Annual Report 2020
Center for Education and Professional Career Development
Tetsuo Akimoto, Takashi Kojima, Namiko Aoshima, Chika Sasaki, Tomoko Takeichi, Hinata Kishimoto
Introduction
The Human Resources Development Center plans and manages human resources development, such as career paths for each occupation and the acquisition of professional qualifications, and builds training courses for the acquisition of the specialized knowledge and skills required for cancer treatment. By planning workshops and coordinating job rotation, we aim to improve the medical care level of the entire hospital and community medical staff, and to educate the general public.
The Team and What We Do
1. The career path was created to build a human resources development system that realizes advanced medical care and research for cancer. To support the acquisition of qualifications for each department, we provided support for the acquisition of qualifications required by each department. The number of qualification acquisition support cases in 2020 was 48, but the number of executions was only 22 mainly due to the coronavirus pandemic and the state of emergency.
2. Job rotation for hospital staff (internal rules): To deal with the chronic shortage of human resources such as medical information, research support, and ethical review in the hospital, we established job rotation rules for hospital staff (IRB from the pharmacy department). Secretariat: one person, IRB Secretariat from the Radiation Technology Department: one person, Clinical Research Coordinator Office from the Clinical Laboratory Department: one person).
3. We planned and held a briefing session for residents who wish to apply, as well as a NEXT symposium. In addition, a briefing session support system (internal rules) for academic societies was created and put into operation. In 2020, almost all conferences were held online.
4. In 2020, training was provided to a total of 63 people, including 15 cancer specialists, 27 regular residents, 14 short-term residents, 0 cancer specialist pharmacists, and 6 pharmacist residents.
5. We are starting a resident course for medical physicists and have conducted application and selection tests. There were more applications than capacity; we decided to hire three applicants for residency in 2020.
6. A work conference was held once a month for collaborative graduate students to provide degree research guidance. Eight collaborative graduate students received their medical degree in 2020.
7. We started an overseas training support system and decided to support 4 staff members. However, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, overseas training could not be conducted and was therefore carried over to 2021. We are now considering whether additional applications will be required while checking the situation in 2021.
8. We held English conversation training to improve the English proficiency of our medical staff, as well as Chinese language courses.
9. An instructor liaison meeting was started to examine problems in the guidance of specialists (held every other month). We accepted trainees and students (285 total participants).
10. We planned and implemented various educational seminars and lectures on resident guidance methods.
Future Prospects
1. At present, the types of work that the Human Resources Development Center can be involved in are still limited, so we will get an understanding of the situation regarding securing human resources in a wider range of occupations, identify problems, and actively provide information accordingly. We would like to build a system that secures excellent human resources by disseminating information.
2. To contribute to the internationalization of hospitals, we would like to cooperate not only with domestic facilities but also with overseas facilities, and strengthen efforts and human resources development with a view to securing international human resources.
3. In the Human Resources Development Center, we will develop staff with expertise in our center’s work.