Wakayama Medical University, Kimiidera Campus

In April of this year, 2018, Wakayama Medical University will initiate its 3rd interim plan setting concrete objectives for the next 6 years. As we work toward the major milestone of the 80th anniversary of the founding of this university in 2025, it is as if we were making a new start under the slogan “To be a university that spreads it wings to soar out into the world with the community”.

Wakayama Medical University aims to contribute to local development efforts and the health and welfare of the people in the world by conducting researches both in basic and general areas of medicine and in highly specialized areas, helping our students and staff become highly ethical-minded, humanistic, and skilled in medicine, and by meeting the expectations of the people in Wakayama prefecture for medical care.

While providing high-level specialized education, this university has developed a wide variety of education in community medicine, health preservation, and welfare, and in doing so, it has contributed to the cultivation of the qualifications to respond to the broader needs of people with respect to health and illness as medical personnel. We train healthcare professionals who turn a stern eye toward disease but a gentle eye toward the “person who has the disease”. Moreover, we train healthcare professionals who have developed an international perspective through practice in a medical education program based on international standards (WFMG) as well as through global exchange. By enhancing the School of Medicine’s Basic Medical Practicum and promoting the MD-PhD course, we seek to cultivate a research mind through

By enhancing the Graduate School of Medicine’s Medical Research Course and Health Nursing Course, we aim to promote high-level medical research in basic medicine, clinical medicine, and health nursing. Moreover, by enhancing the Health Care and Nursing Sciences Masters Program through the addition of the planned new Pharmaceutical Research Course, we aim to make our hospital into a core clinical research hospital with a research support system strengthened by establishment of a research administrator (URA) and improvement of the Clinical Research Center, to promote higher-level research.

Our basic principles are as follows:

• To contribute to raising the standards of higher education and academic research.
• To train students acquire high-level specialized and comprehensive skills.
• To provide best-possible learning environment for the students.
• To provide leading-edge medical treatments.
• To contribute to the advancement of healthcare in the community.
• To provide people in the community with the opportunities for life-long education.
• To coordinate the efforts of the local community, industry, educational institutions, and government organizations.
• To plan activities aimed at enhancing the health and welfare of people.

The future of medicine and the future of this university are in the hands of you young people. Our university, which is now aiming to become a comprehensive medical university, is endeavoring to spread its wings widely, along with you young people. I call out to you, people who aim to become doctors, people who aim to become medical researchers, people who aim to become nurses, public health nurses, and birthing assistants, and doctors who wish to undergo further training. Our university has created an environment under which the power of the young can be freely exhibited, and we welcome young people filled with passion. Won’t you join us as we work together with the young to create a unique university that is a leader in education, research, and treatment?