Training World-class
Family Medicine Specialists!!
Shizuoka Family Medicine
(SFM) Training Program
The Shizuoka Family Medicine Training Program is a world-class family physician
training program that prepares family physicians who can work especially in group
practice.
We strive to train family medicine specialists who can be a primary care physician
for the entire family, revive community health, and effectively provide care in the
super-aging society.
SFM Program’s 8 Features
❶ Supported by the Local
Government
• A family medicine training program managed by two cities and one town of Shizuoka
Prefecture (Iwata-City, Kikugawa-City, and Mori-Town)
❷ Excellent Training and
Teaching System
• Excellent training and teaching system that produces family medicine specialists who can
provide care of wide breadth and of high quality
❸ Supported by the
Department of Family Medicine
at the University of Michigan
• SFM has the support of Dr. Michael Fetters and the other attending physicians at the
Department of Family Medicine at the University of Michigan (UM) for training SFM
residents. UM Family Medicine was ranked 3rd in the US in 2009 for its excellence and its
national reputation in family medicine.
• Program residents have the opportunity to participate in family medicine training and
Continuing Medical Education courses at UM.
❹ Training World-class Family
Physicians
•SFM trains skilled family medicine specialists who can provide care not only of internal
medicine and home visits, but also of the wide breadth as in the US so they can serve as a
primary care physician for the entire family. Training breadth includes internal medicine,
psychosomatic medicine, pediatric medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, surgery,
orthopedic medicine, dermatology and emergency medicine.
❺ Training Family Medicine
Specialists Who can Effectively
Provide Care in the Community
❻ Excellent Training
Environment
❼ Family Friendly Residency
Program
❽ Continuous Training from
Preliminary Residency through
Advanced Training Available
• Physicians who can work especially in a group practice, not in a solo practice.
• Physicians who can support the elderly to “age well” (aging healthy with a purpose in life) and “age
in place” (aging while living a life of your own in a familiar place)
• Physicians who can contribute to revival of community healthcare by providing inpatient care to
patients utilizing open access system and providing up to level 1.5 emergency medical care
• Training in family medicine clinic
• Training in 2 community hospitals and 1 regional hospital
• SFM provides training curriculum considerate of female physicians’ needs and
helps with the placement of their children in day care so they can be trained
to be family medicine specialists.
• Possible to do preliminary residency training at Iwata City Hospital, and
continue seamlessly in specialty training in the family medicine specialist
course
Shizuoka (Iwata-City・Kikugawa-City・Mori-Town)
Family Medicine Training Project
Shizuoka Prefecture
Iwata-City
Iwata City Hospital
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Kikugawa-City
Kikugawa General
Hospital
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Mori-Town
Morimachi Public
Hospital
The Iwata-City, Kikugawa-City, Mori-Town
Family Medicine Training Liaison Council
Family Medicine
Training Project
Board
Family Medicine
Training Program
Committee
University
of
Michigan
Secretariat in
Iwata City Hospital
Japan
Institute of
Family
Medicine
(General Inc.
Foundation)
Shizuoka Family Medicine Training
Program Staff
Leadership
Program Director, General Attending Physician：
Tsukasa Tsuda（Professors Emeritus of Mie University)
Attending Physician: Kiyoshi Sano （Former Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family
Medicine, University of Michigan）
Attending Physician: Yosuke Fujioka（Former Clinical Lecturer, Department of Family Medicine,
University of Michigan）
Attending Physician: Keiichiro Narumoto（Former Faculty Development Fellow, Department of
Family Medicine, University of Pittsburgh）
Supervisor of Hospital Training：
Masahiko Terada（Assistant Hospital Director, Iwata City Hospital）
Hajime Futami（Assistant Hospital Director, Kikugawa General Hospital）
Masaki Nakamura (Hospital Director, Morimachi Public Hospital）
Residents
Tomohiro Arai:（PGY 3, graduate of Yamanashi Medical University）
Yoshiari Uchibori（PGY 3, graduate of Mie University)
Hironobu Nakane（PGY 3, graduate of Aichi Medical University）
Shinji Tsunawaki（PGY 3, graduate of Yamaguchi University）
Collaboration with the University of Michigan
•Dr. Michael Fetters and other attending physicians at the Department of Family Medicine at
the University of Michigan (UM) provide training support for SFM residents.
•UM Family Medicine was ranked 3rd in the US in 2009 for its excellence and its national
reputation in family medicine.
•SFM residents have the opportunity to participate in family medicine training and Continuing
Medical Education courses at UM.
Family Medicine Specialist That SFM Strives To Train
Primary Emergency
Medical Care
Group Practice
Home Care
Pediatric Care
Ob/Gyn Care
Adult and Elderly
Medical Care
System of Training with 3 Hospital
Cooperation in Shizuoka Prefecture
Iwata City Hospital
Acute Care,
Secondary～Tertiary Emergency Care
Obstetrics and Gynecology Care,
Pediatric Care, other specialty care
(See continuity Family Medicine patients
once a week (Half Day Back) in
Kikugawa and Morimachi Family Health Center).
Kikugawa General
Hospital,
Kikugawa Family Health Center
Family Medicine Outpatient Training,
Obstetrics and Gynecology, and
Care for Kokoro (mind)
Health Check-ups, and Inpatient Care
University of
Michigan
（Short-term Training
in the US）
Morimachi Public Hospital
&
Morimachi Family Health Center
Family Medicine Outpatient Training,
Home Medical Care,
Health Check-ups,
and Inpatient Care
After completion
Group Practice at the Family Health Center
Family Medicine Specialty Training
Curriculum
APR
Specialized
training
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEP
OCT
Ultrasonography,
(ER)
Specialized Internal Internal Internal
training Medicine1 Medicine2 Medicine3
2nd Year
Endoscopy, Half day back、
ER training
Specialized
training
3rd Year
DEC
Family Medicine Internal Medicine Surgery Pediatrics ・ NICU
Orientati
on
1st Year
NOV
Half day back
Pediatric ER
Half day back、 ＥＲ training
Orthopedics
Obstetri
cs
Half day back、 ER,
Obstetric ER
JAN
FEB
Obstetrics
MAR
Gynecology
Half day back
Gynecology ER
Family Medicine
Pediatrics
Endoscopy, (ER)
Half day back, ER,
Pediatrics Department ER
Family Medicine
Psychiatry(2/week)
Radiology(1week)
Dermatology
Urology (2/week)
Ophthalmology
Otolaryngology(2/week)
Elective
Family Medicine Center and
Community Health Network
Small-scale,
multifunctional
facilities
Key Regional Hospital
Group Home
Family Health Center
Activity
Center
Family Health Center
20 Open Bed
Initial
emergency
outpatient
Care
Emergency
Outpatient
Support
Prevention
・Medical Care
Home Nursing
Station
Community
Clinial Pass
Cooperation of
diagnosis and
treatment
Private
Practitioner
Private
Practitioner
Private
Practitioner
Home care
Home for the aged