98specialists in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of foot disease from plastic surgery, orthopedics, cardiovascular medicine, diabetology, nephrology, and rehabilitation and other field of specialists. (Figure 2). Nurse and footcare expert conduct a comprehensive assessment of feet and implements various treatments from foot care to treatment of ingrown nails. In detail, outpatient clinics are handled by doctors specializing in foot diseases in the fields of cardio-vascular medicine and surgery on Monday, vascular surgeon specialized in lymphedema on Tuesday, Figure 2 The figure shows the representative members of Podiatry Medicine in Japan which achieved by multidisciplinary team work.Figure 3 The table show the outpatient clinic responsibilities by the members in the Podiatry Center at Juntendo University Hospital.orthopedics on Wednesday, dermatology on Thursday, and plastic surgery on Thursday evening and Friday. Next to the outpatient clinic in charge of the doctor, a nurses who are certified for foot care instructor will be running the clinic responsible for assessment of podiatry disease and preventive foot care. (Figure 3) The role of the nurse is to compre-hensively assess the feet of the first-visited patient and practice treatments such as preventive foot care and ingrown nails. When the first-visit patient receives a medical examination, the nurse conducts a detailed interview and a comprehensive assess-
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