[10/1 online lecture! ] About service dogs that future doctors want to know (Japan Service Dog Association)

(Company Fuku) Japan Service Dog Association (hereinafter referred to as the Association) (https://s-dog.jp/) will start on October 1, 2021 (Friday) at Yokohama City University (https:// www.yokohama-cu.ac.jp/index.html), an online lecture on service dogs was held for third-year medical students. The association has conducted more than 300 educational and public relations activities for service dogs, such as events and lectures, but since last year, due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, such educational opportunities have been canceled one after another. Therefore, we have been actively accepting and conducting online lectures for companies, organizations and students. In the lecture, Dr. Tomoko Takayanagi (Executive Director of the Association) explained support and rehabilitation for persons with disabilities, including an explanation of service dogs, the Act on Assistance Dogs for Physically Disabled Persons, and rehabilitation using service dogs. In addition, Lemon, a service dog PR dog, will give a real-time demonstration on the screen, showing the work of a service dog, such as picking up objects, opening the refrigerator and taking a bottle, searching for a mobile phone and bringing it back. Through the work of assisting a service dog, we promoted understanding of the challenges in daily life of people with physical disabilities. At the end of the lecture, Mr. Tomoki Fujiwara, a service dog user from Okayama, talked about the words of a doctor who was involved when he broke his neck bone during surfing, when he was undergoing rehabilitation, and his own feelings, and then about adaptive surfing. He returned to surfing as a child, introduced his thoughts on becoming a world bronze medalist, living with his service dog Daikichi, and the importance of parasports, with videos. Takayanagi, who gave a lecture, said, "Rehabilitation is what makes things that are impossible with disabilities possible. Human beings have limitless power. I want you to become a doctor who thinks if it were you." There are many things I don't understand. I want you to become a doctor who guides patients so that they can return to the best condition," he delivered a passionate message to the students. Every year at Yokohama City University School of Medicine, we have Dr. Tomoko Takayanagi lecture on the activities of service dogs as a special lecture on the last day of the clinical medicine lecture on rehabilitation science that is held for third-year medical students. Professor Tomoko Takayanagi's lecture teaches the importance of medical care that is considerate of the feelings of people with disabilities (patients) through the activities of service dogs. This is a class that all medical students should take. It is a dog that has been specially trained for the independence and social participation of physically handicapped people, and it can be ordered according to the needs of each user, such as "picking up dropped items" and "opening and closing doors". They are trained by maids, undergo national certification tests together with users, and are certified for the first time. Social Welfare Corporation Japan Service Dog Association Administrative Department Public Relations G045-476-9005info@s-dog.jp