J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 85(9): 873-877, 1984

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Report on the annual meeting

SURGERY IN MEDICAL EDUCATION

What is expected from medical education is not always one to both sides -the side expecting, the side expected. People expect it to give training of medical care for their own lives, in short, the art and morals in medicine. Medical students expect to learn medical science and the medical art. Medical educators expect medical science and to bring up researchers to advance it, namely in the present medical education we see mingled expectations of medicine, which to be a science and the right way of medical care in social life.
Medicine is indispensable to medical care, while the former can be apart by itself. What men should be to keep social life is not fundamentally different, irrespective of the presence of intervention of medicine, but the reason why morals in medicine is especially emphasized is that consideration of life is covered in the name of medicine, namely science.
Surgery, as it is generally called, is a general term for a field where operations are jointly used as a means of treating diseases. Operation is not fundamentally different from medication or radio therapy in point of being artificial, but its artificial participation as a remedy is remarkable and complete.
In surgical treatment destruction and mending are a means and object as well. In life-saving, urgent surgery the means after comes close to the object, sometimes the order is inverted. Training for meeting active actions has an important mission.
Since operations are the prop in surgery, adaptability to operations will be selected more carefully,but we presume that the art, such as incision, resection, suture will be off man's hand, and should consider internal organ transplantation which is trying to overcome the difficulty as a process to reach artificial internal organs.

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