Thu. May 16, 2019 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Room 1 (1F Main Hall)

Organizer:Nobutaka Hirooka(General Internal Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Japan)
Chair: Nobutaka Hirooka(General Internal Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Japan), Shunzo Koizumi(General Internal Medicine, Saitama Medical University, Japan)

Medical generalism in health care system from several countries will be presented. Based on their historic experience of medical generalism in each situation, issues and its potential solution for generalists’ clinical practice will be discussed. Also several important topics of our specialty such as efficient work with specialists and subspecialists in each system, subspecialty training for generalists, research directions will be elaborated. Discussion will take the Asian and Pacific regional issues such as disparity, rapid aging, rurality into considerations. This will create further discussion platform to talk how to enrich our specialty, generalist, in the future.
To achieve this aim of the session, guest speakers who have vast knowledge of generalism in different countries including Singapore, UK, USA, and Japan will be participate as speakers. Active and fruitful participation with audience after the presentation by the guest speakers will also be expected.



Nobutaka Hirooka
Training/practice/services
2016～present Associate Professor, Department of General Internal Medicine, Saitama Medical University
2015～2016 Director, Department of General Internal Medicine, Japan Self-Defense Force Central Hospital
2012～2015 Department of General Medicine, Japan National Defense Medical College
2009～2012 Faculty development fellow, Department of Family Medicine University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2008～2009 Japan Self Defense Force Central Hospital
2006～2008 Office of the US Army Surgeon General, Washington DC, USA
2004～2006 Department of Internal Medicine, National Defense Medical College
2001～2004 Family Medicine resident, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1999～2001 Internal Medicine Resident, National Defense Medical College
1997～1999 Camp Kumamoto, Japan Ground Self Defense Force
1995～1997 Internship, National Defense Medical College hospital

Medical Education/Training
Medical school Japan National Defense Medical College
Master of Science Clinical Research, University of Pittsburgh
PhD General Medicine, Juntendo School of Medicine



Shunzo Koizumi

Graduated from Kyoto University in 1971, he served general surgical residency in U.S. from 1975 to 1980 (first year at Youngstown Hospital Association, Ohio; second through fifth years, at St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Connecticut, a Yale affiliated program) and Board Certified in 1981. Since 1980, he OPrked at Tenri Hospital in Nara both as a general surgeon and co-director of residency program. In 1994, he was appointed as the Professor and Chairman of the Department of General Medicine, Saga University Hospital. In 2011, he inherited current practice.
He is a Fellow of American College of Surgeons, a member of Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), an Affiliate Fellow of American College of Physicians, a Board Member of Japanese Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare, Senior Advisor to Japan Primary Care Association and an Honorary Member of Japan Society for Medical Education. He represents “Choosing Wisely Japan” since 2016.