The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology has revealed that Kanazawa Medical University and Kinki University, which are private universities, have applied for an increase in the capacity of the medical school since 2021. The total number of medical students in national, public and private universities in 2021 is planned to increase by 2020 from 27 to 9,357, and Yamagata University and Niigata University are applying for an increase in the number of national universities.
According to the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Kanazawa Medical University plans to increase the capacity of the Faculty of Medicine to 2020, which is one more than in 1, and Kinki University to 108, which is five more.Yamagata University will increase the number by 5 to 112, and Niigata University will increase the number by 8 to 113.
The capacity of the medical school has been reduced to 1982 by a cabinet decision in 1997 and 7,625.It was explained that the purpose was to maintain an appropriate number of doctors and curb medical expenses, but in the 2000s, a serious shortage of doctors became apparent in regions such as Tohoku, and comprehensive measures to secure new doctors, measures to secure emergency doctors, etc. The number of medical students has continued to increase, and has increased to the 2013 level since 9,000.
In both 2020 and 2021, it is said that the current capacity will be tentatively maintained within the range of the capacity of 2019 in 9,420.Based on this, it is expected that in 2021, the number of regional quotas for training doctors who will be responsible for regional medical care will increase by 25, and the number of research quotas for training research doctors will increase by one.
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