Required Subjects for Community Health and Medical Training, 2nd Year
Community health and medical training
Program Instructor: Shunichiro Kiuchi
1. the purpose
The purpose of this course is to recognize the social needs for health guidance, medical care, and welfare in the community, and to understand through practice the roles of public health centers, local medical institutions, and welfare facilities, as well as the roles of doctors and various professionals working at these facilities, and to acquire the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to respond appropriately to various inquiries about health, medical care, and welfare from local residents and patients.
2. Training plan
In principle, the training period will be one month, and training will take place at the Osaka City Health Center or clinic, the Kita Ward Medical Association Visiting Nursing Station, and the Kita Ward Home Care Service Center "Ikiki Net." Clinics will make efforts to allow training in different specialty areas as much as possible.
3. Training goals
1) Osaka City Health Center
- Gain an overview of the overall operations of a public health center.
- Students will gain experience in the various administrative tasks and projects carried out by public health centers in relation to tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, and will gain an understanding of the current situation.
- Through consultation and home visits to patients living in the community with serious illnesses, we will understand the relationship between patients and the local community.
- Students will understand that medical safety can only be ensured through organized and comprehensive efforts, and will learn measures to prevent medical accidents and how to respond after an accident occurs.
- Students will learn about the role of public health centers and the steps doctors should take when residents face a health crisis due to a disaster or accident.
- Understand the role of public health centers in pediatric and developmental medicine.
- Students will gain an understanding of organized health management, health promotion, and disease prevention, such as local health checkups and vaccinations, and gain practical experience if the opportunity arises.
2) Understand visiting nursing stations, home care service centers, the long-term care insurance system, and the local welfare system, and understand the relationship between the community and facilities, on-site practice at facilities, and the role of home care services.
- Understand the process of nursing care certification and practice certification surveys. Learn how to write a doctor's opinion letter.
- Understand the reality of patients' home life through practical training in various home care services (lifestyle guidance, assistance with bathing and eating, home rehabilitation, etc.).
- Understand the contents of day care services.
3) Clinic
- Experience frontline medical care and understand its significance.
- Students will understand the influence that the environment surrounding a patient has on their condition, and will learn the importance of treating patients holistically and building good relationships with their families.
- Understand the role and significance of frontline medical institutions in local health and welfare programs.
- Understand the current status of activities of local medical associations.
- Recognize the importance of collaboration between hospitals and clinics.
4. Evaluation method
Residents will submit reports on the training content at each facility, and the person in charge at each facility will evaluate the residents on evaluation criteria set out separately.
In addition, the program manager will conduct a comprehensive evaluation based on the report and each facility's evaluation form.
