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Chair: Sugihiro Hamaguchi, MD, FACP
Fukushima Medical University
What We Accomplished
We planned and held the ACP Japan Chapter Annual Meeting 2018 at Kyoto University. We attracted almost 700 participants with approximately 40 sessions and 100 abstracts. We invited Dr. Jack Ende, the immediate past president of ACP, and has a constructive discussion with eager participants about “Mind & Arts as Essentials for Internists” in the plenary session. The new session, Kurokawa Award, a competition of clinical research presentations, gained a large amount of attention and gave an initial push for increasing academic atmosphere into the annual meeting.
What We Are Working On
We are preparing for the upcoming ACP Japan Chapter Annual Meeting 2019 at the same venues. The theme of the 2019 meeting is “Fostering Lifetime Fundamental Competences for Internists －Beyond Board Certification System－”. The board certification system has been recently revised in Japan and how to integrate mind and experience of general internal medicine into the system remains a great matter of debate in Japan where most medical residents strive to become a life-time specialist. We will have Dr. Robert M. McLean who is the president of ACP to discuss “the wider the general basis, the higher the special peak as a specialist” in plenary lecture before the plenary session with Japanese seasoned physicians.
In addition, we will offer many attractive sessions. The Lecture Marathon starting with Latest Paper reviews is a new session where a summary of the up-to-date papers will be introduced first followed by many short lectures on basic internal medicine will be provided. A special lecture concerning the nuclear plant disaster operation in Fukushima after the East Japan Earthquake will be presented by Dr. Kurokawa. We have also planned the same sessions that are popular in the previous meeting: Dr’s Dilemma (an inter-institutional Quiz tournament by teams of residents), MKSAP, and Kurokawa Award for poster session.
Many attendants will enjoy and learn a lot from English-speaking sessions as well.
We are sure that the increasing number of attendants will be expected to the 2019 meeting with plenty of attractive sessions.
When the meeting in this year will be held?
Thank you for your interest. The meeting will be held on 8 and 9 Jun 2019.
Please refer the official site (http://www.acpjapan.org/acp2019/index.html).
For further information, please contact our office. Thank you for your patient.
very good blog, very useful for the information and the structure of the writing style, I will come back again for more information
Thanks for your comments. Not at this time, but we will continue to update this information on our main website. If you would like, you can refer to that as well.
http://www.acpjapan.org/