Subspecialty Specialist System in the Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine

Abstract

The medical specialist program for basic diagnosis and treatment departments started under the Japanese Medical Specialty Board in April 2018. The Japanese Society of Intensive Care Medicine is a subspecialty of two basic areas of the Japanese Society of Anesthesiologists and the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine, and preparations are underway for it to start in 2021. In the new specialist system, intensive care specialists are a subspecialty of anesthesiology and emergency departments but should not be limited to these departments. Therefore, it is necessary to seek the understanding of related academic societies and the Japanese Medical Specialty Board so that intensive care specialists can be recognized as a subspecialty of other specialists.