(Health Korea News / Yu Ji-in) ‘Medical 24 Hours’ is a corner that shows brief news related to the medical field that can easily be overlooked in the media at a glance. It may seem like trivial news, but it can be valuable information to someone, so we summarize only the facts.
Special Committee on All, ‘First National Doctors’ Debate on the Fate of the Republic of Korea’
The Special Committee for Proper Medical Care (Special Committee) of the Korean Medical Association is preparing for the ‘1st National Doctors’ Debate on the Vital Status of Korean Medical Care’ scheduled for the 26th. In addition, the Special Committee stated that it has conveyed its opinion to the executive branch of the Korean Medical Association to implement more active support projects such as job linkage so that it can provide practical help to interns who are struggling financially.
This debate was organized to reflect on the reality that young doctors have no choice but to leave the medical field with the participation of former medical members, and to discuss what needs to be improved for the future of Korean medicine.
The National Doctors’ Debate will begin with the opening remarks of the special committee co-chairs, followed by an encouraging speech from the president of the Korean Medical Association, and an announcement of the winners of the ‘Medical Policy Contest Proposed by Young Doctors’. After that, there will be presentations on the topics of ‘Problems and Reform Plans for the Current Training System’ and ‘The End Point and Alternatives of Galapagos Medical Care’, and in the middle, there will be a presentation on measures to encourage doctors to advance overseas as a resident session.
Bundang Seoul National University Hospital designated as ‘leading hospital for health care data standards’
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital was designated as the main institution for the ‘Standard Leading Institution Support Project for Field Verification and Dissemination of Healthcare Standards’ conducted by the Korea Health Industry Development Institute, and held a commemorative event on the 22nd.
Healthcare data refers to all data generated from people, such as personal genetic information, health information, and treatment/prescription information. Recently, cases of utilizing healthcare data for actual diagnosis and treatment decision-making are increasing, and in the case of healthcare data, the formats are diverse and the amount is huge, so in order to smoothly link, share, and utilize it, ‘standardization’ of healthcare data is necessary.
The support project for leading organizations in healthcare data standards is a project aimed at verifying the standard system introduced for establishing healthcare data standards and expanding them in the field at the national level and promoting their expansion in the field in the future.
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital was selected as the main organization for this project in recognition of its expertise in the field of standardization of healthcare data, including its advanced medical information system and its own medical information standard operation and management process and system.
As the main organization, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, together with its partner organizations Ewha Medical Center Ewha Mokdong Hospital, Bit Computer, and Easy Care Tech, will conduct various research and demonstration projects to strengthen the effectiveness of healthcare data standards and apply the standards within medical institutions, and will play a pivotal role in establishing and disseminating healthcare data standards.
This project is expected to provide a foundation for easy exchange of healthcare data among medical institutions, public institutions, private sector, and patients, and to contribute to improving the efficiency and stability of healthcare services through sharing of medical records and prescription information between medical institutions. Furthermore, it is expected that global collaborative research and market entry will also be activated based on healthcare data that meets international standards.
Professor Lee Yu-mi of Severance Hospital elected as director of the American Society for Bone Metabolism
Professor Lee Yu-mi of the Department of Endocrinology at Severance Hospital has been elected as the first Korean director of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR). Her term of office is three years, starting in September.
The Board of Directors, consisting of 13 members including the President, Past Presidents, President-elect, Secretary General, and the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (JBMR), is the most important policy-making body of ASBMR.
The dual directors are nominated by the board of directors from among six candidates, who are then directly elected by members around the world.
Professor Lee also received the Paula Stern Achievement Award, which honors Paula Stern, the first female president of ASBMR. It is given to women who have made significant scientific achievements in the field of bone metabolism and promoted the professional development of women in the future.
He will become the first Korean to receive the award at the annual meeting to be held in Toronto in September 2024.
Jeonbuk National University Hospital continues to carry out public health care projects
Jeonbuk National University Hospital announced that it is continuously implementing various public health care projects to promote the health of local residents and provide customized medical services.
In the public sector (Public Health and Medical Affairs Office), the project is being promoted at the Jeonbuk National University Hospital’s public specialized medical centers, including the Geriatric Health and Medical Center, Regional Respiratory Disease Center, Children’s Hospital (Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine), the Oral Care Center for the Disabled, the Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, and the Department of Neurology.
