Kagawa Prefectural University of Health and Medicine

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Our school offers a beautiful natural environment and is equipped with excellent teaching staff and a state-of-the-art training facility. Furthermore, we are offering small group seminars and clinical internships to enrich learning opportunities for our students. We wish to develop our students into trustworthy and sympathetic healthcare providers through the educational blend of highly specialized and knowledgeable teachers, practical experience, and a sense of humanity.

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

We want to develop sophisticated healthcare professionals with international perspectives that respect life's dignity and have a deep sense of humanity. These healthcare professionals will then fulfill their social mission as health care workers through lifelong exploration and research, using the scientific thinking and creativity and 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 to contribute to the improvement of health care in their region.

Educational goal:

• The development of highly educated personnel with a developed sense of ethics and broad knowledge can act according 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, striving for livelong improvement of their abilities and can adapt 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 cooperating 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 healthcare and welfare system's role. We aim to teach our students the ability to warm-heartedly share human joy, pain, and suffering based on respect for the dignity of life. Furthermore, we want to foster a rich sense of ethics and humanity to act following human rights.

To solve health-related problems, students will learn to develop 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 an 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 themselves and become specialists in practice, education, or research.

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