Shonan Fujisawa Junior and Senior High School ── "Health" Classes in the Senior High School Taught by Doctors ──

At Shonan Fujisawa Junior and Senior High School, doctors from the Keio University Health Center are in charge of the weekly "Health" classes for 5th-year students (2nd-year senior high school students). These are among the flagship classes of Shonan Fujisawa Junior and Senior High School, where "teachers = doctors" who have professionally studied medical sciences speak realistically and essentially based on their experiences as physicians.

The year-round curriculum follows a "100-year life starting from a fertilized egg," where 17-year-old students reflect on their lives so far and imagine themselves up to the age of 100 while considering "health" at each life stage. In particular, when potential future "illnesses" are discussed realistically by the "doctors = teachers," or when delicate topics regarding "sexuality" are discussed with high professional expertise by the "doctors = teachers," it ignites the students' motivation to learn about health. Many students realize that the lesson content is a reality surprisingly close to them, listening to the lectures very intently and working hard on their assignments.

The "teachers = doctors" in charge aim to foster the "ability to think and prevent for oneself" regarding health disorders and lifestyle-related diseases that may occur now or in the future. Furthermore, they are conscious of realizing "health education, relationship education, and life/economic education" centered on "Health" as a subject, striving to make the classes both what they want to teach as doctors and what the students want to learn. It is no exaggeration to say that this is a luxurious class that could only be realized because it is a Keio University affiliated school free from so-called university entrance exam coaching, and specifically because it is Shonan Fujisawa Junior and Senior High School, which requires students to study all subjects equally.