Updated : August 8, 2019

Department of Doctor-Patient
Relationships

Member

Hitoshi Ishii(Professor)　
Akira Kaito(Specially Appointed Professor) 

Overview

The Department of Doctor-Patient Relationships has the following areas of responsibility:

・The role of the doctor in the integration of their scientific
knowledge and human understanding.
・Human relationships in medical care.

・Commitment to people living with illness and their medical effects(outcomes).

・Understanding the differences between disease and illness.

・Communication learning and training in medical human relations.

・Reconstruction of the narrative of people living with illness.

Through study of the above, our aim is to nature competent, humane doctors who understand, care for, and truly alleviate the suffering of the patient as well as the control of the patient’s medical conditions.