qualifications: MEd
contribution: wrote the first draft
position: Senior Lecturer
JapanAffiliation:Department of Medical Education, Kanazawa Medical University. Profession:General practice and Paediatrics. Interest:Community-based Medical Education
qualifications: PhD
contribution: wrote the first draft
position: Professor
JapanMasatoshi Matsumoto is the professor of rural health at Hiroshima University, Japan. He is a general practitioner who worked for some years in the least populated mountain village in rural Japan. He has taught rural health at Jichi Medical University, the Japanese medical school founded solely for producing rural doctors, for more than ten years. His academic interests are rural health policy, rural medical education, medical anthropology and rural community-based epidemiology.
