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Community Medicine Education Lab
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The lab supports education in which medical students learn community medicine and also conducts research on it.
AboutAbout the lab
Training physicians motivated to serve community healthcare.
The Community Medicine Education Unit works on education that allows Kyushu University medical students to learn community medicine, and on research with community medicine as its field.
Established in May 2012, the lab works with off-campus training facilities. It aims to help as many medical students as possible grow into physicians with the motivation and sense of mission to serve community healthcare.
As the population ages, holistic care is needed that looks not only at disease but also at the body, mind, and lifestyle. For this reason, the lab places importance on training in community settings.
At Kyushu University, in addition to the required community medicine practicum in the 5th and 6th years, the lab also offers an optional Clinical Clerkship community medicine practicum for those who wish to take it.
Key terms
- Holistic care
- Medicine that aims at the patient's overall recovery of health from a comprehensive perspective that includes the body, mind, psychology, and lifestyle
- Clinical Clerkship
- A community medicine practicum that interested medical students undertake for four weeks at a hospital in Fukuoka Prefecture, separate from the required practicum
- Improv
- Improvisational theater. It is used in professionalism education for healthcare students
ResearchResearch themes
The lab conducts research with community medicine as its field, including establishing an effective community medicine education model suited to Japan's circumstances. The research page lists studies on bringing theater and improvisational theater into medical education, evaluations of programs at facilities for older adults, and policy research on physician maldistribution.
*Illustrative imageEducating Healthcare Students through Improv
This is research on using improv (improvisational theater) in professionalism education for healthcare students. The lab works on both the educational practice and its evaluation.
*Illustrative imageEvaluating the Effects of Drum Circles
The lab developed a drum circle workshop at a day care facility that people attend from home, and uses mixed methods to evaluate how it affects older adults and care staff.
*Illustrative imageCommunity Health Classes Using Theater
The lab develops and evaluates a café-style health class that uses theater and is familiar to the local community. It builds on experience with the Diabetes Theater, which was carried out through collaboration across many fields.
*Illustrative imagePolicy Research on Physician Maldistribution
The lab has joined, as a co-investigator, policy research on advancing effective measures against physician maldistribution, based on the physician securement plans.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Community Medicine Education Unit consist of teaching staff (an Assistant Professor) and administrative assistants.As of 2026
- Assistant ProfessorSatoshi Hiramine
- Assistant ProfessorKentaro Okazaki
- Assistant ProfessorTomomichi Sakai
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Medical Students in a Dissection room a Mbarara University Medical school” JacobOcenFay / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Educating Healthcare Students through Improv: “Improvisational theatre in Iran-Qom City-2018-Canon 5d Mark7” Mostafameraji / CC0 (cropped)
- Evaluating the Effects of Drum Circles: “Neoshamanic drum circle” Carptrash / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Community Health Classes Using Theater: “Physiotherapist Saimonah Mokupe teaches a class of community health workers ( )” Ness Kerson/madNESS Photography for AusAID / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Policy Research on Physician Maldistribution: “Rural dental clinic ( )” Jorge Láscar from Australia / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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