Tohoku university school of medicine

Our office researches the subject related to the medical education, and accomplishes the business concerning a project, a plan, an adjustment of the educational activity in this faculty, the evaluation, and "Common Achievement Test for Medical Students" and the business announcing to public various data bases related to management, the improvement of the educational activity. In addition, it has aimed to participate in the project and the adjustment of the postgraduate training, and to attempt the improvement of the academic level of this faculty. In modern medical education, it is in the situation that cannot correspond by past methods of education, and it is indispensable to a present medical education to always do an effective introduction and the maintenance of new educational thought and the method, etc. for the reform of the education. This center is located in the front corresponding to these problems.

1)Clinical skill education of infection control in the preclinical curriculum and objective-structured clinical examination of medical students Journal of Japanese Society of Enviromental Infections, 22, 52-56 2007

2)Introduction of problem-based learning/tutorial education into preclinical medical education Journal of Higher Education Tohoku University, 2, 49-54 2007

3)Hypotension in "How to get diagnosis from symptom in primary-care" Diagnosis and Treatment vol.96 Supple 2008

4)Takahashi K, Komaru T, Takeda S, Sato K, Kanatsuka H et.al: Nitric oxide inhibition unmarks ischemic myocardium-derived vasoconstrictor signals activating endothelin type A receptor of coronary microvessels. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol.289(1): H85-91 2005

medical education, clinical diagnosis, interactive education, curriculum design, faculty development, FD, curriculum evaluation, evaluation of educational outcome, coronary microcirculation, ischemic heart disease