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Table 2 Requests (free description) from secondary emergency medical institutions—requests to the Japanese Association for Acute Medicine (3 or more comments in bold)

From: The current status of emergency departments in secondary emergency medical institutions in Japan: a questionnaire survey

Number of opinions

29

Provide education to secondary medical institutions

26

Increase in the number of emergency physicians, training of specialist physicians, sufficiency of emergency physicians at core hospitals, and elimination of unequal distribution of emergency physicians

26

Lobbying the national government

14

Obtaining or renewing an emergency specialist medical license

12

Educating the public

10

Attention and support for secondary emergency medical facilities

9

Leading network building and mutual hospital cooperation

6

Evaluation

6

Contents related to medical specialists

5

Workplace reforms

4

Training and competence of emergency physicians

3

Eliminate physician shortage and physician maldistribution

3

Improvement of the status of emergency physicians

3

Training and education of emergency nurses (including certified)

3

Development of psychiatric emergency services

3

Emergency system (primary to tertiary)

3

Developing guidelines and guidelines as an academic society independently in Japan

3

Utilization of emergency medical technicians

3

Contents related to emergency medicine

3

Content related to the survey

2

Active support to facilities with emergency physicians

2

Continue to hold scientific meetings on the web owing to my busy schedule and being alone

2

Promote research on firefighting and medical control

2

Consideration of charging for ambulance service

2

About the Society’s Certified Resuscitation Training Course

13

Others