title: Establishing pulmonary and critical care medicine as a subspecialty in China: joint statement of the Chinese thoracic society and the American college of chest physicians.
abstract: This commentary heralds the recognition in China of a new subspecialty, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, and the first national fellowship training pathway in any medical specialty. Because of striking environmental health-care similarities that existed in the United States, the Chinese medical community decided to model the specialty after that in the United States. Because of its expertise in educating pulmonary and critical care physicians in the United States, the American College of Chest Physicians was chosen by the Chinese Thoracic Society, with the approval of the Chinese government, to help with the transformation of this new specialty. A work group representing the two societies is collaborating to reorganize ICUs within a select group of large teaching hospitals in China and to introduce standardized and rigorous training in pulmonary and critical care medicine as a national program.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
authors.forename: Renli
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Qiao
authors.affiliation: American College of Chest Physicians, Northbrook, IL; Department of Medicine, Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, Hempstead, NY.
authors.forename: Mark J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Rosen
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical College, Guangzhou Institute of Respiratory Diseases, Guangzhou, China.
authors.forename: Rongchang
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Sinan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.affiliation: American College of Chest Physicians, Northbrook, IL; Division of Respirology, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
authors.forename: Darcy
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Marciniuk
authors.affiliation: Chinese Thoracic Society, Beijing Hospital, Ministry of Health, Beijing Institute of Respiratory Medicine, National Clinical Research Centre for Respiratory Medicine, Beijing, China. Electronic address: cyh-birm@263.net.
authors.forename: Chen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Members of the CTS-ACCP Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Workgroup are listed in e-Appendix 1.
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D003422:Critical Care; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000379:methods; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D006801:Humans; D015272:Pulmonary Medicine / Q000193:education; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014481:United States