Kee Hyuck Lee, et al: Implementation of a Videoconferencing System between Multiple Family Medicine Departments Table 1. Staff lectures from April to October 2010. Status of staff lecture speaker Professor of SNUH Gynecology Family Medicine physician Professor of SNUH Gastroenterology Professor of SNUH Gynecology Professor of SNUH Family Medicine Professor of SNUH Family Medicine Professor of SNUH Gastroenterology Family Medicine physician Professor of SNUH Family Medicine Director of Kyobo Life Insurance Professor of SNUH Family Medicine Professor of SNUH Radiology Professor of SNUBH Family Medicine Professor of SNUH Family Medicine Professor of SNUBH Family Medicine Professor of SNUH Family Medicine Professor of SNUH Bbstetrics Nutritionist of SNUH Health Promotion Center Professor of SNUH Radiology Professor of SNUBH Family Medicine Professor of SNUH Cardiology Professor of SNUH Endocrinology Family Medicine physician of the US Army Stationed in Korea Professor of SNUH Ophthalmology Professor of SNUH Neurosurgery Professor of SNUH Urology Staff lecture title Gynecological examination & guidelines for abnormal Pap smear results Introduction to the aesthetic clinic Recent advances of gastrointestinal medical treatments Diagnosis & treatment of female incontinence Green clinic: environmental medicine Smoking cessation treatment: between evidence, above evidence Deciding causality of drug-drug interactions and side effect Procedures of the aesthetic clinic Social network service Insurance medicine Health status of migrants from North Korea and the direction of a health care supporting system for them Radiologic management of thyroid nodular disease Chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic fatigue clinic Communication and health system issues in cancer survivorship care The power to make a behavioral change-motivation interview Tubby or not tubby, fat is the problem Maternal physiology for primary physicians Evaluation method of exercise & nutrition in a health promotion center Ground glass opacity nodules in the lung Medical research ethics: conﬂicts of interest ECG reading & diagnosis of arrhythmia for clinicians Recent advances of diabetes research Trans-nationalism Funduscopy reading in health promotion center Endoscopic spine procedure Recent advances of prostate cancer SNUH: Seoul National University Hospital, SNUBH: Seoul National University Bundang Hospital. discussions of articles or textbooks and presentations on clinical themes.4) However, hospitals with a small numbers of staff members or residents have difficulties preparing independent conferences when their residents are dispatched to other departments or subsidiary hospitals.3) Even when human resources are sufficient, it is still difficult to maintain a high level of participation in conferences if residents are frequently dispatched to other departments or hospitals. Such factors negatively impact the quality of continuing medical education.2) In 2007, there were 104 hospitals with family medicine residency training programs in Korea. 60% of them were secondary hospitals, and 34 hospitals had only one family medicine staff member, while 30 hospitals had two staff members.6) According to a study conducted in 2003, 24% of family medicine residency training programs in Korea had one or two family medicine residents, and 33% had three to six residents.4) Joint videoconferences between hospitals Korean J Fam Med Vol. 32, No. 5 Jul 2011 | 313