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　地域医療学センターは，教育，研究および医療提供を通して，地域医療を推進するために設置された。医学生や研修医を対象とする医学教育は，地域の自治体，診療所や病院と提携して行なう。また，当センターでは地域社会の疾病構造を明らかにし，地域に特有な病気の原因を明らかにするための研究を行なう。その知見をもとに疾患を治療するのではなく，患者を治療する視点で健康問題対策を講じることが出来る医師を育成する。なお，当センターは内科分野，外科分野からなり，主な特徴は以下のとおりである。

【内科分野】

1. 患者の苦痛を緩和するのみならず，患者と家族，そして地域社会全体における健康の増進に寄与できる，有能で思いやりのある内科医の育成
2. 家庭医療専門医，病院総合専門医を目指す医学生や研修医を対象とする医学教育プログラムの実践
3. 臓器別専門医を目指す医学生や研修医に対するプライマリーケアの実践経験の提供
4. 地域の基幹病院や診療所で地域医療に従事する医師に対する専門医取得，キャリアパス形成等の様々な支援
5. 地域における健康問題や疾病構造など，地域と関連した臨床研究，ならびに地域医療学センターで行う教育を評価し，発展させる方法についての研究の推進

【外科分野】
　外科分野における地域医療の活性化と人材育成を目標としている。その主な業務は，

1. 外科系の地域医療の現状と問題点の把握
2. 地域基幹病院や研修病院に従事する外科系医師の確保とそのネットワークの再構築
3. 医学生及び臨床研修医の診療所実習教育などを通じ，将来の地域医療に従事する外科系医師の育成
4. 地域医療に従事している外科系医療人のキャリアパス形成などの支援・推進
5. 外科系の地域医療学の学問構築

　The mission of the Center for Community Medicine is to provide education, research, and medical service for promoting community-based medicine. The Center has many collaborative partnerships which include many community organizations, clinics and hospitals which conduct educational activities.
　The Center conducts community-based research that produces new knowledge about the origins of disease, and uses this insight to pursue improved health care provision to treat whole patients, not just isolated illness. The Center consists of Division of Internal Medicine and Surgical Division. The features of each Division are listed below.

Division of Internal Medicine

1. The center aims to train competent and compassionate physicians who promote health and relieve suffering in concert with patients, their families, and their communities.
2. The academic program prepares medical students and residents for careers in Primary Care Medicine.
3. The center provides exposure to the primary care practices for individuals planning careers in other specialties.
4. The center provides service to the doctors working in rural hospitals and clinics by providing educational opportunities for individuals pursuing careers in the patientcare professions.
5. The center conducts community-based research on rural health and epidemiology, and applied research that enhances our teaching programs.

Division of Surgery

Our goal is to encourage the activity level of rural medicine and train capable people in Division of Surgery. Our major works are...

1. To understand the current situation and problems of rural medicine in surgical field.
2. To secure the number of surgeons and surgical-related doctors who are working for main local hospitals and trainee-accepting hospitals, as well as to rebuild its network system.
3. To train surgeons and surgical-related doctors who will work for rural medicine in the future through practical education at a clinic where medical students and clinical trainee can receive it.
4. To encourage and support surgical medical staffs who are working for rural medicine to advance their career.
5. To build education system of a surgical-related rural medicine science.