医学生に対する地域医療教育の実践とその評価

The shortage of doctors has been a major problem in community medicine in Japan. Tokushima Prefecture has more doctors than an average of Japan, but the shortage is seen in parts of the south and west in the Prefecture due to an uneven distribution of doctors. Therefore, lectures and practices to learn community medicine and general medicine have been newly started in a curriculum of Tokushima University since 2008. In this review, we showed results of a questionnaire for medical students about community medicine and general medicine which were obtained just before the beginning of the education, and discussed how to evaluate the system of education.