Review

• Community care for individuals with borderline personality disorder in Japan: a narrative review
  Miwa Sasaki
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 237–244

Original Articles

• The impact of pre-employment education on self-efficacy in newly graduated nurses: evaluation of a collaborative workshop between academia and clinical practice
  Kohei Sekiguchi, Hirohito Nanbu, Masae Takamura, Koichi Yoshimura, Ai Ooyama, Yukari Katayama, Yasuyo Kusumoto
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 245–252
• A comparison between intensive care unit and surgical ward in clinical educators-related factors that influence clinical nursing competencies of new graduate nurses
  Toru Miyake, Masato Yoshioka, Midori Kaga, Hideaki Andoh
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 253–260
• Differences in health self-management behaviors among residents with illnesses across remote islands with different degrees of isolation from the mainland
  Natsumi Yamakawa, Rieko Nakao, Mayumi Ohnishi, Ryoko Kawasaki, Satoko Kosaka
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 261–268
• Communication features of ChatGPT responses and care-seeking intention for syphilis in Japan: a controlled dialogue experiment
  Fuka Nagano, Emi Furukawa, Shinya Ito
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 269–278
• Statistical approaches to make cardiac biomarkers compatible for efficient management of cardiovascular diseases in a regional medical care system
  Tokuyoshi Maruyama, Satoshi Sugawa, Satoshi Murakami, Sachi Amano, Sayaka Wakitani, Norihiro Nishimura, Naoto Hiraoka
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 279–287
• Challenges in the distribution of community pharmacists in depopulated areas in Japan
  Kazuhiro Iguchi, Kazuya Nonomura, Nana Takahashi, Hirofumi Tamaki, Arihiro Osanai, Kenichiro Ishii, Mitsuhiro Nakamura
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 288–295
• Dispatch of locum doctors to rural clinics on remote islands in Japan
  Miki Yamauchi, Akihisa Nakamura, Daisuke Matsubara, Kazuhiko Kotani
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 296–300
• Advance care planning in older adults presenting to a secondary-level emergency department in a Japanese regional city: a single-center retrospective cross-sectional study comparing home-dwelling vs. nursing-home residents
  Atsuo Nakamura, Masaharu Odo
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 301–307

Field Report

• Community-based participatory medical education in rural Japan: analysis of medical student learning needs through reflection sheets
  Shuntaro Matsuda, Ikki Nokita, Manabu Hayakawa, Yoshiro Itou
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 308–311

Case Reports

• Middle-shaft clavicle stress fracture in a non-athlete adult after excessive daily push-ups: a case report
  Yuki Ohnishi, Michael Koulopoulos, Matthew Scuderi
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 312–315
• Pyothorax-associated lymphoma mimicking chronic expanding hematoma
  Tomonori Ito, Kazuma Sugiura, Takuto Morishita, Shiori Nakagaki, Yoshitaka Hibino
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 316–320
• Invasive liver abscess syndrome with endophthalmitis caused by sepsis from urinary tract infection
  Hiroyuki Ariga, Iori Izumi, Naoki Iso, Kenta Okada, Junya Kashimura, Rie Ofusa, Yoshifumi Okamoto
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 321–325
• Pathological fracture of the fifth metatarsal bone from an extraosseous ganglion cyst
  Mon Gabriel Distor, Keiichi Muramatsu, Gayle Krystle Grey, Yo Morita, Yuto Ichimiya
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 326–330
• Successful emergency Hartmann procedure for perforated sigmoid colon cancer requiring splenic flexure mobilization under combined spinal-epidural anesthesia: a case report
  Takuya Mishina, Akihiro Yamada, Satoshi Kobayashi, Atsushi Sekimura, Takehiro Takagi, Takashi Maeda, Akihiro Hori
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 331–335
• Coexistence of thyroid sclerosing mucoepidermoid carcinoma with eosinophilia and mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue lymphoma in Hashimoto thyroiditis: a case report
  Yutaka Nakamura, Tetsuya Murata, Yuichi Fujita, Kazuyuki Kubo, Tetsuya Kitamura
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 336–342
• Mycobacterium haemophilum tenosynovitis of the thumb in an immunocompetent adult: a case report highlighting a diagnostic challenge
  Mariko Abe, Norihiko Terada
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 343–346

Letters to the editor

• Exploring ‘MoyaMoya’: a multidisciplinary case study workshop on emotional conflicts in clinical practice
  Seiichiro Nagai, Tatsuki Ikejiri, Mitsuru Kobayashi
  J Rural Med. 2026 Jul; 21(3): 347–349