TABLE 1.

Society board members of the Japanese Society of Hospital General Medicine and the Japanese Primary Care Association.

Japanese Society of Hospital General Medicine		Japanese Primary Care Association
Total	21	Total	39
University hospital	13	University hospital	18
Professor	12	Professor	11
Associate professor	1	Associate professor	4
		Assistant professor	3
Other hospital	8	Other hospital or clinic	19
President	2	Chairman	2
Director of training center	1	President	7
Director	2	Director of training center	2
Division Chief	2	Co‐director of training center	2
Physician‐in‐Chief	1	Director	1
		Division Chief	1
		Physician‐in‐Chief	2
		Staff Physician	2
		Others (1 pharmacist and 1 professor in a nursing school)