Educational Policy

Fundamental Educational Goals

Okayama University Medical School aims to provide education that enhances the training of excellent healthcare professionals and medical researchers as its most important mission. Building on the steady research achievements accumulated over many years, the faculty fosters students’ ability to actively acquire scientific thinking methods and advanced medical knowledge and skills. Through close dialogue and discussions with fellow students and faculty, the faculty supports the development of rich humanity, ensuring each individual adheres to medical ethics. Additionally, the faculty aims to cultivate individuals with high comprehensive abilities and character who can play a central role in various fields both domestically and internationally.The Medical School aims to provide education that enhances the training of excellent healthcare professionals and medical researchers as its most important mission. Building on the steady research achievements accumulated over many years, the faculty fosters students’ ability to actively acquire scientific thinking methods and advanced medical knowledge and skills. Through close dialogue and discussions with fellow students and faculty, the faculty supports the development of rich humanity, ensuring each individual adheres to medical ethics. Additionally, the faculty aims to cultivate individuals with high comprehensive abilities and character who can play a central role in various fields both domestically and internationally.

Exemplary Students

Okayama University Medical School identifies the “ability of students to actively acquire scientific thinking methods and advanced medical knowledge and skills,” “commitment to medical ethics,” “high comprehensive ability,” and “high character,” as outlined in the fundamental educational goals, respectively as “implementation ability,” “inquiry ability,” “communication ability,” “specialized ability,” and “liberal arts ability.” The school aims to cultivate pioneering practitioners in the fields of medicine and health sciences who can continuously grow and flexibly apply their specialized knowledge and skills with a high sense of ethics to protect and promote the well-being of people.

Pioneering practitioners in the fields of medicine and health sciences who can flexibly and continuously grow, applying their specialized knowledge and skills accurately with a high sense of ethics to protect and promote the well-being of people.

Based on the above “Educational Policies” of the Medical School, please refer to the following for the policies of each department: the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Health Sciences.