Diploma and Curriculum Policies of the Graduate School of Medical Science

Medicine (Doctoral Program)

Diploma Policy

The Medicine Major confers a degree on students who have achieved the requirements below and completed the Doctoral Program or those who were in the Doctoral Program for a prescribed period of time, submitted a dissertation after obtaining the necessary number of credits and successfully passed the dissertation screening and final examination.

Clinical Medicine

The degree holder is equipped with cutting-edge specialty knowledge and skills as well as a rich knowledge in general clinical medicine and can plan and execute own research from a wide perspective. The holder also possesses the overall ability to present own research results at academic meetings and in academic papers.

Basic Medicine

The degree holder has cutting-edge specialty knowledge as well as a wide basic knowledge of clinical medicine and can plan and execute own research from a wide perspective. The holder also possesses the overall ability to present own research results at academic meetings and in academic papers.

Curriculum Policy

The Doctoral Program conducts highly specialized research guidance and education through the specialized medical curriculum and specialized curriculum for cancer specialist training. It offers a common curriculum consisting of lectures and practices to develop people who can play central roles in basic medicine, clinical medicine and social medicine and have a wide knowledge and skills in areas other than their specialties. The course for cancer specialist training provides lectures and practices that allow students to achieve specialist qualifications. The genome cohort research course offers more practical, panoramic, systematic and advanced genome cohort education to students who wish to pursue this area of study.

Environmental Life Science

Diploma Policy

Master's Program

The Environmental Life Science Major confers a master's degree on students who have completed the Master's Program and satisfy the requirements below:

The degree holder must be equipped with a basic knowledge of medical science in general other than own specialty field, research skills and the abilities to tackle a new research field by understanding academic papers and presentations at academic meetings and present and discuss own research results at academic meetings.

Doctoral Program

A doctoral degree is conferred on students who satisfy the requirements below and have completed the Doctoral Program or those who were in the Doctoral Program for a prescribed period of time, submitted a dissertation after obtaining the necessary number of credits and successfully passed the dissertation screening and final examination.

The degree holder must have acquired deep cutting-edge knowledge and the research capability necessary to further medical research and a wide knowledge of medical science in general, is able to plan and execute research and possesses the comprehensive ability to present research results in academic papers and at academic meetings.

Curriculum Policy

Researchers of various fields cooperate with each other in carrying out community-based research and solve problems. For fostering people who further promote the research on the basis of research results, the program conducts education with the following four points in mind:

An advanced sense of bioethics and rich humanity
The creative, application and execution abilities on top of a wide range of basic skills obtained in a cross-disciplinary environment
Internationally competitiveness through the acquisition of state-of-the-art knowledge and skills
Contribute to the local community through unique research from a wide perspective

Nursing

Diploma Policy

Master's Program

A master's degree is granted to students who have completed the Master's Program and:

Protect the basic human rights, have advanced ethical awareness and a broad vision and can properly assist the self-determination of people,
Have the basic ability to promote nursing research in order to shed light on and solve problems of nursing phenomena, practical skills and nursing systems on the scientific ground, and
Can contribute to collaboration and cooperation of cross-disciplinary teams, both Japanese and foreign, in various scenes to provide nursing services.

Doctoral Program

A doctoral degree is awarded to students who have completed the Doctorral Program and:

Can independently carry out education, research and practical activities that guarantee the safety and quality of nursing and care,
Can independently conduct education, research and practical activities related to nursing and care, ranging from support for the healthy spiritual development of children to health support for the elderly and support of care-needing elderly people and home care patients for their dignity of life, and
Are equipped with rich knowledge and a deep insight indispensable to advanced nursing professionals of today's graying society and capable of developing disease prevention and life support methods for the elderly based on the basic theory to contribute to education, study and practice on their own.

Curriculum Policy

Master's Program

The Master's Program provides nursing education to foster people who can logically and systematically explain nursing phenomena and possess the basic ability to promote nursing study. In order to nurture researchers and advanced professionals, the curriculum is compiled as follows:

It consists of three disciplines, i.e., basic nursing, clinical nursing and community nursing.
The course curriculum requires students to take Special Lectures of other specialty fields in addition to Special Lectures, seminars and special nursing study of their own specialty fields to allow them to acquire broad knowledge and a wide perspective.
An agreement was made in academic year 2004 on ethics of nursing study to make it a requirement for a master's degree candidate to have high ethical consideration in order to pass the thesis screening.
The screening of master's theses is open with criteria made public and takes into account the development of logical thinking and explanation capability.

Doctoral Program

The Doctoral Program is designed to develop independent advanced nursing professionals who can ensure the safety and security of nursing and care service users, contribute to life with dignity and the development of health support and are inclined to research with the integrated capability to develop nursing and care theories, skills, systems and human resources. To this end, the curriculum is compiled as follows:

The education and research area is nursing in aging society.
The education and research area consists of two domains, i.e., safety and management support nursing and life support nursing.
The curriculum includes Special Lecture on nursing in aging society that aims at making students of the two fields able to clearly explain their research task areas, research method seminar for the acquisition of the ability to specifically formulate a research hypothesis appropriate for a doctoral dissertation and work out a research method, field practices to develop rich knowledge and a deep insight as advanced professionals who play leadership roles in practical scenes and Special Study to write an appropriate doctoral dissertation on the basis of the achievements of Special Lecture, research method seminar and field practices.