Rinsho byori. The Japanese journal of clinical pathology
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A model core curriculum for medical education was proposed in March 2001. Medical schools have to revise their curriculum according to the guideline. ⋯ The GIO of the clinical practice at 5th grade was for the post-graduate clinical training. This revision is expected to improve education and result in better doctors.
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Along with the rapid advances in the fields of life science and technology, the knowledge that the medical students are expected to acquire has expanded in many areas, and also many subjects have been subdivided into special fields, thus resulting in a situation in which the knowledge that doctors obtain at medical school is quickly becoming less uniform. Therefore, the introduction of a standardized medical school curriculum and postgraduate training systems has been discussed over the past several years. ⋯ This workshop has been organized to introduce the findings of both original and advanced trials being performed by medical schools and educational hospitals with different backgrounds. At first, the progress of these reforms is summarized in order for the participants to obtain a better understanding of the undergoing reforms.
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Human error has identified as a major source of ABO incompatibility-related transfusion fatalities. Frequency of ABO-incompatible transfusion has been reported to range from 2.5 to 253 per 100,000 transfusion units. ⋯ In laboratory examination, many errors were occurred during night shift, because it was necessary to established the examination system. We discussed about examination for prevent of blood transfusion errors.
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We developed a simple method to eliminate electrocardiogram (ECG) artifacts from electroencephalogram (EEG) records by using simultaneously recorded ECG data. The raw EEG data, the real EEG data and the ECG data were regarded as multi-dimensional vectors Ea, Er and C, respectively. Also, the ECG data, with reduced amplitude whose coefficient was denoted as 'k', were assumed to be overlapped on the real EEG. ⋯ Then two other hand-to-foot references of ECG were added to the recordings, and the elimination procedure was performed using all of the simultaneously recorded ECG data at the three references. Consequently, elimination was much improved in most subjects, including the brain-dead patient. Our method may be useful for eliminating ECG artifacts without changing reference electrodes.