Abstract
An importance of primary health care in ear, nose and throat clinic was discussed. In 1979, WHO proposed a concrete step for primary health care. And National Academy of Science of United States defined the characteristics of primary health care clearly as follows: accessibility, comprehensiveness, coodination, continuity and accountability. Then primary health care has been admitted in many developed countries.
Because of increasing of medical information or advanced medical technology, an integrated life long education has been needed to primary doctors. Literature which reported in United States showed that some of patients suffering from common ear, nose and throat disease as inflammatory disease in upper respiratory tract, tonsillitis or acute ear disease, visited to the primary doctors, family doctors or general physicians. Also, it has been thought that the nonear, nose and throat doctors who give a medical care to the patients with the disease as rhinitis, tonsillitis or otitis media are increasing in Japan. As increasing of these type of medical care has been forecasted in near future in our country, so it was stressed that ear, nose and throat doctors have to study an newly developed mediacal science or medical technology.
