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…
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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…