Chapter Business Report 2017-2018: LNC

Local Nominations Committee

Nobuhito HIRAWA MD FACP

REPORT:

We recruited the candidate of new governor of ACP Japan Chapter. And we selected Dr. Kenji Maeda MD, FACP as the candidate of the next governor and reported it to ACP headquarter.

The following ACP members were selected to receive each award.

– Laureate Award

Yuko Takeda MD, FACP (ACP Number 1009004)

– Sakura Award of Excellence

Haruko Miyamoto (The former clerk of ACP Japan Chapter)

– Volunteerism Award

There is not an applicable person this year.

– ACP Japan Chapter Contribution Award

Yugo Shibagaki MD, FACP (ACP Number 1245920)

Soichiro Ando MD, FACP　 (ACP Number 1290215)

Harumi Gomi Yano MD, FACP　(ACP Number 1098937)

Eiji Shinya MD, FACP　(ACP Number 1064281)

Nobuhito Hirawa MD, FACP　 (ACP Number 1271684)

The shield or the commendation with a pin badge is conferred on the prize winner.

PLAN:

– Start to accept recommendations for 2019 Laureate Award, Volunteerism Award, Sakura Award of Excellence and ACP Japan Chapter Contribution Award.

– Start to search candidates for Mastership next year

June 9, 2018June 9, 2018

Chapter Business Report 2017-2018: SPC

Scientific Program Committee

Chair; Yugo Shibagaki, MD, FACP

Agenda 1 Organization 2017-18

Chair: Yugo Shibagaki

Vice-chair: Teruhisa Azuma, Sugihiro Hamaguchi

Members:

Masako Utsunomiya, Shungo Yamamoto, Yasuhiro Akai, Tsuguru Hatta

Hideaki Shimizu, Mikio Hayashi, Shunpei Yoshino, Sho Fukuoka, Atsuko Uehara

and Noriaki Kurita

Agenda 2 Chapter Business Report: June 2017 – Present (June 2018)

– ACP Japan Chapter Annual Meeting 2017 (http://www.acpjapan.org/acp2017/)

Last year, we held the ACP Japan Chapter Annual Meeting 2017 at the Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall and the Kyoto University International Innovation Center on June 10^th and 11^th, 2017. Since we expanded the venues (rooms) for the session, we could accommodate as many as 32 sessions (didactic sessions, workshops), 8 luncheon seminars, special sessions (Plenary session, Governor’s address, Dr’s Dilemma and ACP update), a poster session with almost 100 abstracts with best poster presentation on the following day, so we kept the number of the sessions which increased significantly every year since 2013. The Doctor’s Dilemma (Medical quiz session) attracted many contestants from hospitals all over Japan which ended with a much success and the some of the winners were selected as the members representing ACP Japan Chapter and just participated and did their best in the Doctor’s Dilemma held in Internal Medicine 2018 held in May, 2018 in New Orleans. The poster discussion was a very lively session with many participants with full of discussions. Three presenters with each representative of students, residents and young physicians were awarded and had a chance to give a presentation in the main hall the next day, applied to the Internal Medicine Meeting 2018 and seemed to get motivated by this wonderful experience. We had the immediate past president, Dr. Nitin Damle, who provided the educational talk at the plenary session and ACP update.

Agenda 3 Chapter Business Plan:

– Organizing the Annual Meeting 2018 of the ACP Japan Chapter (http://www.acp2018.org/)

On June 2nd and 3rd, 2018, we will organize the Annual Meeting 2018 of the ACP JC in Kyoto. Beginning last year, Kyoto University International Innovation Center was added to the venue of the Meeting as well as Kyoto University Clock Tower Centennial Hall to accommodate more attractive sessions and lectures. In fact, this year we accommodate 45 sessions with special sessions

The theme of the Meeting this year is “Mind & Arts as Essentials for Internists: Beyond Evidence and Technology”. We will address this very important issue in the plenary session, following the keynote lecture from the immediate past president of ACP, Dr. Jack Ende, with experienced physicians who practice medicine with mindfulness as guest speakers, discussing how we can raise the mindful care as well as technical part of medicine in the era of super-aging society with the frail elderly. In addition, we will offer sessions like Dr’s Dilemma (an inter-institutional Quiz tournament by teams of residents), the poster-discussion session, as well as the special talk by Dr. Jack Ende. This time, we also invite Dr. Muruganathan from India chapter of ACP to enhance the partnership with Asian chapters.

– Organizing the Annual Meeting 2019 of the ACP Japan Chapter

We are planning to hold ACP JC 2019 on June 1st and 2nd in Kyoto with the same venue as this year.

June 9, 2018June 9, 2018

Chapter Business Report 2017-2018: WC

Women’s Committee:

Chair; Noriko Yamamoto MD, FACP, Yamamoto Clinic

Co-Chair; Noriko Kawashima, MD, FACP, Kawashima Neurology Clinic

Members; Keiko Arai MD, FACP, Arai Clinic

Yuko Morishima MD, FACP, Division of Clinical Medicine Department of Pulmonary Medicine, University of Tsukuba

Eri Kimura,MD,Iizuka hospital

Report;

We has started the activity of Women’s committee on late July 2017.

We hold the panel Discussion at the annual session of ACP Japan Chapter (Today)

3 Women’s Leader talk and discuss important and tough subjects what young female doctors take great interest . They will give many tips to young doctors and medical students.

