Persons who have completed undergraduate education in medicine, dentistry or veterinary medicine, or persons who have completed master's education in other disciplines in principle.

Students must complete the course with 30 or more credits as follows:
(1) General subjects taken in the first year: 12 or more credits in three subjects (elective compulsory subjects)
(2) Disciplinary core subjects: 12 or more credits in eight subjects
(3) Subjects taken in the latter years of the course: 6 or more credits in three subjects


A two-tiered assessment is conducted by the thesis committee (in open review) and again by the Faculty Council.