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A total of 14 percent of medical students said they were asked personal questions on topics including marriage and childbirth during their entrance examination interviews, a survey showed Tuesday. Some female students were asked whether they thought being pregnant was an advantage or a disadvantage, ...
Evidence suggests Tokyo Medical University rigged scores for donors' relatives, panel says
A third-party panel probing admission irregularities at Tokyo Medical University strongly suspects there was a relation between donations and some score adjustments. According to an additional report released by the university on Monday, the names of 11 successful entrance exam takers were included in a ...
Government cuts off subsidies to Tokyo Medical University over entrance exam discrimination
The institution was among several found to have discriminated against female applicants in entrance examinations.
More Japanese medical universities seen rigging entrance exams: education ministry report
More medical universities in Japan are likely to have manipulated entrance exam results against female applicants and favored particular individuals, the education ministry said in its midterm report Tuesday, without disclosing the names of the institutions. The ministry has been probing 81 medical schools in ...
Juntendo University and Showa University are suspected of rigging the results of entrance examinations for their respective medical faculties in the same way Tokyo Medical University did, informed sources said Saturday. Juntendo and Showa, both in Tokyo, are believed to have applied different test judgment ...
More medical schools were found to have disadvantaged female applicants in their entrance exams, in a survey taken after the discovery that a Tokyo medical university had manipulated test scores to curb female enrollment, education minister Masahiko Shibayama said Friday. Shibayama told a news conference ...
More men pass entrance exams than women at 80% of Japan's medical schools: survey
The government released preliminary results of a survey on medical school entrance exams in the wake of a prestigious university admitting it lowered the scores of women to curb their enrollment.
Med schools offered subsidies for surgical training via donated corpses to curb malpractice
To reduce malpractice, the government will encourage medical schools to introduce a surgical training program for practicing doctors and dentists that makes use of donated bodies, health ministry sources said Sunday. The ministry has requested ¥500 million ($4.5 million) from the state budget for fiscal ...
The education ministry's recent decision to approve creation of a new medical school at an existing university in Tohoku marks a new development in the government's oscillating policy on the education of doctors.
In rare move, new medical department to be set up at university in Tohoku
The government will permit a university in Tohoku to establish a new medical department, education minister Hakubun Shimomura said. To be launched as early as spring 2015, it will be the first medical department to open in the country since the University of the Ryukyus ...
