Evaluation of Kampo education with a focus on the selected core concepts.

According to a questionnaire survey of the current status of Kampo medicine education Medicine in 2011 to the 80 medical universities in Japan [1], only 44% of the universities provided eight or more classes on Kampo medicine. The objective of this study was to review the effectiveness of an educational method to enhance medical students' interest in and understanding of Kampo medicine and to increase their motivation to study it in the Kampo education course for which the number of class meetings are severely limited compared to those of Western medicine.