Local News

Japan has a system it inaugurated to prevent too many new doctors from taking advanced training in the country’s big cities by placing limits on the number of trainees that could be solicited in a single hospital or prefecture. The number of trainees who chose Kyushu institutions this year totaled 734, a decline of 52, or 6.6%. It is the lowest number that chose Kyushu since the system began in 2004. There were declines in every prefecture, and the declines have continued for several years in Fukuoka, Saga, Kumamoto, and Miyazaki prefectures.