Curriculum revelation of Japanese medical education

The current clinical medical curriculum of Japan takes ways of integrating curriculum, optimizing content, merging into the interdisciplinary and frontier knowledge, adding practical courses, etc. , fundamentally forming a comprehensive curriculum system of clinical medicine, which overcomes some disadvantages of traditional curriculum model. Through carrying out extensive discussion group learning, encouraging students to study independently, take the initiative to discover and solve problems. Moreover, setting up scientific research training content and medical information courses, pay attention to improve students＇ scientific research quality. Based on the actuality of curriculum of national undergraduate clinical medicine, proposing the ideas as the followings： integrating curriculum and establishing the comprehensive curriculum system, early exposure to clinical and strengthen practice teaching, being familiar with the subject frontline and its dynamics, and focusing on the information technology, training students＇ active learning consciousness and abilities of independent innovation. Key words: Clinical medicine ;  Curriculum design ;  Japan