Kagawa Prefectural University of Health and Medicine

Our school offers a wonderful natural environment and is equipped with an excellent teaching staff and a state-of-the-art training facility. Our main educational goal is to prepare students for their future role in society as part of the health workforce through fostering their sense of humanity along with imparting broad knowledge and encouraging their scientific thinking and problem solving abilities. We also offer joint classes for both students of the nursing department as well as the clinical examination department, in order to deepen their knowledge and understanding of each others’ work and nurture the students inter-departmental teamworking and leadership abilities necessary for success in their future working environment. Furthermore we are offering small group seminars and clinical internships to enrich learning opportunities for our students. Through the educational blend of highly specialized and knowledgeable teachers, practical experience, and sense of humanity, we wish to develop our students into trustworthy and sympathetic healthcare providers.

As our school is a prefectural university, we wish to work closely with the regional communities and institutions in order to expand our educational and researching activities and focus on the regional healthcare needs. As a medical institution our main task is to function as a center of knowledge in the fields of health science and to contribute to regional welfare and healthcare services.

We want to develop sophisticated healthcare professionals with international perspectives that respect the dignity of life and have a deep sense of humanity. These healthcare professional will then fulfill their social mission as health care workers through life long exploration and research, using the scientific thinking and creativity as well as the broad knowledge and technological expertise they acquired during their studies at Kagawa Prefectural University of Health Sciences. Furthermore, graduates will provide lifelong learning to people and health workers in their communities in order to contribute to the improvement of health care in their region.

Educational goal:

• Development of highly educated personnel, with a developed sense of ethics and broad knowledge, that can act in accordance to the dignity of life and human rights based on their deep sense of humanity.
• Development of health care personnel with professional knowledge and practical abilities as well as comprehensive judgment skills.
• Development of health care personnel with scientific thinking, based on creativity and curiosity, who are striving for livelong improvement of their abilities and are capable of adapting to advanced medical care technologies and changes in the social environment.
• Development of health care personnel who contribute to society by attaching great importance to health care and welfare and to the cooperation with other professionals.
• Development of health care personnel who understand and respond to demands characteristic of the region and its various healthcare and welfare needs.
• Development of personnel able to solve healthcare and welfare problems with an international perspective.

We aim to foster a high sense of humanity, based on respect for the dignity of life in our candidates and teach them professional knowledge and skills in order to meet social needs. We want to develop specialized nurses with a deep understanding of their role in the healthcare and welfare system. We aim to teach our students the ability to warm-heartedly share human joy, pain and suffering based on the principle of respect for the dignity of life. Furthermore we want to foster a rich sense of ethics and humanity in our students so that they can act in accordance with human rights.

In order to solve health related problems, students will learn to develop the intellectual power, the ability to judge, and the ability to adapt to certain situations by studying to acquire the necessary knowledge and skills. We aim to develop nursing practice abilities based on the understanding of humans as individuals, parts of groups, families or communities. We want to develop the understanding of nursing as part of the healthcare and welfare system and foster students’ ability to contribute to local and international communities. We want students to develop the ability to improve oneself and become a specialist in practice, education or research.