ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OUTLINE 2020 CONTENTS Message from the President 01 Message from the President Our Practice of Integrated Regional Medical Education and Contribution to Global Medicine 02 Educational Philosophy and Objectives Asahikawa Medical University was founded at the behest of healthcare where they can see things from the perspective of 03 Redefined Missions the national government in November 1973 as the first the patients. national medical university to be established to improve 04 Asahikawa Medical University’s Fundamental Objectives (Third Medium Term) regional medical services and welfare, and reduce urban/rural In order to train medical professionals from abroad and medical-care disparities. contribute to global medicine, we are going to establish the 05 Diploma Policy International Medical Educational Institute. We will accept 08 Curriculum Policy Since it was founded, Asahikawa Medical University has doctors, nurses, and technicians from Russia, Asian countries, produced 4,393 graduates from the Medical Course and 1,377 and Middle East countries, and our medical specialists will 12 Admission Policy graduates from the Nursing Course, many of whom are train them with Japan's most up-to-date medical technologies employed at the vanguard of community medicine, research including our cloud-based telemedicine. Our global 14 Topics institutes, and administrative bodies. contribution is to apply our strength to building medical 18 History infrastructure so everyone in the world can receive high quality It is estimated that the population in Hokkaido will medical service. 20 Organization Chart continue aging, and due to a declining birthrate, decreasing more rapidly than any other part of the country. That implies We reformed our entrance examination and, in 2017, we 21 Board and Faculty Members, Successive Presidents that public hospitals should be integrated and their medical introduced the Admissions Office Entrance Examination for the functions made clear. Our university, as a national university International Medical Professionals Course. We will send the 26 Departments hospital, follows the national policy and supports these public students to foreign countries, encouraging and facilitating 27 Number of Students, Academic Calendar hospitals. mutual exchange, education, and research. 31 Research In order to achieve the mission, in 2019, we established In December 2018, we introduced the world's first the Center for Integrated Medical Education and Regional laparoscopic surgery system with an 8K endoscope. This 35 Asahikawa Medical University Hospital Symbiosis to nurture medical individuals who will work closely system makes it possible to recognize imagery with a higher 37 Clinical Activities in 2019 with local communities. The facility will prove highly beneficial resolution than before and to conduct safer surgery with a to our medical students, 60% of whom are from Hokkaido, and reduced risk of bleeding and surgery complications. We have 40 Telemedicine Center to our clinical trainees, 56 of whom are from our university this a broad outlook and approach medicine with different year, which means we have the highest number of university perspectives. As a core medical organization we offer 42 Library, Health Administration Center graduates wishing to stay at their own university for clinical advanced medicine with cutting-edge technologies. Striving training in Japan. for the highest level of efficiency allows us to help our patients Center for Advanced Research and Education, Joint-Use Facilities 43 in the best way possible. 44 Regional and International Contributions We also developed Japan's first cloud-based medical system by which about 500 of our doctors use their 45 International Exchange smartphones and tablets to look at patient information sent by local core hospitals to the cloud on the internet. This makes it 46 Educational and Research Expenditure possible for our medical specialists to be prepared for treatment plans and operations while patients are being 47 Campus Map transported to our hospital. This is how we have strengthened 48 Location our hospital for advanced acute care. Our Nursing Department offers a Community-based Integrated Care course in each academic year, training future nurses, public health nurses, and midwives capable of offering this care. In 2019, we established the Nursing Support Center Seventh President for Career Development, Education, and Research, in which YOSHIDA Akitoshi more intensive training is provided to nursing professionals responsible for community-based integrated care. The aim is Since July 1, 2007 for them be able to offer advanced acute care and home Educational Philosophy and Objectives Redefined Missions We redened our missions after discussion with the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology. We Undergraduate looked at our strengths, characteristics, and social roles and took into account objective data concerning levels of research, Educational Philosophy educational achievement, and university-industry collaboration. Based on the redened missions, we aim to fulll our social responsibilities by strengthening our unique characteristics, developing education, research, and medicine, and fostering To nurture medical care professionals and researchers who have a true sense of compassion and broad academic perspectives, motivated medical professionals. who uphold the dignity of life and have high ethical standards, and who strive to acquire a high level of knowledge and techniques. To educate medical care professionals who contribute to the improvement of health and welfare in the local community. To train medical and nursing students to fulll a constructive role in the international community through Medical Science Nursing Science education, research, and health-care activities. ✓ Based on our founding principles, we aim to actively nurture ✓ Based on our founding principles, we aspire to nurture prospective doctors and researchers capable of contributing to prospective nursing professionals that have deep compassion Educational Objectives medical and welfare improvement rooted in community and respect for human dignity and rights and the ability to think To put its educational philosophy in practice, Asahikawa Medical University sets forth the following objectives: medicine, and to promote the admission of students who are and who will contribute to medical and welfare improvements strong-willed and determined to devote themselves to rooted in community medicine. We plan to introduce the 1. To produce health-care professionals with a well-rounded character through the cultivation of cultured minds and morals. community medicine, collaborating with high schools and Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) to evaluate 2. To develop students' understanding of the dignity of life and medical ethics, and establish compassion for the disabled and diseased. medical organizations in Hokkaido. their learning performance before they commence nursing 3. To have students acquire highly specialized knowledge and balanced medical skills as well as the ability to learn and study throughout practice, and to enhance their academic experience by their life. ✓ We aim to promote unique and distinctive research, develop improving the curriculum and learning environment to meet their 4. To enhance students' ability to communicate openly and effectively for medical collaboration and safety management. new medical technology, enhance medical standards, nurture desire to learn. 5. To foster a better understanding of the health and welfare in the local community and remote rural areas to meet the needs of residents individuals for future generations, making the utmost of research We aim to produce highly advanced professionals, including there. rooted in regional medicine, including telemedicine-related ✓ research—an area of research which is of particular importance nurses specialized in cancer, capable of dealing with the elderly. 6. To broaden horizons and boost involvement and commitment for the international community. in Hokkaido, as well as cerebral functional medical engineering We want to foster individuals with strong leadership skills, and to research for aging societies. contribute to health care in local areas including the northern and eastern parts of Hokkaido, solving the problem of the lack of Graduate School nurses by providing support to nurses who have temporarily left ✓ We intend to create innovations from Japan and put theory into their jobs to help them return to work. Philosophy practice by strongly promoting the transfer of basic research achievements into clinical practice. 1. To contribute, as a medical graduate school, to the comprehensive development of medical science and nursing science through various ✓ We want to contribute to the general health of local residents, basic and clinical studies. including the northern and eastern parts of Hokkaido, with its ✓ We endeavor to contribute to the solution of the problem of the vast geography and severe climate, making the utmost of 2. To advance knowledge through sincere efforts in research, seeking deeply for the truth with a spirit of independence, autonomy, and uneven distribution of doctors across Hokkaido by cooperating telenursing-related research, and to contribute to our global responsibility. with the prefecture and seamlessly fostering career formation society, fostering global-minded medical professionals with 3. To produce a diverse and balanced