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Advanced Regional Medicine Lab (Iwaki City Medical Center)
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A joint course based at Iwaki City Medical Center where students conduct research while serving in community healthcare.
AboutAbout the lab
Working toward a degree while serving community healthcare.
The Advanced Regional Medicine Lab is a joint course of the Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, established at Iwaki City Medical Center.
With the aim of training physicians who are well versed in advanced medicine and who serve community healthcare, the lab consists of internal medicine and surgery divisions.
Visiting professors and the students enrolled in the course work at Iwaki City Medical Center and carry out research on community healthcare.
Enrolled students can earn a degree while working as physicians at Iwaki City Medical Center.
Key terms
- Joint course
- A course in which a graduate school signs an agreement with an external institution such as a hospital and carries out education and research at that institution.
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- A disease in which inflammation occurs in the intestines. It is considered an intractable disease, and promoting its diagnosis and treatment within regional medical areas is called for.
- Ischemic heart disease
- A disease caused by insufficient blood supply to the heart muscle. It includes conditions such as myocardial infarction.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab advances community-based medical research and medical education, and conducts clinical research that makes use of the abundance of cases. This section introduces research themes given by the visiting professors of gastroenterology, cardiology, and gastroenterological surgery (the descriptions on the lab's page date from around 2018).
*Illustrative imageGastroenterology research, including inflammatory bowel disease
The lab focuses on multicenter prospective studies of gastrointestinal diseases and on developing new treatments for inflammatory bowel disease. It also aims to establish treatments for gastrointestinal diseases that are suited to very elderly patients.
*Illustrative imagePathology and treatment of heart and blood vessel diseases
The research themes are the pathology and treatment of ischemic heart disease, heart failure, and arteriosclerosis. Students conduct clinical research at Iwaki City Medical Center, which has abundant cases, and through collaboration with the Department of Cardiology at Tohoku University Hospital, they can also experience research at the university.
*Illustrative imageClinical and basic research in gastroenterological surgery
While training clinically as gastroenterological surgeons in community healthcare settings, students conduct clinical and basic research on gastrointestinal diseases and surgery. In collaboration with Tohoku University divisions such as gastroenterological surgery, joint research is also possible as needed.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Advanced Regional Medicine Lab consist of visiting professors and associate professors, and the students enrolled in the course.
- Visiting ProfessorSeiichi Takahashi
- Visiting ProfessorMasafumi Sugi
- Visiting Associate ProfessorYoshihito Yamamoto
- Visiting ProfessorHiroshi Yoshida
- Visiting ProfessorToshitake Aizawa
- Visiting Associate ProfessorIsao Sasajima
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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: “Photo - Exterior Hospital” Kimmelvin / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Gastroenterology research, including inflammatory bowel disease: “Flexibles Endoskop” de:Benutzer:Kalumet / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Pathology and treatment of heart and blood vessel diseases: “Composicion-Cardiologia” Ivan2010 / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Clinical and basic research in gastroenterological surgery: “Surgical instruments used in gynecology” GiftedLydia / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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