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| A Message from the Director, Medical Course |
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As of April 2003, we at the Medical Course made the switch to a lecture-based
credit system of six courses, abolishing the previous system of academic
subjects, basic courses, and clinical studies. Made in light of the educational
objectives of the KMS core curriculum and appropriate distribution of staff,
our aim with these changes is to our develop joint research capability
focusing on specialization in research as well as the generation of research
projects both on and off our campus.
In addition, we also offer Master's and Doctor's programs as graduate-level medical research courses. We are now implementing a six-year program that begins with four years of study under the KMS core curriculum, which includes a variety of clinical and treatment components. Problem Based Learning (PBL), done in groups, is implemented full-scale as of the third year, while fourth-year students are actively engaged in Objective Structural Clinical Examination (OSCE) and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) trials (the latter fully implemented as of the 2005 academic year).
Fifth-year curriculum involves significant student participation in medical treatment as members of medical teams as part of the Clinical Clerkship (CC) program. Further, we are also striving to achieve excellence in translational research, based on foundations built through our lecture-based credit system, promoting important research through integrated projects both on and off campus in the current competitive environment.
Based in our founding philosophy of having compassion for others and searching for the truth, we are working to turn out doctors with a humanitarian view as well as to do our part in the local community and foster greater interaction through a "close-to-home" kind of medicine. We are also striving to do what we can on the international scene, actively forging links with universities in the U.S., Canada, and China. Above all, we seek to forge beneficial links with others in our field, and to build the kind of sensitivity and youthful dynamism that consistently takes up new challenges.
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| Otsuki Yuji: Director, Medical Course |
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Message from the Director