School of Medicine
Overview
- To pursue the dignity of human beings and contribute to the advancement of medicine.
- To educate physicians and medical scientists who are endowed with a high standard of medical knowledge and fulfill their duty in society with a broad outlook and supple thinking.
- To promote studies of international standard in all aspects of basic and applied medical science.
- To provide highly advanced medicine in cooperation with the local community.
Education method, lecture overview
Curriculum
The characteristic curriculum of the School of Medicine involves labs, including early exposure, various basic and professional labs, clinical training, and clinical clerkship.
For the early exposure program, students can experience medical practice primarily by observation soon after admission. For clinical clerkship, students are involved in actual clinics under the supervision of physicians to prepare themselves as doctors after completing most of the medical courses.
Medical education course
Since 2010, the School of Medicine accepts 20 bachelor transfer students, who start in the 2nd year.
Students from general and Comprehensive type selection entrance examinations complete 6 years of unified education as in the past. On the other hand, bachelor transfer students start in the 2nd year and complete in 5 years.
Liberal arts educational courses
Our mission is to produce people with advanced professional knowledge who are also well educated. Courses in the liberal arts are taught in the 1st year. The courses in liberal arts include English communication practice, information basics, science basics, cultured subjects, local subjects, and global subjects.
Major courses
Major courses consist of major basic courses and major medicine courses (basic medicine courses and clinical medicine courses).
Major basic courses
In the basic human science lab, students rotate basic medicine lectures and department to learn human biology from the 1st year, while becoming familiar with faculty members in the basic medicine department at the School of Medicine. In addition, clinical practice is offered from the 1st year, and students make contact with patients in clinical departments at the university hospital as well as visit hospitals and facilities in and around Hirosaki for early on-site learning as introduction to clinical medicine.
Major medicine course
Major medicine courses start in full swing in the 2nd year. Basic medicine courses are taught in a way that students can learn from lectures and labs, which continues until the 3th year. During this period, the 3rd-year students are assigned to labs in different courses for lab training, as an opportunity to be exposed to research. Clinical medicine courses start in the 3rd year, and the 4th-year students take lectures of each system intensively. Prior to clinical training in the 5th year, basic academic knowledge necessary for clinical training is assessed nationally by common achievement tests (CBT: Computer-Based Tests) and Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE). On clearing these tests, students can start clinical rotations at clinics and affiliated hospitals and learn hands-on with patients under clinical clerkship. Comprehensive examination is conducted in the 2nd semester in the 6th year. After that, students will study less-experienced fields and prepare for the national examination for medical practitioners.
Number of students (As of May 1, 2024)
TOTAL
782
M 440 / F 342
Access and Contact
| Address | 5 Zaifu-cho, Hirosaki-shi, Aomori 036-8562 |
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| jm5204@hirosaki-u.ac.jp |
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