Welcome to Okayama University Medical School

To all those who aspire to become clinicians and medical researchers who spread their wings from their local communities to the world.

Welcome to the homepage of the Okayama University Medical School.
In April 1870, the Okayama Domain opened a medical school and a major hospital, and this is the biggening of the history of Okayama University Medical School. Dutch doctor “Franciscus Johannes Antonius de Ruijter” was invited and he gave a lecture of Human Anatomy. Through various transitions, Third Higher Junior High School of Medicine, Government Okayama Medical University and Okayama University Medical School, April 2025 marks the 155th anniversary of our founding. Since the lecture of Ruijter, the place has continued to serve as a place for learning medicine.

Okayama University has set the goals of Okayama University Vision 3.0 (2022-2027): “A research university that fosters and co-creates the future we want’” and Okayama University Long-term Vision (~2050): “A research university that co-creates the future of the region and the earth and contributes to global innovation.” As a top-level university in Japan, we aim to become a research university that can compete with the world.

To achieve this goal, the Okayama University School of Medicine places great importance on medical education and strives to nurture clinical doctors and medical researchers who can soar into the world. Based on the three policies of the School of Medicine (Degree Policy, Curriculum Policy, and Admission Policy) and the revised “2022 Medical Education Model Core Curriculum”, we aim to build a consistent education system from pre-graduation to post-graduation. Lectures and training that contain many of the components of the degree policy, i.e., the learning achievement goals that the School of Medicine aims for, such as Professionalism and Behavioral Science, Medical Research Internship, Introduction to Clinical Practical Skills, Basic Clinical Training, and Elective Clinical Training, are designated as Important Subjects, and the level of learning achievement over the six years is continuously checked through performance evaluation (the extent to which students can put it into practice and can be trusted).

In addition, in the field of ​​medical research, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama University Hospital, and Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmaceutical Sciences are working together to steadily build a foundation for it. Under the “Japan-PEAKS (Japan-regional Research University Strengthening Promotion Project),” the university is working on the “Digital Rural Health Special Zone (Kibichuo-cho, Okayama Prefecture),” and also functions as a “Clinical Research Core Hospital,” a “Translational Research Support Center,” and a “Cancer Genome Medical Core Hospital,” and is supported by the Okayama University Biobank and “BIZEN-Project,” which promotes industry-academia co-creation activities. In addition, 58 core hospitals in the Chugoku and Shikoku regions and western Hyogo Prefecture have formed the Central West Japan Clinical Research Consortium, creating a megahospital system with approximately 22,000 beds. Furthermore, the Council for Medical Alliance-Okayama (CMA-Okayama) has formed a clinical trial and clinical research network with 10 hospitals, and is working to eliminate “drug loss and drug lag” and deliver effective new drugs to many people by accepting clinical trials as if they were a single hospital.

We hope you will come and join us at Okayama University School of Medicine. We look forward to welcoming you to support the future of medical care and medicine.

Jun Wada, MD, PhD
Dean, Okayama University Medical School