Program
April 2025 – March 2027
Development and Evaluation of Educational Materials for Fostering Reflective Practice by AI-Informed Instructors in Healthcare
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)
Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), Category C
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-25K13411/
July 2025 – March 2026
The Influence of Medical Students’ Empathy on Motivation and Burnout Resilience in Participatory Clinical Clerkships and Academic Learning: An Analysis and Proposal Using Machine Learning
Fujiwara Memorial Foundation
2025 Young Investigator Research Grant
April 2024 – March 2027
A National Survey and Intervention Study on Education to Foster Empathy in Medical Students and Their Orientation Toward General Practice
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Fundamental Research (C)
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/ja/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-24K13315/
April 2021 – March 2025
Development of Harassment Scales in STEM Academia
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) Fundamental Research (B)
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21H03171/
(Professor Kataoka, Vice Center Director of CMEI, serves as a Collaborator in the Research)
April 2021 – March 2024
Analysis of the Impact of Support for Female Physicians on Workplace Awareness, Working Styles, and Community Healthcare
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) Fundamental Research (C)
https://kaken.nii.ac.jp/en/grant/KAKENHI-PROJECT-21K01860
(Professor Kataoka, Vice Center Director of CMEI, served as the Principal Investigator)
Introduction to Medical Education Research
Dialogue with the public: A catalyst for professional identity formation in medical students.
Masashi Ikuno, Akiko Tokinobu, Tomoko Miyoshi, Hitomi Kataoka
PloS one 20(6) e0324506 2025
Effectiveness of professional-identity-formation and clinical communication-skills programs on medical students’ empathy in the COVID-19 context: comparison between pre-pandemic in-person classes and during-pandemic online classes.
Kataoka H, Tokinobu A, Fujii C, Watanabe M, Obika M
BMC Medical Education 25(1) 39 January 9, 2025
Eleven years of data on the Jefferson Scale of Empathy – medical student version: Japanese norm data and tentative cutoff scores
Hitomi U. Kataoka, Akiko Tokinobu, Chikako Fujii, Mayu Watanabe, Mikako Obika
BMC Medical Education 23(1) 81-81 February 2, 2023
Differences in Stress Perception of Medical Students Depending on In-Person Communication and Online Communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Japanese Cross-Sectional Survey.
Kazuki Tokumasu, Yoshito Nishimura, Yoko Sakamoto, Mikako Obika, Hitomi Kataoka, Fumio Otsuka
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 20(2) January 15, 2023
Representation of Gender and Postgraduate Experience Among Professional Medical Society Boards in Japan.
Takashi Watari, Ashwin Gupta, Hitomi Kataoka
JAMA Network Open 5(12) e2247548 December 1, 2022
Practicing Internal Medicine in Regional Healthcare: Specific Activities and Career Formation in Regional Medicine.
Hitomi Kataoka
Journal of the Japan Society of Internal Medicine 111(5) 971-976 May 2022
The effect of Humanitude care methodology on improving empathy: a six-year longitudinal study of medical students in Japan.
Yusuke Fukuyasu, Hitomi U Kataoka, Miwako Honda, Toshihide Iwase, Hiroko Ogawa, Masaru Sato, Mayu Watanabe, Chikako Fujii, Jun Wada, Jennifer DeSantis …
BMC Medical Education 21(1) 316-316 June 4, 2021
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Psychological Distress of Medical Students in Japan: Cross-sectional Survey Study.
Yoshito Nishimura, Kanako Ochi, Kazuki Tokumasu, Mikako Obika, Hideharu Hagiya, Hitomi Kataoka, Fumio Otsuka
Journal of Medical Internet Research 23(2) e25232 February 18, 2021
[Medical Education in the Pandemic Era – Ongoing Practical Reports -] Online Education for Fifth-Year Medical Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Professionalism and Behavioral Science Education Using Online Platforms.
Tomoko Miyoshi, Masaomi Yamane, Yoshinori Ozaki, Hitomi Kataoka, Yuuya Yokota, Eiko Mitsuta, Kanako Ochi, Mikako Obiga, Hideo Ino, Akihiro Matsukawa.
Medical Education 51(3) 279-281 June 2020
Effects on postgraduate-year-I residents of simulation-based learning compared to traditional lecture-style education led by postgraduate-year-II residents: a pilot study.
Akira Yamamoto, Mikako Obika, Yasuhiro Mandai, Taku Murakami, Tomoko Miyoshi, Hideo Ino, Hitomi Kataoka, Fumio Otsuka
BMC medical education 19(1) 87-87 March 20, 2019
