title: [Graduate medical education].
abstract: Present status and problems to be solved in graduate medical education for surgeons in Japan were described. To make graduate medical education be effective and valid, the author proposed to establish a agency like the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in the United States, which gathers and provides informations of characteristics of each programs and evaluates them.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery II, Kumamoto University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ogawa
mesh_terms: D002568:Certification; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends; D013502:General Surgery / Q000193:education*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan