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Center for the Promotion of Medical Education
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A center working to improve educational quality through research on medical education and proposals for improvement.
AboutAbout the lab
Moving medical education further forward.
The center conducts surveys and research on medical education and works to improve the quality of education at Tohoku University School of Medicine.
Its work includes designing, operating, and evaluating the curriculum, and making proposals for improvement.
The center also develops advanced educational programs so that students and graduates can maintain a broad perspective and spirit of inquiry and engage in self-directed learning.
Through evidence-based practice and reform of medical education, it aims to train the people who will lead future healthcare.
Key terms
- Self-directed learning
- A way of learning led by the learner. It is regarded as an ability needed to absorb up-to-date medical knowledge.
- Gamification
- An approach that brings game elements into learning. Here it is used in the early stage of learning to provide extrinsic motivation.
- Simulated patient
- A person who plays the role of a patient to help medical students and healthcare professionals learn. They take part in simulation-based education.
ResearchResearch themes
To improve the educational activities of the School of Medicine, the center takes part in planning, drafting, and coordination, and makes proposals for improvement and evaluates them. It also develops advanced educational programs so that students and graduates can maintain a broad perspective and spirit of inquiry.
*Illustrative imageDeveloping International Communication Skills
To cultivate an international perspective for working in global research and clinical practice, the center provides opportunities to study abroad in countries around the world for basic research and clinical clerkships. It also supports presentations at international conferences.
*Illustrative imageEducational Models That Lead to Self-Directed Learning
Self-directed learning is an ability needed to absorb the ever-growing body of up-to-date medical knowledge. The center uses gamification in the early stage of learning to motivate students, and develops educational models based on adult learning theory.
*Illustrative imageSimulation-Based Medical Education Programs
The center develops advanced learning programs using simulators in the Clinical Skills Lab, with the cooperation of simulated patients.
*Illustrative imageMedical AI Education Program
To train healthcare professionals who can use AI to design solutions to hard-to-solve medical problems such as COVID-19, the center is developing an AI education program specialized for medicine.
MembersFaculty
The center's members consist of faculty, part-time lecturers, and administrative staff (technical staff and administrative assistants).As of 2026
- ProfessorJyunichi Tanaka
- Associate ProfessorYosuke Kakisaka
- LecturerEiko Onishi
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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: “Group of Medical Student” Mawcsthojai / CC0 (cropped)
- Developing International Communication Skills: “StarFlyer boarding pass and ROC Passport 20181117” Wei-Te Wong / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Educational Models That Lead to Self-Directed Learning: “Ohio University Lecture Hall” Garden Sprite / CC0 (cropped)
- Simulation-Based Medical Education Programs: “BabyMannequinDCSUQROO” Quintanarroan / CC0 (cropped)
- Medical AI Education Program: “139 Server Room 01” Indrajit Das / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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