The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine (JAAM)

The Japanese Association for Acute Medicine (JAAM) is an academic association and a suborganization of Japan Medical Association. In Japan, emergency medicine specialists who treat critical patients exclusively were the byproducts of the advent of tertiary emergency centers. Acute medicine naturally covers a wide range disciplines, from basic sciences and clinical medicine to sociomedical considerations. These facts, as well as the presence of JAAM, have contributed to the creation of the new multidisciplinary clinical science of "pantraumatology." Despite the progress in acute medicine over the last several years in Japan, important future tasks include the support and dissemination of emergency medical research, improved organization in the emergency care system, and standards for general clinical competency of emergency specialists at all levels.