[Postgraduate neurology training in Japan].

In order to improve Japanese postgraduate adult neurology training, the author compared the ongoing training in Japan and 5 neurology training programs in the USA. Japanese neurology training lacks pediatric neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, and neuropathology in many institutions. In order to improve our neurology training we have to establish more systematic programs, and have to ask for cooperation of various departments. We have to improve interdepartmental relationship, and we have to include other institutions for establishing adequate rotation program. In Japan neurosurgery and psychiatry rotation can be done in the same hospital, but we may have to send the residents to other institutions to cover pediatric neurology and neuropathology.