University Education

• Japan:

  • EBM related education was limited to electives

• Europe:

  • EBM related education is part of core curriculum at many universities, but again mostly restricted to students taking a few courses in the area.

• Integration into core subjects still lacking.

  • Some European universities realize this problem, but falling enrollments has shifted their attention at the moment.
  • The broadness of EBM does not help - teaching from a systems perspective is difficult.

• The US lags Europe, but not too far, given the many initiatives at the K-12 level.

  • However, arguably the average US student lags his/her European and Japanese counterparts in the level of education in general when entering entering university.