Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi
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Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi · Apr 2003
[The relationship between surgical and its subspecialty boards in Japan].
This article deals with a 7-year endeavor to reform the board certification system of the surgical specialty and its subspecialties. The most important lesson learned is that the societies running the board must work not for the societies but for trainees and patients. The new postgraduate surgical training program is an overlapping system composed of a general surgery program of 5 years and optional subspecialty program of 7 years. ⋯ Those who pass it and experience 350 general surgery cases within 5 years are eligible for oral examination by the surgery board. Those who pass the written examination for general surgery and experience a certain number of subspecialty surgeries within 7 years after the start of training are eligible for the oral and/or written examinations for the subspecialty board. The surgical societies are responsible for constantly improving the quality of the surgical training programs and qualification systems so that board-certified surgeons are accepted and treated as true surgical specialists in this country.
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Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi · Apr 2003
[The new national postgraduate residency program and its relation to the general surgery board in Japan].
The new national postgraduate residency program has been proposed to start from 2004 after long-term discussion. This new program consists of 2 years super-rotating program with focusing onto the primary care. It requires basic clinical training in surgery for 3 months in the first year and extra 6 month can be used for optional period. ⋯ Also, a large number of postgraduate residents move from the University hospitals because the regulation sets the number of residents according to the hospital beds. There are various tasks and problems being proposed for these abrupt changes in the training system of doctors and especially for surgeons. This article summarized the interrelationship and problems with discussion.