[On line self-assessment system for psychiatry training program].

Abstract

A radical reform in Japan had been done on the postgraduate clinical training system since April 2004. The subject point of the change was that in the past, mainly in the University hospitals, where the postgraduate clinical training system was made by the Department of a resident's planned medical staff, to enter in the future; in the new system, resident is incorporated in a 2-year training program with contents of internal medicine, surgery and emergency, not just bounded to particular field, in order to master basic and general clinical abilities. This new system included psychiatry rotation for 1 to 3 months. The new postgraduate clinical training system is also expected for the hospital's side to become activated by remaining the clinical training system. As a matter of course, the System has given a great effort to the curriculums of medical education. This super rotation system will be evaluated in 5-year after the introduction. The problem is whether psychiatry rotation is effective or not in a new system. If not so, psychiatry rotation might be omitted in this system. Therefore, we psychiatrists will prepare for the evidence of the effectiveness of psychiatry rotation. I developed on line self-assessment system with reference to Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in the United States. I have introduced this system in the paper.