Questionnaire in 2013 (excerpts)
1. Did you experience anything useful in this training?
 HICARE Training Program was very informative as it covers all the necessary elements
for understanding the effects of radiation on the human body.
 Before I came to Hiroshima, I only had a vague image about the damage caused byA-bombing. However, seeing, feeling and hearing what really happened after thebombing, was an extremely valuable experience for me. I was also impressed with thesystematic medical care and support for A-bomb survivors in Japan.

2. For what purposes exactly are you going to use the knowledge and skills
that you have acquired through this training?
 Since our hospital receives many A-bomb survivors, I will share what I learned in thetraining with my hospital colleagues. I will be more considerate and sympathetic to mypatients who survived the A-bombing.
 I will share the knowledge I obtained in the training with my colleagues, and prepare
for possible radiation emergencies.

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?
 The duration of the training was ideal. I could efficiently visit many significant
institutions in a short time. Participating in the program with other doctors withdifferent specialties enabled us to learn from various points of view and to build a newnetwork.
 I am totally satisfied with the quality, curriculum, and duration of the training.

4. Stay in Hiroshima(1) What impression did you have of staying in Hiroshima?
 Hiroshima is a very friendly city and my hotel was in an ideal location serving very nicebreakfast. I enjoyed Okonomi-yaki at a restaurant, they welcomed me like a local.
 The lagoon city of Hiroshima with calm rivers is quiet and a beautiful place. People areso kind and generous. I felt that it was nothing but the efforts of citizens which madethe city which was reconstructed from the devastation by the A-bombing 68 years ago
into a sacred place.

(2) Please tell us about what you felt to be inconvenient during the stay in
Hiroshima.
 I felt no inconvenience except for a slight difficulty in communication in a different
language.
 I hoped to find more traffic signs and restaurant menus in English.

5. Impressions about the training I am so grateful to have been invited to such a wonderful training program. I hope thisprogram will continue for sharing the knowledge and skills which Hiroshima
accumulated with medical professionals around the world.
 HICARE Training has had a truly profound impact on me which I will never forget. Iwill definitely stay in touch with the doctors I met in the program. Please extend mywarm gratitude to the doctors and also to HICARE secretariat members who did a
fantastic job in arranging all this.
 The HICARE program was very efficient and informative with a diverse spectrum of
key persons in HICARE related organizations who participated as speakers anddemonstrators in such a short time of only 1 week. I know how hard it is to keep
continuing a program for more than 20 years but your team has been doing it!
Congratulations!! I hope this HICARE program continues for much more.