Through our work with PHMI we have introduced new ideas and approaches into our curriculum, including patient-doctor relationship courses, hybrid programs integrating basic science and clinical studies, and innovative clinical clerkship programs.
Since 2002, TMDU has cooperated with Harvard Medical International, Inc. (Partners Harvard Medical International, Inc. since 2008) and implemented wide-ranging reforms into our medical education. One of the chief aims of this alliance is to create a new model of medical education in Japan in order to meet various challenges we face in the 21st century. Partnering with PHMI, closely related to Harvard Medical School, TMDU has introduced new ideas and approaches into its curriculum, including patientd doctor relationship courses, hybrid programs integrating basic science and clinical studies, and innovative clinical clerkship programs.
　The alliance with PHMI also provides TMDU students with a chance to take part in a clinical clerkship at Harvard Medical School. As a part of a recent curriculum reform, TMDU introduced the Harvard Medical School Externship program in 2004. The students who pass the selection process go through nine months of preparatory training then take part in clinical clerkships at Harvard Medical School. They stay in Boston for three months and take three, four-week elective clerkship rotations. Harvard Medical School provides exchange students from all over the world with a chance to experience the same clinical training as Harvard students at HMS affiliated teaching hospitals. Working hard with talented and enthusiastic students of HMS and other elite medical schools. TMDU students can develop their clinical skills and get a better understanding of the American healthcare system as well as acquire an international way of thinking.
