UEMS: The Standardization of the Medical Specialties and Modalities

In the revision conference in Tokyo, the WHO organized the side session of TM in that meeting.This side session was reported in the plenary meeting.In addition, the TM session in the plenary conference was held.These sessions were a great opportunity to introduce and make the TM chapter visible to the member states of WHO.The WHO has gone through an international peer review of the draft version of the TM chapter using a WHO web-based review platform.The WHO also performed a field testing for relevance, applicability, quality and utility in the practice.The field testing consisted of three core studies (i.e.Study 1: Key Informant Survey and Consensus Conferences on Basic Questions; Study 2: Double Coding with ICD-11 TM chapter and other ICD-11 chapters; Study 3: Inter-rater reliability testing).Study 2 and Study 3 were successfully conducted through coding of Case Summaries.Finally, together with the whole ICD-11, the new traditional medicine chapter has been released in June 2018.This does not mean that the WHO endorses the scientific impact of traditional medicine, however the WHO expects this traditional medicine chapter will be a platform for evidence based traditional medicine statistics, epidemiology, health service management, clinical decision making, research and education.We need to create an evidence-based traditional medicine for the future.