Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi
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Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi · Mar 2003
[The new Japanese board of surgery for general surgery specialists].
The postgraduate training and board certification system for general surgery has just reached a new era with the upgrading from the previous system for registered surgeons. The new system consists of first-step training of a minimum of 5 years (initially 4 years or more) covering general surgery, emergency medicine, and basic knowledge of subspecialties. ⋯ The new system of a general surgical training consists of a residency training program with registered hospitals and a minimum requirement of surgical experience. At this starting point, the Japan Surgical Society should take responsibility for this new training system, together with the related societies of subspecialties, in this new step for the official and adequate public qualification of surgeons.
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Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi · Mar 2003
[Compulsory postgraduate clinical training and surgical education].
In April 2004, a new training system for physicians and surgeons will take effect in Japan. All medical graduates, after passing the National Medical Practitioners Examination, are to complete a two-year compulsory clinical training program, which includes rotations to the clinical services of internal medicine, surgery, emergency medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, psychiatry, and regional primary practice. ⋯ The trainees will be provided with reasonable stipends. In accordance with the introduction of new system, the current surgical training system is to be renovated and the terms for surgical trainees to be eligible for surgical specialty boards must be reviewed.
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Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi · Mar 2003
[Specialist of general surgery and gastroenterological surgery].
The educational committee of the society of gastroenterological surgery made a rule that the specialist of gastroenterological surgery must have a title of a general surgeon which was approved by the educational committee of the Japan surgical society. This means that a specialist of gastroenterological surgery should be able to treat diseases in the area of the general surgery and should be able to do the primary cares for whole areas of gastroenterological diseases which are the upper and the lower intestinal diseases, hepato-bilial and pancreatic diseases in addition. ⋯ These two courses are proceeding in parallel. The essential contents of these two courses are overlapped, so these common contents may count as experiences for both courses respectively.
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Among all the other fields in medicine where safety and good quality are always expected, cardiovascular surgery is the one field where you are expected the most. Therefore cardiovascular surgeons should have an ability to deal adequately with a severe relationship between patients and surgeons. A long-term education after several years of basic surgery training is mandatory to be an authorized high quality cardiovascular surgeon. ⋯ In order to authorize general surgeons as well, basic surgery and general surgery should be separated. To avoid the world of cardiovascular surgery becoming the aging society, a long-term training of cardiovascular surgery should begin as early as possible after efficient short-term training of basic surgery. Meanwhile high income should be guaranteed for high risk/volume work.