3年制教育施設のめざすべき方向
三 村 邦 裕*
Direction of Three-Year Educational Establishments
Kunihiro MIMURA, PhD*
The medical laboratory technologist education currently offered at four state run junior colleges will be upgraded to higher education as all those junior colleges become universities in 2004. It has already been decided that several private junior colleges and vocational schools are to be upgraded to universities as well.
Furthermore, the course will not only be offered in undergraduate universities, but also on a postgraduate level, increasing the number of medical laboratory technologists with a master's degree or a doctorate. This reform is perhaps due to a demand for medical laboratory technologists of higher quality because of such social conditions as a highly-sophisticated information society, advancement in healthcare and medicine, and transition from volume to quality. It is also a measure for securing further capacity by seeking adequate human resources because of the declining population in the 18-year-old bracket, due to the declining birth rate.
In such a condition, the direction three-year educational establishments must take is to nurture human resources with qualities that compare favorably with university graduates. As ways of accomplishing this, we could focus on practical technological education at vocational schools with the educational period set at four years, or recruit and train university graduates with rudimental abilities, as they do at specialist postgraduate schools.
[Rinsho Byori 51 : 467〜470, 2003]
*Department of Medical Technology, Toyo Public Health College, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151-0071
【Key Words】medical laboratory technologist(臨床検査技師)，vocational schools(専門学校)，three-year educational establishments(3 年制教育施設)，bachelor(学士)
*東洋公衆衛生学院臨床検査技術学51-0071 東京都渋谷区本町6-21-7)
E-mail :mimu@fsinet.or.jp