Annual Report 2022

Center for Education and Professional Career Development

Yuichiro Ohe, Hidehito Horinouchi, Tomomi Hata, Hironobu Hashimoto, Hayato Tsuchiya, Kanyu Ihara, Toshihiro Ishihara, Atsushi Urikura, Yuko Hirose, Yoshimi Katori, Kayoko Miyata, Kenta Takehara, Tsukasa Oshino, Tsukina Ohno, Yukiyo Fujita, Futaba Sugibayashi,Rihoko Matsusaki, Yukiko Mizuguchi

Introduction

 The Center for Education and Professional Career Development was established in July 2014 to cover all of the National Cancer Center.  The roles of the center are nurturing and securing of able human resources, clarification of the career path in each type of job, and improvement of a systematic educational program.

 In February 2019, the Center for Education and Professional Career Development was reorganized as a department in each hospital, namely, National Cancer Center Hospital and National Cancer Center Hospital East.

The Team and What We Do

 The resident educational program of the National Cancer Center has a history of more than 50 years, but we have started a re-examination of the resident educational program to produce more able cancer specialists effectively. We have been discussing building a new resident educational program that can cope with the change to a new board certification system which started in 2017. The new resident educational program started in 2019, and the resident educational program for medical physicist started in 2021.

Education

 The cooperative post-graduate school program with Keio University and Juntendo University was started in 2012, the program with Jikei University School of Medicine was started in 2017, the program with Nagasaki University and Meiji Pharmaceutical University was started in 2018, the program with Hoshi University was started in 2019, and the program with Saitama Medical University was started in 2022. In 2022, one, 27, 21, seven, one and four post-graduate students, that is, 61 in total, were registered on the cooperative post-graduate school program with Keio University, Juntendo University, Jikei University School of Medicine, Nagasaki University, Meiji Pharmaceutical University and Hoshi University, respectively. Nine post-graduate students among them received a Ph.D. in 2022.

Future Prospects

 The National Cancer Center has a role to nurture experts in a variety of jobs engaging in medical treatment and research for cancer and will provide support for cancer patients throughout Japan. It is also anticipated that we will nurture able professionals who should be leaders in their field in the near future.  We are aiming at the development of a system performing personnel training by all types of jobs related to medical treatment and research for cancer and support for cancer patients including office workers and doctors.