Activities in Japan
Approximately 80 highly motivated medical representatives (MRs) repeat visits to doctors and medical institutes all over Japan based in 9 regional branches and supply update information and supportive materials related to the products. Promotional activities by MRs are firmly supported by the Medical Information Department where several professional service staff search, analyze, edit and provide scientific/medical information on the products and their target diseases. For liver diseases in which SNMC® is used as a drug of choice, the Company has organized an in-house advisory board and an in-field doctors network consisting of leading hepatology specialists through which scientific and medical advice and orientation for promotional works are provided to support the Company's expertise and professional service.
Since 1956, rarely in the industry the Company has been issuing and circulating to doctors all over Japan a company medical journal Minophagen Medical Review (once in two months) which contain selected medical topics of high academic and scientific standard. Also, as one of the professional service activities the Company organizes and sponsors a series of radio broadcasting programs of medical education propagating update medical knowledge on different diseases to medical students and general public.
