Coordination of discharge care is critical to reducing hospital readmissions and ensuring optimal patient outcomes, particularly among the elderly demographic. This is a pressing issue for health care delivery in both Japan and the US, where aging trends coincide with…
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JMSA Shadowing Program Report 3
JMSA Shadowing Program Report 3 Message from Megumi Grace Sugita: The shadowing opportunity I had through JMSA will influence me throughout my pursuit in medicine. I arrived at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital to shadow cardiothoracic surgeons Dr. Hitoshi Hirose, Dr.…
JMSA Shadowing Program Report 2
JMSA Shadowing Program Report 2 Message from Yoshiki Takeyama: Through the JMSA shadowing program, I shadowed Dr. Kano [JMSA Mentor] for 3 sessions. I had the opportunity to observe what a typical day is like for a physician and it…
JMSA Shadowing Program Report 1
JMSA Shadowing Program Report 1 Message from Christina Theodorou: Through the JMSA Shadowing Program, I was able to shadow Dr. Erich Anderer [JMSA mentor], a Japanese-American neurosurgeon practicing at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn. I watched as he performed an…
JMSA Shadowing Program Sign Up
To sign up for JMSA Shadowing Program, please follow the links below Healthcare Professional Mentor Sign Up (http://tinyurl.com/kr9qwry) Student Sign Up (http://tinyurl.com/k263oqt)
Cervical Cancer Screening
JMSA Project Report 6 Lisa Akiyama (Medical Student, Oakland University: William Beaumont School of Medicine, Rochester, MI) Project: To educate Japanese women about cervical cancer screening. Download the pdf here
JMSA Physician Maps
JMSA Project Report 5 Noah Berland (Medical Student, NYU School of Medicine, New York, NY) Project: To Create JMSA Physician Maps on Google Maps Please see Noah's work here
Studying the Health Effects of Radiation, Evacuation, Diet, and Stress
JMSA Project Report 4 Dan Ebner (Medical Student, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI) Project: Studying the health effects of radiation, evacuation, diet, and stress in Kawauchi Village, within the exclusion zone of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. …
The Nishimiya Fellows Program
The Nishimiya Fellows Program is a week-long seminar held at Fukushima Medical University (FMU) that introduces students to the topics of disaster medicine and gives them an opportunity to learn more about the long-lasting effects of the earthquake and tsunami that devastated…
Fukushima Global Health Research Trip
2013 Project Midterm Report 3 Kenji Fujitani (MS1, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai) Project: One of my projects was to plan a global health program to visit Fukushima during the summer to study the effects of the nuclear…