Nara Nobuo, Suzuki Toshiya, Nitta Yoshio
Center for Education Research in Medicine and Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Yushima 1-5-45, Bunkyo-Ku, Tokyo 113-8510, Japan.
J Med Dent Sci. 2011 Jul 4;58(2):23-7.
It is not certain whether graduate-entry program (GEP) or non-graduate-entry program (non-GEP) in medical education is desirable to foster excellent medical physicians in Japan. In order to clarify the present state and problems of GEP, we visited 27 national medical schools which have introduced limited term college graduate-entry program and discussed with the deans, the education committee and administration affairs.GEP students are elder and usually study harder than regular non-GEP course students. Therefore, they got the higher grades at 1-2 classes of GEP course than the regular non-GEP course students. However, some GEP students lost motivation to study medicine and got poor grades at higher class. There was no definite difference of the final grades at the graduation between GEP and non-GEP students. Most of GEP students became medical practitioners and few students chose physician scientist majoring in basic medicine.We did not find any advantage of GEP compared with regular non-GEP. The results show that the introduction of GEP throughout Japan should be discussed carefully.
在日本，医学教育中的研究生入学项目（GEP）或非研究生入学项目（非GEP）是否有利于培养优秀的医学人才尚无定论。为了阐明GEP的现状和问题，我们走访了27所引入了限期大学毕业生入学项目的国立医学院，并与院长、教育委员会和行政事务人员进行了讨论。GEP学生年龄较大，通常比普通非GEP课程的学生学习更努力。因此，他们在GEP课程的1-2年级取得了比普通非GEP课程学生更高的成绩。然而，一些GEP学生失去了学医的动力，在高年级时成绩不佳。GEP学生和非GEP学生毕业时的最终成绩没有明显差异。大多数GEP学生成为了执业医生，很少有学生选择基础医学专业的医学科学家。我们没有发现GEP与普通非GEP相比有任何优势。结果表明，应谨慎讨论在日本全国引入GEP的问题。
