About the Hinohara Fellowship
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.
To hear from previous fellows about their experience, please click here.
Call for Applications
Coming soon! We will soon begin accepting applications for the 2027 Fellowship Program, a 1-year fellowship starting in July or September 2027. Please send inquiries to yu-takeda@juntendo.ac.jp. Additional information can be found here.
Selection Committee Members
- Machiko Inoue - Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine
- Tamami Umeda - Visiting Researcher, National Center for Global Health and Medicine
- Junji Otaki - Visiting Professor, Tokyo Medical University / Tama Zenshoen
- Shintaro Kosaka - Chief, General Internal Medicine, Nerima Hikarigaoka
- Yuko Takeda - Professor, Department of Medical Education, Juntendo University & Chair of the Committee
