The foundation of medical education in today's Japan is based on the ideas of pioneers who introduced psychosomatic medicine to Japan. Based on this premise, we reviewed the existing training methods and curriculum of psychosomatic medicine along with the transition of medical education for women at our medical school. During studying psychosomatic medicine relating to women's health, our most important realizations include an essential understanding of the overall effects on women's mental and

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... physiological states, and of hormonal changes due to the age of patients and specific female diseases. These findings make it possible to treat female patients accordingly. Above all, for this purpose we have designed curriculums for psychosomatic medicine with the focus on woman's health and by utilizing simulation workshops and clinical practical training. Our basic objective is to formulate the most appropriate curriculum for medical students and resident physicians, primarily focusing on the psychosomatic symptoms of periodic female hormonal changes and decreases in the female hormone level of perimenopausal patients with different psychological and social backgrounds. In summary we would like continuously to identify the overriding psychological and social circumstances through which medical personnel may learn to understand a patient's specific disease. We would also attach importance to the learning environment where medical persons may come to understand psychosomatic symptoms affecting patients and their measurable correlation to the mental state and the social background.