
Mainichi --February 20, 2009
A government panel has recommended that clinical training for new doctors be vastly reduced to as short a period as one year.
A panel to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, chaired by Jichi Medical University president Dr. Fumimaro Takaku, called for reductions in the number of required subjects to be studied by new doctors...more...