Dr. N. L. Gault, Jr. (1920‐2008) and History of Medical Education in South Korea and Okinawa

[...]after Okinawa integrated back into Japan in 1972, concluding postwar US military administration, this valuable teaching hospital in Okinawa also needed to incorporate with traditional Japanese medical education, emphasizes and produces more specialists; however, the focus on generalists and generalism remains in Okinawa. The residency programs of these hospitals on mainland Japan are now considered to be role‐models and provide precious opportunities to learn globally standardized clinical medicine for young Japanese residents. While these programs continue to attract highly motivated Japanese residents at the national matching system, many established Japanese university hospitals appear resistant to change traditional teaching methods.