The impact of core curriculum revisions on Japanese medical schools: Navigating curriculum evolution.

Purpose: This study examines the impact of the 2010 and 2016 Model Core Curriculum (MCC) revisions on medical education across all 82 medical schools in Japan.

Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted in 2021, focusing on the response to the MCC revisions, curriculum changes, and factors influencing these changes. The survey included questions on approaches to implementing the MCC revisions, timing of curriculum updates, factors triggering these revisions, changes in student performance and career paths, and the introduction of new subjects.

Development of a competency-based national model core curriculum in Japan: A case study.

Purpose: The 2022 revision of the Model Core Curriculum (MCC) for Japanese undergraduate medical education aimed to develop a stratified, national-level competency framework. This paper aims to explore what innovations emerge during the process of competency-based medical education (CBME) glocalisation, driven by the interplay between global and local language and the dynamics among multiple stakeholders.

Methods: This is an explanatory, retrospective, single-case study with a mixed-methods approach, combining document review and participant reflections.

Development of a list of competencies and entrustable professional activities for resident physicians during death pronouncement: a modified Delphi study.

Background: The appropriate delivery of death pronouncements potentially affects bereaved families' wellbeing positively. Although younger physicians need to learn the competencies and entrustable professional activities (EPAs) to conduct death pronouncement independently, both of which have not been clarified. Therefore, this study aimed to develop a list of competencies and EPAs necessary for death pronouncement practice, which resident physicians need to acquire by the end of their residency training (postgraduate year 2).

Development of entrustable professional activities for residents rotating nephrology department in a Japanese university hospital: a Delphi study.

Objectives: Training strategies regarding entrustable professional activities (EPAs) vary from country to country; one such strategy is for residents. However, there are no reports of EPAs developed for residents who rotate to the nephrology departments. We aimed to construct such EPAs, which could be generalised to other institutions.

Lists of potential diagnoses that final-year medical students need to consider: a modified Delphi study.

Background: Contrastive learning is known to be effective in teaching medical students how to generate diagnostic hypotheses in clinical reasoning. However, there is no international consensus on lists of diagnostic considerations across different medical disciplines regarding the common signs and symptoms that should be learned as part of the undergraduate medical curriculum. In Japan, the national model core curriculum for undergraduate medical education was revised in 2016, and lists of potential diagnoses for 37 common signs, symptoms, and pathophysiology were introduced into the curriculum.

A qualitative study of socially isolated patients' perceptions of primary care.

Background: Although the previous quantitative study revealed that social isolation was negatively associated with patient experience of primary care, the underlying reasons for this phenomenon remain unclear. In the present study, we aimed to explore the reasons underlying the influence of social isolation on patient experience in the primary care setting.

Methods: This study was a qualitative study and part of a mixed methods research.

Social Isolation and Patient Experience in Older Adults.

Purpose: Social isolation has been identified as a major health problem, particularly in the elderly. In the present study, we examine the association between social isolation and patient experience in elderly primary care patients.

Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted in a primary care practice-based research network (28 clinics) in Japan.

Effects of Breathing-Based Meditation on Earthquake-Affected Health Professionals.

On March 11, 2013, the Great East Japan Earthquake (magnitude 9) hit the northern part of Japan (Tohoku), killing more than 15 000 people and leaving long-lasting scars, including psychological damage among evacuees, some of whom were health professionals. Little is known about meditation efficacy on disaster-affected health professionals. The present study investigated the effects of breathing-based meditation on seminar participants who were health professionals who had survived the earthquake.