*We opened a page of Facebook as ACP Japan Women’s Committee(Closed Group)

Plan;

Next year we will hold a session to encourage young female doctors and students

In the annual session of ACP Japan chapter.

We will recruit some members this year.( es,young doctors and medical students)

We will have a plan to make a networking of female doctors and medical students in ACP Japan Chapter. We will be able to have mentorship among the chapter in the future. We also will utilize our facebook page.

June 4, 2018June 6, 2018

In the Clinic Japnese translation project. How to incorporate In the Clinic in daily practice: 5 minutes bedside teaching

Dr. Kitano : St. Marianna University Yokohama City Seibu Hospital, Emergency and Critical Care Medicine

5-minutes teaching held on 3rd Jun 2018 at Kyoto

In the Clinic Japanese Translation Project has been in progress which is one of the leading project of PRC (public relations committee). There have been more applicants than the actual slots for the translation teams. The first translated article of In the Clinic, which is HCV, has been posted on the ACP main chapter’s webpage this April. Through this project, our goal is to have the members of ACP Japan Chapter to be able to utilize the excellent ACP resources including In the Clinic.
At this year’s annual meeting, we have presented a practical workshop with the collaboration of ‘In the Clinic Translation Project’ and ‘Bedside 5-minute Teaching’ We prepared the 12 general rules = Bedside 5-munite Teaching, which are based on 6 articles of In the Clinic.
In this practical workshop, participants have output the Bedside 5-munites Teaching and at the end of the seminar, they appeared to find themselves be able to use the rules as part of their active knowledge in the clinical setting. We hope this workshop served as an eye-opener to get one out of a lifelong sense of insufficiency where one feel he/she is not acquiring active knowledge even with a lot of literature reading.

症例の型を説明する講師

May 19, 2018May 19, 2018

Bug-fixing update of WordPress

The contents management system of the ACP Japan communication server, WordPress has been successfully udated to version 4.9.6.

(PRC chair Dr. Oshima)

May 16, 2018May 16, 2018

Governor’s Message

Toward the Next Stage of ACP Japan Chapter

Fumiaki Ueno, MD, MACP, MACG, AGAF

Governor for ACP Japan Chapter

I am delighted to announce that Dr. Kenji Maeda assumed the Governor-elect for ACP Japan Chapter as of 21 April 2018, at the ending of ACP Internal Medicine Meeting in New Orleans. He will assume the Governor for our Chapter in April 2019. Dr. Maeda is one of the founding members of the ACP Japan Chapter, and has served as the officer for the Chapter for years. His contribution to the Chapter has been tremendous. Although he is a busy practicing physician, he attends ACP IMM every year, and organizes valuable social functions for attendees from Japan and guests from national office. Current good relationships between the ACP headquarter and our Chapter would be impossible without his effort.

The Japan Chapter was established in 2003, as the first ACP Chapter away from American Continent. Led by Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, the founding Governor, the Chapter developed steadily during his term for eight years. Dr. Shotai Kobayashi succeeded as the next Governor, and the Chapter grew further. The most significant event of the Chapter is the Annual Chapter Meeting, and this has been true learning opportunity to obtain updated knowledge and skills in internal medicine worldwide. We attracted many brilliant physicians, trainees and medical students, and our membership is continuously growing, not only quantitatively, but also qualitatively.

My term as the Governor will end in April 2019. With the support of enthusiastic advisory councils, Dr. Maeda will take a good leadership for the Chapter for the next four years. I just cannot wait for the next stage of the ACP Japan Chapter.

April 17, 2018April 20, 2018

from International Exchange Program Committee

■International Exchange Program Committee

1. What we Accomplished

a. Clinical observership at Olive View Medical Center, University of California, Los Angeles was initiated in 2012, and ended as of August 2017. Since 2012 until the end of the program, there had been a total of sixteen observers through this program.

b. Drs. Masayuki Nogi and Jinichi Tokeshi, and other supportive local physicians at Department of Medicine, University of Hawaii kindly offered clinical observership for our two members in November 2017 and February 2018, respectively.

c. The committee has created evaluation criteria (evaluation sheet) for the candidates’ CVs and personal statement.

d. Mentorship has been introduced for each observer before, during, and after the observership.

e. An Email list serve for the alumni members of this program, committee members, and the ACP council members has been launched for a weekly report from the Olive View Medical Center by observers.

2. What We Were Already Working On

a. Revision of credential evaluation/support for the candidates

3. What We Initiated

a. More strategic recruitment for the candidates of the observership.

b. New members who are still early in their career (such as Drs. Yuji Yamada, Emily Muranaka) joined this committee to support the members to obtain international medical experiences.

c. After the obsevership at Olive View Medical Center, University of California, Los Angeles ended, our committee tried to find any new programs for clinical observership and Dr. Takahiko Tsutsumi significantly has contributed to explore and support the clinical observership program at University of Hawaii.

d. The committee will organize a seminar to help early career physicians understand clinical and research experiences they could have in international settings for physicians in early career at the annual meeting of ACP Japan Chapter in June 2018.

Seminar Notice

International Exchange Program Committee

ACP Japan Chapter Annual Meeting

Luncheon seminar

Time: 11:40-12:40, Saturday, June 2, 2018

“Why not pursue a global career path?”

Held by International Exchange Program Committee

March 26, 2018March 26, 2018