Japanese needz mo' st00pid doctors

[Taro Toporific]

[floatr][/floatr]Clinical training period for doctors should be cut
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...

[Sentakki Fried Chicken]

If this means getting more doctors who are anywhere near as good as the dealings I've had with my various physicians, then I'm all for this.