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Article History

Received: 15 August 2019

Accepted: 9 August 2020

First Online: 15 August 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study was approved by the Jikei University School of Medicine ethics committee. A public announcement about the study was posted on the Jikei University School of Medicine website.As this study was a workforce analysis performed using publicly available online information, it did not involve individual human participants.

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: M. Matsushima is a program director for the Jikei Clinical Research Program for Primary-care, an adviser for the Centre for Family Medicine Development (CFMD) practice based research network, and has received lecture fees and travel allowances from CFMD for lectures. M. Matsushima’s son-in-law is employed by IQVIA Services Japan K.K., a contract research and contract sales organization.Y. Satoi and Y. Hinata are current residents in family medicine at CFMD.T. Watanabe and K. Yokobayashi are former residents in family medicine at CFMD.Y. Fujinuma is a program advisor for the Jikei Clinical Research Program for Primary-care, and has received lecture fees and travel allowances from The Jikei University School of Medicine.E. Yoshida, Y. Satoi, Y. Hinata, and H. Iwata are currently trainees in the Jikei Clinical Research Program for Primary-care.T. Watanabe, K. Yokobayashi, and Y. Sugiyama are former trainees in the Jikei Clinical Research Program for Primary-care.There is no potential competing interest to be declared relevant to this work other than the above description.