical Training in Community Health, Specialty Course III. In addition to the out-of-hospital training at the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Chiba Prefectural Government, and National Institute of Infectious Diseases, the one week overseas training in the Philippines（Manila） consisted mainly of lectures and training on mosquito-borne infectious diseases, zoonosis, and parasites at the University of the Philippines, Philippine General Hospital, Suburban Health Center, and WHO Western Pacific Office. Infectious diseases are very different from those in Japan. The actual observation made us understand that rabies and parasitic infections are raging in the Philippines due to the sanitary conditions of the living environment, which is very different from that of Japan. By learning about the medical system at overseas medical facilities, we were able to rethink deeply about the merits of the Japanese medical system and the direction it should take in the future from various perspectives.