Japan Medical Association Junior Doctors Network Report on the 30th CMAAO General Assembly in Myanmar.

The 30th General Assembly of the Confederation of Medical Associations in Asia and Oceania (CMAAO) was held from September 23 to 25, 2015 in Myanmar. This report is an overview of the event as I had the honor of attending the meeting on behalf of the Japan Medical Association Junior Doctors Network (JMA-JDN). The meeting took place in the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, a Southeast Asian country with a population of about 51.41 million people (Myanmar Ministry of Immigration and Population, Sept. 2014). About 70% of the population belongs to the Bamar ethnic group, the official language is Burmese, and about 85% of the population is Buddhist. The word Myanmar brings to my mind the Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and the nation’s 2010 general election.1 Despite the politically turbulent images I had about the country, I received a warm welcome by my JDN friends when I arrived at the Yangon airport.