Table 2 Major activities of the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Internal Medicine (JSPIM) over the past 20 years
From: Current state and future prospects for psychosomatic medicine in Japan
| 1) Certification system for registered PIM physicians |
| 2) Certification system for PIM specialists |
| 3) The First Commemorative Joint Congress of five Psychosomatic Medicine Societies |
| 4) Authorization of “PIM specialist” license by Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare |
| 5) Certified NPO Accreditation by the Governor of Chiba Prefecture |
| 6) Sister Society Agreement between JSPIM and DKPM (Deutsches Kollegium für Psychosomatische Medizin) |
| 7) Inauguration of the Katsura Memorial Conference on the Therapeutic Self and the Committee on self-evaluation of the therapeutic self. |
| 8) Translation and publication of “Therapeutic Self” authored by Watkins |
| 9) Dispatch of a disaster assistance team to the disaster stricken area of the East Japan earthquake. |
| 10) Dispatch of physicians to Rikuzen-takata clinic (in quake-hit area) in cooperation with Iwate Prefecture Medical Association (from October 2011 to present) |
| 11) Collaboration with the Japan Primary Care Association |
| 12) Membership: 1,292; physicians 87.7%, non-physicians 12.3% (as of October 2016) |
| 13) 441Registered PIM physicians and 122 PIM specialists. (as of May 2016) |