1. Did you experience anything useful in this training?
 I have been able to understand the physical, biological and mental impacts of exposure
to radiation from A-bombs.

2. For what actual purposes are you going to use the knowledge and skills thatyou have acquired through this training?
 I had thought that we should avoid being exposed to radiation no matter what. Now I
understand that I can look after patients by controlling the risk of exposure to aminimum if needed, and I would like to teach this knowledge to other nurses.
 I would like to be a nurse who can provide mental care in addition to physical care topatients, who are vulnerable to mental damage.

3. Please tell us your opinion of this training in order to improve HICARE’sprojects. What do you think of the curriculum and the length of thistraining?
 I highly appreciate the training of targeting nurses.
 I was amazed by seeing doctors at Hiroshima University Hospital Advanced Emergency
and Critical Care Center and Department of Radiation Oncology do their rounds inperson.
 I appreciate staff members for arranging the efficient training schedule, in which
lessons of prominent busy doctors were included.

4. Stay in Hiroshima(1) What impression did you have of living in Hiroshima Hiroshima citizens appeared to consider their historical tragedy as a cultural heritage
so as to ring the alarm continuously to all human beings on the earth rather thanwriting off what they experienced as a pathetic calamity.
 I found that people in this city are so considerate that I did not hear one horn on thestreet. This is amazing for me because driving in Korea is terrible and difficult,especially for female drivers.

(2) Please tell us about what you felt to be inconvenient during the stay in
Hiroshima.
 Since HICARE’s staff members had provided a broad range of information in advance, I
did not have a big problem even when I had to act on my own.

5. Impressions about the training Although before participating in this training I had thought HICARE to be anorganization focusing on research and treatment only of people who were exposed toA-bomb radiation in the past, I found through this training that it strives to spreadtheir activities systematically and constructively.
 I was surprised at HICARE’s broad range of activities. It is engaged in not only financial
compensation for hibakusha but also international cooperation in which they share theinformation and experience that they have accumulated in their activities, including
prevention and early treatment of disease, promotion of health, operation of nursing
homes and continuous research on the long-term impact of radiation on the human bodynot to mention its results with international trainees whom HICARE invites to Japan.
 Touched by Dr. Kamata’s philosophy, I started looking back on my life as well as thistraining. Wordsworth said, “There are in our existence spots of time, that with distinct
pre-eminence retain a renovating virtue.” What I experienced in this five-day training
in Hiroshima may become a happy “spot of time” in my life, awakening my passion formedicine.
 I felt as if I were rescued by Dr. Tanigawa from ignorance about radiation, like thepatients whose lives he saved by riding a helicopter in Fukushima. Now I would be able
to support a rescue operation without fear derived from ignorance if a radioactive
accident ever occurs in Korea, where 23 nuclear plants operate I did not find a shadow of grief at the past tragedy on the faces of residents in thenursing home that I visited in this training. I found that the quality of nursing service
in a developed country is represented by not only the home’s excellent environment but
also the hospitality extended by its staff members.