Kawasaki Medical School

Today, our society undertakes the challenges of an aging society, computerization, globalization, and technical innovation. Medical universities are socially expected to train physicians who are capable of responding to these challenges and providing high-level medical services.

Our medical university must evolve to fulfill more responsibilities with reviewing our advanced educational and medical system, which has been cultivated since the establishment of Kawasaki Gakuen. We are also tasked with evolving this school system into an institution of advanced and concentrated knowledge. And we must steadily pursue our ends to provide competent physicians who can be to meet the demands of society and take responsibility as a leader in medical science to help people in need.

We are to make every effort to contribute to education, research and medical services, making good use of our unique features.

All faculty members carry out the basic philosophy of the founder into action to provide students with the opportunity to become physicians with strong will, sound body, intelligence and moral ethics based on humanity. Students can acquire an in-depth medical knowledge and make contribution to new medical science.

• Education of competent and tenderhearted physicians who have a wide range of knowledge, technique, and high reliability.
• Education of competent medical experts.
• Education of researchers who will advance the practice of medicine and biomedical sciences.
• Education of physicians who have sound minds and bodies with great humanity.

An Educational System Based on Our Educational Philosophy and acadmic target:

• Educational programs, which develop rich humanity and ensure an excellent medical education, are offered. Specialized courses start at the 1st grade based on the properly balanced program.
• Each cubicle on our private study floors, which is provided for 2nd year through 6th year students, is equipped with a LAN connection.
• In addition to the organ and function-based integrated lectures, the pre-clinical training for clinical skills and knowledge is prepared for the 3rd and 4th grade students. The students are evaluated by using OSCE.
• 5th grade students are divided into small groups for the clinical training by participating in medical practice and these groups can study together in their study room.
• 6th grade students have intensive lectures mainly about basic medical and clinical science in order to master knowledge required for clinical practice and national examinations.
• An intensive audiovisual education is provided to students of all grades. Students are provided with the tutorial system: a counselor teacher for each grade and an advisory teacher for each small group.

One of the unique characteristics of Kawasaki Gakuen is that it is compulsory for all 1st grade students to live in the dormitory. This experience helps students learn how to get along together and gain fellow feeling. This also provides an opportunity to make life-long friends. This on-campus dormitory provides private rooms for individual students and a large open space for common usage. The dormitory is located in a quiet and picturesque environment, the students ar.