Department of Emergency Community Medicine

Compared to medical care in urban areas, regional medical care is characterized by weakness in both hard aspects such as infrastructure, and soft aspects such as the small number of medical professionals and specialized medical departments. In order to provide appropriate and prompt medical care to local residents, including the citizens of Tanba Sasayama in the Tanba Sasayama medical area, when they develop an illness that requires emergency (emergency medical care), Department of Emergency Community Medicine has been established at Sasayama Medical Center as a course mainly in charge of the emergency department. The course aims to proactively treat patients with acute symptoms, regardless of whether they are in business hours or not, and to improve the quality of emergency medical care in order to improve treatment prognosis.

In addition to this department, Sasayama Medical Center also houses the Department of General Medicine and Community Health Science. In order to achieve the above goals, all faculty members at the center are conducting research and clinical activities in the following three areas:

The center will be operated as part of Hyogo Medical University Hospital, and doctors who will be responsible for regional medical care will be regularly assigned to the center to train under the supervision of supervising doctors. By having doctors trained at the center work in various regions, it is expected that the quality of emergency medical care will improve not only in the Tanba Sasayama region, but also in other regions.