Annual Report 2024

Center for Education and Professional Career Development

Yuichiro Oe, Hidehito Horinouchi, Kanyu Ihara, Hironobu Hashimoto, Toshihiro Ishihara, Haruka Chitose, Tomomi Hata, Atsushi Urakura, Yoshimi Katori, Yuko Hirose, Kenta Takehara, Tsukasa Oshino, Tsuki Ono, Sachiyo Fujita, Futaba Sugibayashi, Yukiko Mizuguchi, Risa Uchida

Introduction

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

 In February 2019, the Center for Education and Professional Career Development was reorganized into departments within each hospital, namely the National Cancer Center Hospital and the 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 more effectively produce capable cancer specialists. We are discussing building a new resident educational program that can cope with the change to a new board certification system, which started in 2017, and the new resident educational program was launched in 2019. The resident educational program for medical physicists was launched 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 2024, 24, 23, eight, and two post-graduate students, namely 57 in total, were registered on the cooperative post-graduate program with Juntendo University, Jikei University School of Medicine, Nagasaki University, and Meiji Pharmaceutical University, respectively. Nine post-graduate students, among them, received a PhD. in 2024.

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 support for cancer patients, and provide Japan with those diverse professionals. It is also anticipated that we will nurture able professionals who should be leaders in their field in the near future. We aim at the development of a system that performs personnel training for all types of jobs related to medical treatment and research for cancer, as well as support for cancer patients, including office workers and doctors.