Tokyo Women's Medical University

School of Medicine

General Medicine

Overview

Department of General Medicine provides comprehensive medical care, rather than specialized care, for the individual, family and community. It serves coordinative function with medical and long-term care facilities in and out of the university to meet most health care needs of the patient. The scope of the department encompasses care for both sex, each organ system and every disease entity.

                                    

Education Details

The Department of General Medicine, Tokyo Women’s Medical University (TWMUGM) provides educations about general medicine/family medicine, and primary healthcare, for each generation of healthcare professionals, such as medical students, junior residents, senior residents, and graduate students. As well, we provide inter-professional educations for the various medical professionals. 　The TWMUGM weighs importance on career-long education for general medicine/family physicians and other collaborating healthcare professionals. As well, we have activities of continuous medical education on themes related to general medicine/family medicine.

Research Details

The TWMUGM conducts research several themes in general medicine/family medicine, communication, community medicine, and medical education. We especially focus on the behavioral aspects of patients and medical professionals, as well as collaborations between specialties or healthcare professionals. We use both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
?Research on the relationship between the characteristic of physicians and patients’ medical seeking behavior or their health status
?Research on non-verbal communication using artificial intelligence (AI)
?Other researches of family medicine/general medicine

Faculty

Yousuke Takemura
Haruki Sekiguchi

Related links

Department of General Medicine, Tokyo Women's Medical University, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital
Research Achievements Database

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