Tokyo Women's Medical University

School of Medicine

Gynecology

Overview

At the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Tokyo Women's Medical University, three hospitals, Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital, Adachi Medical Center, and Yachiyo Medical Center, are working as a team to provide medical treatment, research, and education. These three hospitals provide safe and secure advanced medical care as university hospitals through the exchanges between doctors, nurturing of obstetricians and gynecologists, and improving and complementing each other's skills.
This class practices team medicine. Several doctors, including students and supervising doctors, form a team, and other professionals such as nurses and pharmacists also join the team, sharing patient medical information and providing medical care in cooperation. In the team, the students learn the techniques and knowledge from senior doctors, acquire them as their own, and pass them on to their juniors. Based on this "roof-tiling" educational policy, we deepen cooperation between individuals and create teams with strong ties. In this class, we are engaged in medical treatment, education, and research with the motto of being the "classroom that trains obstetricians and gynecologists".

Education Details

The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology is divided into four fields: gynecological oncology, perinatal medicine, reproductive endocrinology, and women's medicine. Physicians who have completed initial residency and majored in obstetrics and gynecology in their senior residency undergo training in these four fields over the subsequent three years. In the sixth year, students aim to become obstetricians and gynecologists. At our hospital, we have doctors who will be instructors in these four fields, so residency doctors can be trained in all fields. We are also an accredited facility for acquiring subspecialties in each, and after acquiring specialization in obstetrics and gynecology, residents can aim for further specialization.
In the gynecology department, we perform many multidisciplinary treatments such as surgery and chemotherapy for malignant tumors. Above all, we put particular emphasis on learning surgical therapy, and provide a place for training in basic surgical techniques for students and trainees. Furthermore, minimally invasive surgery such as da Vinci surgery and laparoscopic surgery is actively used not only for benign disease surgery but also for malignant tumor surgery.

Research Details

In the field of gynecology, we primarily engage in research rooted in clinical practice. We are conducting research on pathological diagnosis of gynecologic cancer in collaboration with the Department of Pathology. In addition, we have conducted numerous clinical trials on treatment methods, leading to multicenter joint research. In addition, we are actively conducting research on ways to manage endometriosis and research on minimally invasive surgery, including robotic surgery. Furthermore, as basic research, we are conducting applied research in the field of obstetrics and gynecology of cell sheet engineering technology, which is one of the regenerative medicine technologies, mainly involving graduate students.

Faculty

Tsutomu Tabata
Jun Kumakiri
Hiroshi Funamoto
Yoshika Akizawa

Graduate School

It is possible to start graduate school at any time during the second half of training (OBGYN specialist). We are conducting research on the application of cell sheet engineering technology to gynecological practice at TWIns. The cell sheet is one of the generative medical technologies developed by the Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science at our university, in which cells are formed into a sheet and transplanted to the affected area. In the field of gynecology, this technology is used to regenerate endometrial cell sheets three-dimensionally on a culture dish with the aim of elucidating the implantation mechanism. Once this technology is established, it is expected to be applied to patients with endometrial disorders.

Related links

Research Achievements Database
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

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