2013 Project Midterm Report 2 Chihiro Shinohara (Physician’s Assistant student, Pace University) Project: To introduce PA’s to the Japanese Community and to create a student committee to provide support for Japanese high school and college students who seek to work…
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Creating a JMSA Facebook Page
2013 Project Midterm Report 1 Ken Stern (MS3, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine) Project: To create a JMSA facebook page to help build the community by helping to connect members. Contact: k-stern@fsm.northwestern.edu Proposal Summary: My proposal involves creating a…
Reproductive Health Survey
ATTENTION ALL PHYSICIANS WHO GRADUATED FROM MEDICAL SCHOOL IN JAPAN: The JMSA invites you to participate in a research project conducted by two JMSA members-in-training. Please read on for more information: We are studying the knowledge, feelings, and preferences of…
— Vol. 8 Transplant Surgery: Tomoaki Kato, MD
Our latest JMSA Interview Series is with Dr. Tomoaki Kato. Dr. Kato is the Chief of the Division of Abdominal Organ Transplantation at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY. He specializes in liver, multivisceral, pediatric and intestinal…
AMEILOG あめいろぐ
http://ameilog.com/ Ameilog is a new website created by JMSA scholars Dr. Atsushi Sorita and Dr. Aki Asai. It’s a web portal that features blogs by Japanese healthcare providers practicing in the United States. The blogs are interactive, and members…
Medical Student Blog Series:アメリカでの医学生生活
JMSA medical student blog series 9-5-2011鈴木 まり出身地：ニューヨーク州現在、ワシントン市(Washington DC)のジョージ・ワシントン大学医科大学院（George Washington University School of Medicine）の三年生 ジョージ・ワシントン（ＧＷ）大学医科大学院について私の学んでいる学校はワシントン市のど真ん中にあり、ホワイト・ハウスから約一キロのところにあります。
Progress Report 2010: Sahara Fund Medical Mission
Ms. Yoko Atsumi is a 5th year medical student at Kagoshima University in Japan. She is a recipient of the 2010 JMSA-Nishioka Foundation scholarship, which supported her work with the Sahara Fund Medical Mission. Ms. Atsumi spent a month providing…
Progress Report 2010: Pediatric Emergency Remote Simulation
Dr. Akira Nishisaki is currently a critical care attending at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). (Click here for Dr. Nishisaki’s bio) He received a 2008 JMSA-Honjo Foundation Scholarship to conduct a remote simulation project between Tokyo’s Nihon Igaku Kyoiku Gakkai…
— Vol. 7 Neurosurgery: Kosaku Amano, MD PhD
The JMSA Interview Series is a student-ran project sponsored by JMSA and the Honjo and Nishioka Foundations, where medical students interview attending physicians in various specialties. The interviews are posted online for educational purposes. Our first international interview is with…
— Vol. 6 Gastroenterology: Makoto Iwahara, MD
Dr. Iwahara is a gastroenterologist in New York City, and is the president of the Japanese Medical Society of America. We asked Dr. Iwahara questions about his background, gastroenterology, and his vision for JMSA. Undergraduate: Brown University, Providence, RI Medical…