Current status of Kampo medicine curricula in all Japanese medical schools

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Arai, Makoto ^a   Katai, Shuichi ^b   Muramatsu, Shin ichi ^c   Namiki, Takao ^d   Hanawa, Toshihiko ^e   Izumi, Shun ichiro ^a  

^a TOKAI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TSUKUBA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JICHI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Curriculum standardization; Education; Kampo medicine; Medical school; Questionnaire survey; Traditional Japanese medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BOOK; CHINESE MEDICINE; CURRICULUM; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SCHOOL;

CURRICULUM; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FACULTY; HUMANS; JAPAN; MEDICINE, KAMPO; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL; TEXTBOOKS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84868217803     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-12-207     Document Type: Article

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