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Mitsuo Katano,
M.D.,Ph.D.
Dean, Faculty of Medicine,
Graduate School of Medical Sciences
and School of Medicine,
Kyushu University
(History)
The Faculty of Medicine was founded in 1903 as the Fukuoka Medical College attached to Kyoto Imperial University, and was incorporated into the newly established Kyushu Imperial University in 1911. The number of graduates with the degree of M.D.amounted to 10,927 as of May 2005. The Faculty now covers every field of basic and clinical medicine. The Grauate School of Medical Science was organized in 1955 and has included various sections of Molecular Medicine and of Molecular Biology since 1986. Also attached to the Faculty are the Research Institute for Diseases of the Chest, the Research Institute of Angiocardiology, the Neurological Institute, the Center of Biomedical Research and the Center for Research and Practice in Medical Education. The University Hospital attached to the Faculty was established in 1903. The Faculty of Medicine has concluded agreements with six foreign medical schools to promote academic cooperation in both education and research. Many postgraduate students from abroad are now studying at various departments of the Faculty.
To promote the integration of medical science with the research field of systems based on clinical and basic medicine, the organization of the Graduate School was extensively changed in 1999 and expanded into seven Departments, that is, Integrative Biomedical Sciences, Reproductive and Developmental Medicine, Pathological Science, Medicine and Surgery, Physiological Sciences, Environmental Health and Socio-Medical Sciences, and Molecular Biology. A total of 22 specialized fields ware integrated to form these Departments. To carry out high level research and education in close cooperation with other Faculties, the Faculty of Medicine was reorganized in 2000, and now comprises the Graduate School of Medical Sciences (for education of the graduate students), the Faculty of Medical Sciences (for research activity of the faculty members), and the School of Medicine (for education of the undergraduate students).
The new graduate school course for Health Care Administration and Management, Department of Environmental Health and Socio-Medical Sciences just started from 2001 with 20 students each year. And Department of Health Sciences, School of Medicine (Nursing Course, Radiological Sciences Course, and Medical Technology Course)started as a 4 year course Professional School in October, 2002. The Department of Biomedical Science started as a 4-year school in April, 2007, focusing on the development of young biomedical scientists and biomedical engineers.
In Health Science, the Master's course started in April, 2007, and the Doctor's course did in April, 2009.
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