My Proposal for Future Pediatric Surgery in Japan

Abstract

The field of pediatric surgery in our country is recently obliged to face newly advancing problems such as the management of carry-over patients, fetal surgery and pediatric emergency. It has become to be almost impossible to deal with the variety of problems by the many independent pediatric surgery facilities individually under the present situation in Japan. Each facility and each pediatric surgeon must confront a drastic decrease in pediatric surgical cases because of the excessive increase in the number of facilities, which may make Japanese pediatric surgery less competitive both in clinical and research fields. To improve the current pathological situation of the pediatric surgery field in our country, we propose a re-organization and unification of the clinical and research facilities so as to build up comprehensive medical complex for clinics, research and education. We believe that an organic medical complex without barriers between facilities may provide a better opportunity for every young pediatric surgeon to achieve more competitive clinical and research work.