On November 21st and 22nd, the National University Hospital Administrative Department Directors' Conference held the 2024 National University Hospital Medical Affairs Staff Seminar at the Takara Hall of Kanazawa University Hospital.
This seminar has been held since 2017 as a training program sponsored by the Administrative Executive Director Conference. It is aimed at intermediate level people, such as those who have completed initial medical training, as a step-up training program, and aims to develop human resources who can contribute to the further development and management of hospitals through the process of creating and presenting deliverables in a thematic workshop format.
This year, Kanazawa University served as the duty school, and 45 participants from national university hospitals and other institutions across the country attended under the theme of "Sharing practical ideas and best practices to realize work style reforms”.
The seminar began with an address by Tsuyoshi Shimai, Administrative Director of the University of Tokyo Hospital, who also serves as Chairman of the General Affairs Committee of the National University Hospital Administrative Directors' Conference. This was followed by a lecture by our university's Trustee Akihiro Yachie, entitled "The Noto Peninsula Earthquake and the Oku-Noto Heavy Rain Disaster - Medical Challenges and Collaboration for Recovery," and a lecture by Masashi Kato of the Medical Affairs Division, Medical Affairs Bureau, Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, entitled "The Situation Since the Start of Work Style Reforms for Physicians." Participants listened intently to the lectures about the importance of collaboration and work style reforms for creative recovery.
In the following workshop, the members were divided into 10 groups, including "medical fee-related," "facility standard-related," "management improvement-related," and "regional medical cooperation-related," and discussed cases of efficiency improvement at each hospital by utilizing technologies and tools such as medical DX. The groups also summarized and presented their findings on quality improvement and future issues to be addressed through efficiency improvement.
We hope that the participants who were able to learn a wide range of expertise in medical affairs at this seminar will be very active as Administrative Staff in the medical affairs field in the future.