JPNOverview
Social medicine specialist programme based at three Kanagawa medical universities with 20 partner sites and 42 supervisors, many of them corporate occupational-health departments (e.g. Fujitsu, Ricoh, IBM Japan, NEC, Panasonic); the programme incorporates the Japan Society for Occupational Health specialist training items and allows company groups nationwide to serve as a training site.
The programme
- Focus
- Occupational health (industry/environment) within social medicine
- Training type
- Specialist training programme
- Duration
- 3 years
- Start
- Not stated on official page
- Positions
- 20 (programme total)
- Accreditation
- Japanese Board of Social Medicine (社会医学系専門医協会) training programme; 2025 edition (June 2025)
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Physicians who have completed initial clinical training and are employed by a base or partner institution
- International applicants
- Not stated on official page
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Japanese medical licence and completion of initial clinical training
How to apply
- Deadline
- Not stated on official page
- Application method
- Register as a trainee following the Japanese Board of Social Medicine trainee-registration guidance; selection by the programme management committee per base-institution criteria
Funding
- Funding
- Not stated on official page