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2019 Annual Academic Seminar
The 2019 TAFM Annual Academic Seminar had its grand opening on July 21 at the NTUH International Convention Center. We would like to express our gratitude to National Taiwan University Hospital for providing a quality conference venue and offering generous assistance in expediting the successful completion of the seminar. With the conscientious efforts of our Publication Committee, the seminar this year showcased a rich array of productive activities and presentations. Officers of health authorities were invited to update seminar participants with the latest health and medicine policies, and a Taiwan-Japan-Korea trilateral symposium was organized to examine and explore the roles family physicians play in smoking cessation. The seminar further encompasses presentations on significant issues—notably wise choice of medical and healthcare services, home-based medical care, applications of AI in medicine and healthcare, and the Patient Right to Autonomy Act—and the results of collaboration with various institutes and agencies, including comprehensive travel medicine, patient-centered care in response to the New Southbound Policy, mental health education for practicing family physicians, communication skills for shared decision-making (SDM), and primary care clinical updates. TAFM was pleased to have the internationally renowned music Professor Fang-Yi Lee and Mr. Chih-Hong Tseng brighten the seminar with their wonderful piano-violin duet. The total number of seminar participants approached 2,600 this year. TAFM would like to say “Bravo!” to its members as the seminar was pleasantly overwhelmed by as many as 168 poster presentations in addition to the papers scheduled for oral presentation. Moreover, we were honored to have Professor Tesshu Kusaba, President of Japan Primary Care Association, as our special guest bringing valuable insights with his speech on “The Role of Family Medicine in Super-Aging Society.” As the world’s No.1 aged country, Japan in 2018 found citizens over 65 years old and those over 70 accounted respectively for 28.1% and 20.7% of its total population. Its experiences of coping with the problems and needs of a super-aging society are definitely worth emulating.