OVERVIEW

The core mission of Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University is to nurture medical practitioners, medical care specialists and researchers serving globally. This graduate school comprises of three departments of Medical Sciences (Master and Doctor Course), Health Sciences (Master and Doctor Course) and Health Care Administration and Management (Master Course).Our faculty members work together as a team to contribute to education that creates superior medical professionals in close collaboration with Kyushu University Hospital. In addition to education, our faculty places an emphasis to our core mission for the advancement of medical research as a research institute. We are seeing ever-increasing research outcomes, showing steady research accomplishments in diverse fields.

However, considering the prevailing trend toward university reform, we should not be merely satisfied with the status quo. We have a diversity of excellent researchers in various fields who are committed to the advancement of world-class research. It is our desire to encourage joint research by strengthened interdisciplinary collaboration and to expand our scope of activities outside the university and to the world to pursue world-class research. We will build up a structure enabling proactive support for both basic and clinical medicine and foster an environment for nurturing human assets to lead future-generation medical care and medical study with our distinctive faculty team.