Hinohara Fellowship

Hinohara Fellowship

Be an Enhancer of Primary Care Education in Japan

The Hinohara Fellowship is a fellowship program organized by the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC), which is one of Harvard Medical School’s major teaching hospitals. The selection committee in Japan sends one fellow every other year. The candidate is selected from physicians with a passion for teaching primary care medicine at a teaching hospital or university in Japan.

Boston’s Beth Israel Hospital, the predecessor of the current BIDMC, had long been famous for providing patient-centered care at the highest quality of medicine. There is a common saying, “If you want good care, go to Beth Israel”. It is also famous for having developed a General Medicine and Primary Care outpatient clinic, the first of its kind in the U.S. The hospital, as a pioneer in primary care education and research, continues to produce cutting edge research in primary care and provide leading educational programs that are conducted by excellent faculty. The Hinohara Fellowship enables a fellow to learn from the best teachers in clinical medicine and research in a resource rich environment. By doing so, it also fosters the emergence of new Japanese leaders in primary care education who can eventually advance primary care in Japan.