2019 Volume 39 Issue 7 Pages 671-678
The anesthesiologist specialist system was founded by the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists（JSA）in October 1954, making it the oldest traditional specialist system in Japan. Meanwhile, the Japanese Medical Specialty Board（JMSB）was established in May 2014, and since FY2018 the specialist training program in the field of anesthesiology has been transferred to the specialist training course for anesthesiology of the JMSB. In FY2019, for the board-certified anesthesiologists of the JSA, the renewal process will be transferred to the JMSB sequentially. The new accreditation system and the updated standards of the JMSB will be discussed here.
