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HOME > Admissions Policy
The School of Medical Science (Master’s Course) was established, with the aim of fostering excellent medical science researchers by offering basic knowledge in the medical field, and training in medical science research to students with broad knowledge in natural science who received undergraduate education other than medical education.
Therefore, this course looks for not only students who received biology-associated undergraduate education but also promising students with broad basic academic ability in other natural science fields such as science or engineering.
Our ideal is that talented students in the fields
of not only biology but also mathematics, physics, chemistry, and informatics
who have not received medical education will encounter various pathological
phenomena, develop new interests and eagerness, and become researchers
who can participate in the next innovation in the medical field and the
cultivation of new fields. The master’s course provides a 2-year educational
program irrespective of whether the biology course was completed or not.
We expect that talented students in broad fields will become researchers
who cultivate new fields by learning from teachers in the medical field.
In principle, this course aims at fostering researchers who proceed to the doctoral course and therefore, provides integrated education.
To achieve the above goals, this course will admit talented students with eagerness to pioneer new interdisciplinary research fields, and advance beyond the boundaries of their specialized field in undergraduate education.
In the 21st century, the medical biology field is experiencing a giant paradigm shift with the clarification of enormous genome information. In addition, medicine has been closely merging with other fields such as pharmacology, science, and engineering, forming interdisciplinary fields. On the other hand, in clinical medicine, not only research on the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of disorders have been performed, but also important problems have emerged such as problems associated with life ethics in organ transplantation, in vitro fertilization, and gene therapy, the harmony between progress in advanced medicine and the dignity of life, changes in the disorder structure due to the advent of super-aging society, and medicine with importance placed of the patient’s QOL. Thus, the environment of medicine/medical care has been markedly changing.
At this turning point, the educational goals of this doctoral course can be summarized as the following 6 points. 1. To open the gate to excellent students with original ideas and to foster graduate students with an international outlook. 2. To foster researchers and advanced medical specialists who can make presentations, have discussion, and perform joint studies in international settings. 3. To foster researchers who can exercise international leadership by performing high-level original studies. 4. To foster researchers who can promote cross-sectional studies in basic-clinical medicine in terms of the application of the results of research to the development of new medical techniques and drugs. 5. To foster excellent specialists who can perform advanced medicine such as transplantation medicine, gene therapy, and regenerative medicine. 6. To foster specialists in the new field of public health who can interface medical research/medical care with society, individuals, and administrations. To achieve these goals, this course provides broad systematic intensive education in the latest medicine, encourages original research activity, and promotes researchers and educators in the medical field and professionals who are engaged in advanced medicine at the international level. Applicants to this course are required to have graduated from the faculty of medicine, or have graduated from other faculties and completed the doctoral course or have technical knowledge/techniques at a similar level. In addition, all applicants are required to have strong interest in and orientation to research in the doctoral course. Applicants should have an interview with the professor in charge or a full-time instructor, and acquire concrete information on the contents of research in the area concerned and education principles. Some areas in the clinical research field require a physician’s license. For this, see the Guidelines for Admission.
This course aims at provide education to students who hope to be professionals or educators/researchers in public health, medicine, and welfare in the future so that they can acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are necessary for the detection, evaluation, analysis, and solution of problems associated with “the health of society”. This course covers extensive academic fields from natural science to human social science. Therefore, we welcome highly motivated applicants from various fields who intend to be active as advanced professionals or educators/researchers in health, medicine, and welfare in Japan and other countries.
Further, we have offered the Management of Technology in Medical Science Course since 2004. Japan is becoming oriented to an intellectual content nation and trying to widely grant patents also in the medical field. Therefore, advanced professionals who manage and utilize the results of research in advanced medicine as intellectual property are necessary. We welcome applicants with eagerness who hope to be active in this field.
In addition, from 2005 we inaugurate a 1-year course
specifically for doctors and dentists (clinical researcher training course,
Master of Clinical Research: MCR).
While medical research in Japan up to now has focused primarily on life science
research, at the same time we believe that there is a need to promote clinical
research dealing with humans and groups as units. This MCR course will be the
first full-scale curriculum offered in Japan to educate the researchers who will
play an active part in this field. We welcome applications from individuals who
intend to do clinical research based on research questions from their own clinical
experience.
Further, Genetic Counselling and Clinical Research Unit has been offered since 2006. The mission of the Unit is to train genetic counselors and clinical research coordinators, who as all-around support specialists will form the core group of personnel sustaining the genetic medicine and genome research fields, and truly bring the benefits of research findings to patients and their families. They should be "interface specialists" with advanced knowledge and shills on tailor-made medicine utilizing genomics and pharmacogenetics, development of new drug and regeneration medicine, and with communication skills understanding situation of patients, family and volunteers.
This course aims at research on academic issues necessary for the detection, evaluation, analysis, and solution of problems associated with “the health and disorders in society”. Students who completed this course are expected to be engaged in advanced education/research in public health, medicine, welfare in Japan and other countries in the future. This course is interdisciplinary, covering extensive fields from natural science to human social science. Therefore, we welcome applicants from various fields who are eager to perform research on the above issues.
Although medicine and medical care have made great progress in our country, further development is required to meet the needs of the future. The faculty of Medicine at Kyoto University has promoted advanced medical technology and proposed the creation of a new scientific field, Human Health Sciences, to develop public health, medical care, and welfare policies for the future of Japan. The Department of Human Health Sciences sets out a systematic theory of the domain of human health and elucidates approaches to achieving goals in this field. Based on these goals, we train medical professionals with superior clinical skills who can provide necessary medical care while demonstrating empathy with their patients. Moreover, we prepare educators and researchers who will combine basic medical science with clinical medicine, and who will work with other disciplines as they take the lead in the next phase of human health science. Therefore, we welcome individuals who are enthusiastic about contributing to the future of medical science.
Through its medical research programs, Kyoto University has played a major role in the prevention and treatment of disease. The course of study designed for doctors at the Departament of Human Health Sciences has been organized to establish the theoretical foundation of Human Health Science with regard to achieving its goal of maintaining and promoting genuine health, and to develop this theoretical foundation into specific practices that further our pursuit of methods for overcoming disease. To maintain its leadership role in the fields of medicine and medical science Kyoto University requires individuals who are able to operate in their major areas of expertise as well as in a wide range of related fields. Therefore, as an addition to the conventional courses, we have developed “ Fusion unit for near future human health sciences” in order to foster the development of a theoretical foundation for mental and physical diagnoses, treatment, and health that is based on an approach combining medicine, engineering, pharmacy, science, social studies, and the humanities, including both theory and practice. In the context of this perspective, we have defined our goals in terms of training individuals to assume supervisory positions as the field of human health science continues to evolve. Thus, we seek to attract individuals not only from medicine or medical science fields but also those from the private and public sectors. In the future, we plan to supply human resources to industrial, public, and academic domains. We hope that highly motivated individuals will join our program.
