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Postgraduate education is essential to make uniformity and to maintain standard level concerning endoscopy techniques in the field of gastroenterology. To understand the present condition, questionaire was sent to all members of the Japanese Society of Gastroenterological Endoscopy (JSGE) and some nonmembers who had interests about endoscopy. Because of the short period for sufficient evaluation, collection rate was 34.9% including 3, 312 members and 470 nonmembers. In the age distribution of members, more than half was less than 40, which is prominent especially in the unversity hospital and public hospital where about 60% members worked for (Figure 1). Of these, about 2/3 of members were attached to the department of medicine and fulltimer in the endoscopy unit was extremely a few. As the postgraduate training is thought to be necessary in younger doctors (especially in less than age of 40) who attached to the hospital and whole doctors who attached to the clinic, those two groups were picked up as following ; hopital group and clinic group both in members and nonmembers respectively (Table 1-4). Each groups showed similar answers; most of them have learned techniques of endoscopy during working for their hospital (Table 5) but they wished to recieve additional training in the other teaching institutes apart from their hospital or clinic. Plan of technical training in the university hospital was poor against expectation and was similar to postgarduate course during the annual meeting or officially promoted seminar (Table 6). Intension to the authorized endoscopist was prominently high in member's hospital group (Table 7). In conclusion, it is suggested that JSGE has to be prepared various degree of educa-tional programs for endoscopy training through the hospital practice, meeting and seminar after JSGE policy for continuous education to members was stated clearly.

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