title: Postgraduate education of traditional Japanese (Kampo) medicine: a current survey on the training hospitals in Kanagawa prefecture.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  There is no precise survey of postgraduate Kampo education in Japan. We aimed to survey the current status of postgraduate Kampo education and to identify major problems and suggest solutions to promote Kampo education during internship.
  
  
  METHODS
  The questionnaire, for the 58 training hospitals, including the 4 university hospitals, in Kanagawa prefecture, was mailed to the director of each hospital and the instructors responsible for clinical training.
  
  
  RESULTS
  There were 49 responses (84%): 84% of the instructors recognized clinicians' need to prescribe Kampo medicine; 63% thought Kampo education should be introduced into the clinical training; 55% thought a standardized form of education was necessary; 14% had Kampo education programs; 69%, 13%, and 9% of instructors at hospitals without Kampo educational programs noted the lack of Kampo instructors, time, and need to teach Kampo medicine, respectively; 82% had no plans for Kampo education; 44%, 29%, 24%, and 5% of hospitals permitted future Kampo instruction through voluntary study, lectures sponsored by Kampo manufacturers, study sessions with other hospitals, and independent study, respectively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Kampo education should be introduced into large training hospitals, where qualified Kampo instructors are more easily found, and where many interns and residents work.
authors.affiliation: Department of Oriental Medicine, Tokai University School of Medicine, 143 Shimokasuya, Isehara, Kanagawa 259-1193, Japan. arai@tokai-u.jp.
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: Ayako
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Arai
authors.forename: Shun-ichiro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Izumi
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D007564:Japan; D020835:Medicine, Kampo / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D000078329:Workforce