2020 Volume 69 Issue 1 Pages 95-100
A working group committee (young WG) for improving the internationalization of young biomedical laboratory scientists (BLSs) was established in 2018. Its purpose is to train young BLSs to think about what is necessary for improving their internationalization. We will introduce the details of the international young BLSs forum, which is the first event organized by the young WG at the 68th Japanese Association of Medical Technologists (JAMT) congress in Shimonoseki. There are three themes: “Will artificial intelligence be a useful tool for quality control in the future?”, “The evolving genomic medicine—The future image of genomic medicine”, and “The BLSs’ future vision of telemedicine”. Our team discussed the first theme across the nations. We looked into the problems and circumstances surrounding quality control (QC) before the forum, and then we discussed the possibility of AI as a tool to fight those problems during the forum. As one of our achievements, we made a presentation about what we should do after introducing AI technology, with some examples. We concluded that the action for the internationalization through this forum is an efficient way to improve the internationalization of young BLSs, and we are hopeful for the future actions arising from this forum.
