[The Tohoku Next-Generation Cancer Professional Training Plan-Results, Problems and the Future Prospects]

"The Tohoku next-generation cancer professional training plan"that Tohoku University, as the base university, applied for and was adopted in cooperation with Yamagata University, Fukushima Medical University, Niigata University was conducted with a grant for 5 years by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. We built postgraduate education system by the cooperation between these 4 universities and trained the cancer healthcare worker of the Tohoku district. As an education base, we established 57 courses in total in 3 courses consisting of(1)oncologist training course, (2)the cancer health professional training course for medical staffs except the physician(, 3)intensive training courses specialized in cancer. We realized the education curriculum which was necessary for specialized qualification by the original e- learning(Tohoku University Internet School)and the training in each university cooperation hospital in 4 university's original lecture systems. In 5 years, 56(36.8% of aim achievement quotients), 49(69.0% of aim achievement quotients)and 4,554 people studied in the oncologist training course, the cancer health professional training course for medical staffs except the physicians and the oncologist training course, respectively. As a result, we contributed to the improvement of the cancer medical level in this area. For measures to the new cancer medical field such as cancer genomic medicine and cancers of children and the AYA generation, the training of the healthcare worker specialized in a cancer is necessary continuously.