54. Japonijos rezidentūra Year Under- graduate Postgraduate 6 year 2 year 4year Later -2003 Under- graduate Training for specialty with belonging to the university-hospitals CPD 2004- Obligatory Clinical rotation at various hospitals Training for Specialty
Next, government have changed the postgraduate training since 2004. Until 2004 graduates decide their specialty without any basic training and usually have to decide the department to belong with. Nowadays, the graduates must take two year clinical rotation and they take a examination to enter their desired hospitals. After two years, Training to be specialists starts. However the process of training for specialty have been unclear. And new young generations have a tendency to select the urban city hospital for their first two year training and some of them also have a negative feeling to belong to the department. In this way, young physicians are floating in the city hospital and university hospital with struggling under the unclear career process.