Fukushima Medical University

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Fukushima Medical University was founded to nurture medical professionals who will contribute to the promotion of health, medical care, and welfare of the citizens of Fukushima Prefecture. It is also a research institute to contribute to the community and humanity's welfare through advances made in medicine, nursing, and related areas.

Medical care is the collaboration of medicine, nursing, and allied health professionals.

Fukushima Medical University promotes education, research, and medicine based on the following principles:

• We respect human life and nurture medical professionals with high ethical standards.
• We pursue advanced medicine and nursing.
• We provide holistically and integrated medical care as the core medical institution in the prefecture.

More than three years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent Nuclear Power Plant accident. With the start of full-scale revitalization, we pledge never to forget, never to allow the memories to fade, and to explore a future full of hope with the people of Fukushima. Fukushima Medical University has always seen its mission as lying in the education of first-rate medical professionals, in the furtherance of medical and nursing research, and providing high quality and advanced medical care. It is now time for us to take a fresh look at this original mission to ensure that we are indeed fulfilling it while also being alive to the significance of the historical mission that destiny has given us in the form of the unprecedented disaster. This new mission calls on us to become the powerhouse in achieving a revitalized Fukushima while overseeing and protecting the people of Fukushima's physical and mental well-being. To this end, we present our new vision as the expression of our University's determination.

We are committed to making the "Fukushima Global Medical Science Center" the hub of concerted efforts to achieve a revitalized Fukushima underpinned by a reliable and safe infrastructure to support our citizens' daily lives. Initiatives to this end will include long-term provisions for promoting every one of our citizens' physical and mental well-being, the creation of new healthcare-related industries, and support for community-based healthcare. No matter how long it takes, we swear to provide ongoing support to Fukushima residents until every one of them feels that revitalization has been achieved.

Returning to the principles that inspired our foundation, we are determined to continue our efforts to educate and foster medical professionals equipped with the advanced knowledge and skills, coupled with high ethical principles, that will enable them to assume a vital role in the revitalization of Fukushima. We are committed to the continual enrichment of our educational capacity and curricula of our School of Medicine, School of Nursing, and Graduate School of Medicine in order to send out into the world medical professionals with proven competence in terms of knowledge, skills, and professional bearing. At Fukushima University Hospital and Aizu Medical Center, we bring to bear the on-site provision of reasonable medical care in enhancing our capacities as a provider of education and healthcare. We provide attractive training programs and perform career-long education to nurture medical professionals with the right balance of specialist and general skills. Besides, as a mark of our appreciation to those who sent warm messages, offered assistance, and helping hands. With all the humanitarian responses from all over the world after the disaster, we are actively engaged in developing medical professionals prepared for a possible future complex disaster: well-versed in disaster medicine and radiation medicine and equipped with the necessary social communication skills.

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