Education
Diploma Policy
Master’s Program
In the Master's Program, the Master's Degrees in Nursing Science and Health Sciences are awarded to individuals who have acquired the following abilities and obtained the required credits.
- The ability to conduct research based on research ethics to solve practical problems in the health and health care systems.
- The ability to use the excellent specialized knowledge and skills that will have been acquired in the health and health care sciences to improve the quality of practice.
- The ability to play the role required of advanced professionals in health and health care practices in local and international communities.
Doctoral Program
In the Doctoral Program, the Doctoral Degree of Health Sciences is awarded to individuals who have obtained the required credits and passed both the review of their doctoral thesis and the final examination and have acquired the following abilities.
- The ability to conduct research autonomously based on research ethics and on the scientific base that underpin the development of health and health care practices.
- The ability to conduct, based on the broad academic knowledge and expertise that will have been acquired, multidisciplinary collaboration and joint research with experts from other fields.
- The ability to disseminate research results and solve health and health-care problems in local and international communities.
Curriculum Policy
Master’s Program
In the Master's Program, curriculum is organized and implemented as follows to help students meet the requirements specified in the Diploma Policy:
- The curriculum provides students an opportunity to learn with individuals from program and common education subjects of the Master's Program so that they develop a rich humanity and broad perspective.
- The curriculum provides common subjects from each domain to help graduate students augment their basic abilities in their specialization and advance their studies.
- The curriculum provides specialized subjects (lectures, practicum, research) to help students to gain superior knowledge and techniques as advanced professionals and to help them acquire the research and educational skills required to solve problems related to health care in local and international communities.
- The curriculum is organized in ways that help graduate students study specialized subjects of other domains to understand the specialization of other domains and become capable of collaborating with those specialization in other domains.
Doctoral Program
In the doctoral program, the curriculum is organized and implemented as follows to develop professionals who meet the requirements of the Degree Awarding Policy:
- The curriculum provides common educational subjects of the Doctoral Program in ways that help graduate students to acquire advanced specialized knowledge based on comprehensive information that is the basis of the health sciences.
- The curriculum provides specialized subjects (lectures, practicum, research) in ways that help graduate students to gain high quality knowledge and techniques in their specialized fields and to acquire the abilities to conduct research and educational activities autonomously for improving health care in local and international communities.
- The curriculum is organized in ways that help graduate students to study specialized subjects of other fields so that they can grasp and develop their specialized fields from a broader perspective.
Facilities
University Library (Sakuragaoka Branch Libary)
Education Center for Doctors in Remote Islands and Rural Areas
Education Center for Nurses in Remote Islands and Rural Areas
Center for Innovation in Medical and Dental Education
