It was unfortunate that we couldn’t attend the ACP 2022 Annual Meeting in Chicago (IMM 2022) at the end of April due to the Covid-19 restrictions. But you should find good things in a bad situation – as it was held in a hybrid style, we could see some of the lectures online, although time difference was a limiting factor. Many sessions were recorded and are available for several months after the meeting so that you can watch some of them later.
The 2023 ACP Annual Meeting will be held at the end of April 2023 in San Diego. I hope that next year there will be many physicians from Japan at the meeting. Start planning now!
Let’s talk about our Chapter’s Scientific Meeting 2022. It will be held completely online on Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th this month. Some of the sessions will be distributed on-demand to the participants during some period after the meeting so that you can view sessions you missed.
With Covid-19 still a present threat to our health and well-being, please remember to take care of yourselves and take time to treasure those who are most dear in your lives.
ACP日本支部Physician’s Well-being Committee（以下、PWC）からACP会員の皆さまにご報告です。この度、PWCからWork-related stress and coping methods of internists and primary care physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: A mixed-method study”の論文がJournal of General and Family Medicine誌で出版されましたのでご報告させて頂きます。調査にご協力頂いた皆様に心より御礼申し上げます。
お世話になっております。ACP日本支部Physician’s Well-being Ad-hoc Committee（以下、PWC）の野中沙織と申します。このたび、PWCの研究チームから「Prevalence of Burnout among Internal Medicine and Primary Care Physicians before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan」という論文がInternal Medicine誌に掲載されましたので、ご報告させていたただきます。
Harumi Gomi, MD, FACP, FIDSA, AFAMEE, (second from right) joins colleagues at a recent national annual infectious disease conference in her hometown of Okayama, Japan.
Harumi Gomi, MD, FACP, FIDSA, AFAMEE
— OCCUPATION —
Professor, Office of Medical Education and Center for Infectious Diseases, International University of Health and Welfare, School of Medicine, Narita, Japan— MEDICAL SCHOOL —
Okayama University Medical School, Okayama, Japan— RESIDENCY —
Okayama Red Cross Hospital, Okayama, Japan, and Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
Although she was born, raised, and attended medical school in Japan, Dr. Harumi Gomi dreamed of doing her medical residency in the United States. She studied and worked in Dartmouth, NH, New York City, Baltimore, Houston, and Springfield, IL, before returning to Japan to teach medical students a different way of examining patients.
What inspired you to become a physician?
My interest began when I was 4 or 5 years old and I watched a TV program showing surgeries. It was truly exciting to me, and I started to dream about becoming medical doctor. My major turning point came in high school, when I met Yuko Ishizaki, who was medical student at the time and just a bit older than me. She explained how much she was enjoying medical school and she completely convinced me to pursue a career in medicine. We’ve been very good friends in the 35 years since then. She’s a professor of pediatrics in Osaka and we still meet occasionally and talk about our personal and professional lives.
ACP日本支部Physician’s Well-being Committee（以下、PWC）からACP会員の皆さまにご報告です。この度、PWCから”Burnout, depression, anxiety, and insomnia of internists and primary care physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: A cross-sectional survey”の論文がAsian Journal of Psychiatry誌で出版されましたのでご報告させて頂きます。調査にご協力頂いた皆様に心より御礼申し上げます。
Akira Kuriyama, Kiyoshi Shikino,Mitsuru Moriya, Michito Sadohara, Saori Nonaka, Kazuya Nagasaki, Yoshito Nishimura, Takahiro Matsuo, Kumiko Muramatsu, Tetsuya Makiishi. Burnout, depression, anxiety, and insomnia of internists and primary care physicians during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan: A cross-sectional survey. Asian Journal of Psychiatry. 2022.
