Kansai University of Health Sciences

[EduCativ]

Our university motto is "the spirit of service in which one must live through the path of great value to society." Our forerunner Kansai Vocational School of Acupuncture and Massage, was founded in May 1957 by Takeo Takeda on the above motto. The school's goals were to cultivate excellent acupuncture and massage skills and develop these therapies in Osaka. In April 1985, the three-year Kansai College of Oriental Medicine was established, evolved into Kansai University of Oriental Medicine as a four-year university in April 2003. In April 2007, the name of our university was changed to Kansai University of Health Sciences. At the same time, the Graduate School of Kansai University of Health Sciences (Master's Course) was established.
We established various affiliated medical institutions to provide clinical education in high-level integrative medicine and contribute to the local health care. The Attached Clinic provides specialized medical services based on Western medicine. The Attached Acupuncture and Moxibustion Clinic, the Attached Satellite Acupuncture and Moxibustion Clinic in Wakayama, and the Attached Judo Therapy Clinic offer medical care based on traditional Oriental medicine. These clinics also provide clinical practice, training, and research for students, graduate students, and medical professionals. Under the existing circumstances, we believe that it is essential to help students develop into medical personnel with the requisite skills for emergency medical care at the scene of earthquakes, tsunamis, and other disasters.
Presently, Japanese society is rapidly aging at speed unprecedented in the world. Various diseases are seen in the elderly, and the metabolic syndrome and stress-related diseases such as depression that reflects modern society are rapidly increasing in number. Western medicine, which focuses on specialized and fractionalized medical treatment, is too analytical to cope with diseases' structural change. Therefore, we consider it essential to carry out our mission of producing medical professionals who will become leaders in the field of integrative medicine.
The Mayo Clinic in the United States is a world-renowned medical institution and one we aim to emulate as an ideal health center. The Mayo Clinic aims to achieve "ultimate hospitality." Its logo and mark feature the three shields, representing the clinic's three primary objectives: the most extensive and central shield represents "care of patients," and the other two smaller shields represent medical research and education, respectively. The clinic's motto, "The needs of patients come first," is a century-old brand and announces the principle that guides all its medical practices. On the principle that "Medicine is a cooperative science, requiring collaboration and teamwork," the Mayo Clinic practices the ultimate world-class medicine. At our university, under our founding motto, "Living through the path of great value to society," we, too, stand firm by "the spirit of service" that puts the needs of patients first and commits us to produce medical researchers and practitioners who can observe the highest ethical standards and cooperate with their colleagues.

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