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Abstract
Owing to the social structure issues caused by Japan’s super-aged society, health-care roles have become more complex, and the need for general physicians has increased. General hospitalists in Japan perform various roles. Thus, the ideal image of general hospitalists there has been unclear. We summarize the 10 key skills for Japanese hospitalists indicated in the specialty programs of the Japanese Society of Hospital General Medicine. We identified the following five crucial points for ideal general hospitalists: general mindset; leadership and management; community-based comprehensive care and cooperation with various professions; appropriate medical interviewing, physical examination, and diagnostic reasoning; and proactive education and academic activities. This paper presents five tips, which deal with why those items are necessary and how they should be learned.
Abbreviations
GM, general medicine; JSHGM, Japanese Society of Hospital General Medicine.
Acknowledgments
We thank Dr. Makoto Oura, Dr. Ken Goda, and Dr. Mai Hongo for their kind support for this work. We also thank Edanz for editing a draft of this manuscript.
Author Contributions
All the authors made a significant contribution to the work reported with respect to the conception, study design, execution, acquisition of data, analysis, and interpretation. All authors took part in drafting, revising, or critically reviewing the article, and they gave their final approval of the version submitted for publication. All the authors have agreed on the journal for submission and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work.
Disclosure
Masaki Tago is supported by grants from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, JSPS KAKENHI Grant Number JP18K17322 and JP21H03166. The sponsor of the study had no role in the preparation of the manuscript. The authors report no other conflicts of interest in this work.