The Oral Care Center for the Disabled (Professor Baek Jin-ah) is a specialized hospital for the disabled in the Jeonbuk region, and it carries out oral disease prevention education and oral examinations for the disabled in the region, as well as dental disease treatment support projects for the disabled in low-income families. In the first half of the year, it conducted oral examinations and oral health education for about 600 people at 24 welfare facilities for the disabled, and plans to conduct additional examinations for about 400 people at 20 locations in the second half of the year.
The Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism (Professor Lee Kyung-ae) is working with the medical staff of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine to promote a project for pregnant diabetic patients in Jeollabuk-do to provide diet therapy, exercise therapy, insulin administration, and self-control methods, and to manage their health through healthy and safe childbirth and postpartum maternal blood sugar monitoring. In the first half of the year, about 20 people underwent continuous blood sugar measurement tests and diabetes education, and in the second half of the year, they plan to hold a business promotion and a lecture on diabetes management during pregnancy.
The Department of Neurology (Professor Oh Seon-yeong) is discovering risk factors for chronic dizziness and polyneuropathy in the elderly living alone in Jeollabuk-do, and is promoting a project for early treatment, medical intervention, education on diseases, and prevention. In the first half of the year, about 20 people were screened for geriatric dizziness and received education on preventive exercise, and in the second half of the year, screening for geriatric peripheral neuropathy and education on preventive exercise are scheduled.
Medicheck Korea Health Management Association, 31st Korean Basic Medical Science Conference, Excellent Poster Award
The Korea Health Management Association (Chairman In-Won Kim, hereinafter referred to as the KHA) presented a case of Echinostoma cinetorchis infection at the 31st Korean Basic Medical Science Conference on June 27 and received an award for excellent poster design.
This case is one in which a foreign body suspected to be a parasite was discovered during a colonoscopy examination of a female patient in her 60s at an internal medicine clinic in Pyeongtaek, and the parasite was identified at the Health Insurance Review & Assessment Service Medicheck Research Institute.
The patient visited the hospital complaining of sudden indigestion, fatigue, headache, nausea, etc. after eating loach and squid recently, and underwent routine blood tests, stool tests, and colonoscopy to find the cause.
Blood and stool test results were all negative, but Echinococcus testis was found during a colonoscopy. This is the first case in Korea in 10 years since the case was reported in 2014.
The intermediate hosts of the previous testicular fluke are shellfish or loaches, and humans can also become infected if they eat infected intermediate hosts without cooking them. As the name suggests, the parasite’s testicles are often observed moving from their original location to another location, and eventually one or both testicles are lost.
In particular, most trematodes parasitize in the small intestine, but it is noteworthy that in this case they were found not only in the terminal small intestine but also in the ascending colon.
Professor Jeong Hye-gyeong of the Korea University Anam Hospital receives the Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology Endocrine Society’s Outstanding Oral Presentation Award
Professor Hye-Kyung Jeong of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Korea University Anam Hospital received the Excellence in Oral Presentation Award at the ‘2024 Korean Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology Endocrine Society 33rd Academic Conference and Training Course’ held at the Yugwangsa Hall of Korea University College of Medicine on July 7.
Professor Jeong Hye-gyeong, along with Professors Park Hyeon-tae and Ryu Ki-jin of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Professor Lee Ji-eun of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology, gave an oral presentation on the research topic “Proteomic analysis of menstrual blood as dried blood spots for discovery of proteins specific to endometriosis,” and was awarded this year’s award.
Endometriosis and adenomyosis can be treated before the pain becomes severe if discovered early, and can prevent them from becoming causes of infertility, etc. Diagnosis requires examination through laparoscopy, vaginal ultrasound, or MRI, but this has been raised as a problem that it can cause patients to endure pain and delay diagnosis.
In this presentation, Professor Jeong Hye-gyeong suggested the possibility of developing a diagnostic method that can diagnose endometriosis and adenomyosis early using menstrual blood. Professor Jeong Hye-gyeong explained, “We have optimized the method of analyzing and quantifying proteins in samples collected in the form of dried blood spots (DBS) from menstrual blood,” and “This is research to develop a convenient and patient-friendly early diagnosis method.”
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