[Towards the establishment of a postgraduate training program of neurology--in the case of Tokyo Medical and Dental University].

The training as neurologist in Department of Neurology and Neurological Science, Tokyo Medical and Dental University has mainly been performed through 3rd to 5th year after the graduation. It includes training for neurophysiology, neuroradiology and neuropathology as well as clinical neurology. Neurophysiology training has the separate 3 months course where trainee residents study exclusively neurophysiology but neuroradiology and neuropathology were learned during training for clinical neurology in general. The major problem of our training program is that the quota is so small to prepare enough trainee's positions. This appears also true in many institutes in Japan according to a questionnaire survey by this workshop. The number of neurology staff should be increased to accomplish better training for Neurology in each institute. The Japanese Society of Neurology should support this effort in each institute.