Outcome-based medical specialty training: Can it bridge the gap between theory and clinical practice?

Abstract

　The Japanese Medical Specialty Board has been established with the collaboration of medical and medical care organizations. It ensures the quality of medical specialists and achieves accountability to the people by certifying medical specialists and authorizing training programs. Outcome-based education is characterized by an emphasis on the quality assurance of trained physicians. Therefore, the new medical specialty training system could be constructed through outcome-based education. I give a brief overview of the new medical specialty training system, and it is discussed in the context of the guideline for medical specialty training system published recently.