2021 Volume 56 Issue 4 Pages 359-362
The first kidney transplantation was carried out in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (1954. 12. 23., the night prior to Christmas Eve). The transplantation team at that time was composed of surgeon, nephrologist and urologist. In the U.S., the renal physician follows up many transplant patients even now. Although the U.S. has about 4,000 transplant physicians, there are few in Japan. The transplant physician’s training is behind that of the U.S. by about 40 years. In this paper, we demonstrate that a wide quest of transplantation physicians’ training and recruiting through the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine is mandatory in order to care the transplant recipients and living donors.
