The training course for a doctor at the SCC consists of the following 2 programs: 1. the 3-year resident course for learning comprehensive cancer medicine, and 2. the 2-year chief-resident course for learning advanced and highly specialized cancer medicine at a specific clinical division. Chief resident is a trainee in accordance with the new specialist system established in 2018, with which the trainees have tended to choose the hospitals in big cities for their trainings and their number has been decreasing recently. On the other hand, it has been a critical issue for the SCC to secure enough number of chief residents for fostering the bearers of the hospital’s future, due to the need for continuously providing advanced and highly specialized medicine for ever-growing cancer patients. Therefore, the SCC have established new regulations for chief residents to improve their working conditions to let them go parallel with full-time doctors, although they are on the 2-year fixed-term employment. The improvement includes the yearly salary raise (around 8 or 900,000 yen) and the provisions of allowance for dependent and housing allowance. It is expected to secure a stable number of doctors, which contributes to the cancer control measures of Shizuoka prefecture with the SCC as a core hospital in terms of maintaining the quality of medicine as a leading cancer hospital in Japan and strengthening the system for cancer genomic medicine.
