Abstract
We surveyed medical curricula devoted to transfusion medicine for medical students in the year of 1997. All medical universities in Japan were included in this questionnaire survey (80 universities). Answers were received from all the universities. Only 29 of 80 universities had specific curricula devoted to transfusion medicine. Lecture time was 1.9±3.3 hours in the course of 6 years. Transfusion medicine was taught in a variety of courses, such as legal medicine, internal medicine, etc. Total lecture time regarding transfusion medicine was 7.6±6.5 hours. Forty-one universities had training time for teaching how to test blood typing and compatibility testing, and time to discuss the use of blood products, but total training time was only 3.7±6.0 hours. Legal medicine and laboratory medicine also included training time regarding transfusion medicine, with total training and discussion time regarding transfusion medicine of 8.3±6.1 hours. We believe it is necessary for all medical universities to have specific curricula devoted to transfusion medicine.
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