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Devices for point of care testing (POCT) and self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) have their own characteristics and understanding them is desirable for appropriate use. However, it is hard to say that all medical care prodivers, who measure blood glucose levels with them, understand the characteristics today. The POCT guidelines recommended education and enlightenment of physicians for appropriate use of POCT devices and documented that it was important to educate and enlighten trainee physicians in particular, who would be instructor doctors in the future. All first-year trainee physicians (72 physicians), who worked at the clinical laboratory in our hospital in 2005 and 2006 as rotator physicians in training, were asked to measure blood glucose with a POCT-compatible blood glucose monitor and a questionnaire survey was carried out. The necessity and the importance of the inspection were experienced, and the understanding level of POCT of the trainee physicians who finished clinical training in an indispensable department was higher than that of an inexperienced trainee physicians for clinical training.