Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi
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Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi · May 2009
[Postgraduate training and specialty certification systems in pediatric surgery in Japan].
Board-certified pediatric surgeons and instructors less than 65 years old in Japan total 244 and 211, respectively. Board-certified general surgeons wishing to become board-certified pediatric surgeons must be able to perform an additional 150 pediatric surgical procedures. In addition, board-certified pediatric surgeons wishing to maintain board certification must perform 100 pediatric surgeries in each 5-year period. ⋯ Because of the low number of pediatric surgeries performed, young pediatric surgeons need to share surgical opportunities. Board-certified instructors should discuss how to teach young pediatric surgeons in university and children's hospitals, dispatch them to suburban and rural clinical hospitals, and help them maintain a good quality of life in busy hospitals. Postgraduate training and specialty certification systems in pediatric surgery for the near future are described.
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Nihon Geka Gakkai zasshi · May 2009
[Board-certifying systems of the Japan Surgical Society and subspecialty surgical societies].
In postgraduate training courses to develop superior surgeons with both general and subspecialty surgery competence, board-certifying systems play an important role as guideposts. The board-certified surgeon designation of the Japan Surgical Society as the first guidepost has provided the foundations for board-certified surgeon systems of subspecialty surgical societies as the second guidepost. A committee consisting of representatives from nine surgical societies has been working actively to make these board-certifying systems more reasonable and consistent.