Tokyo Women's Medical University

Tokyo Women's Medical University (TWMU) is a medical university with modern and sophisticated educational, clinical, and research foundations for over one hundred years.
Tokyo Women's Medical University was founded in 1900 by Yayoi Yoshioka as Tokyo Women's Medical School. Her conviction that medicine is a suitable profession for women and the philosophy that medical professionals need to be sincere and compassionate in every way have prevailed over the 117 years of the school's history. Our mission is to uphold her conviction and philosophy to the context of present-day medical education, research, and practice. Our undergraduate schools (Schools of Medicine and Nursing) have been dedicated to educating women, whereas postgraduate (Graduate Schools of Medical Science, Nursing, and Joint graduate school of Tokyo Women's Medical University and Waseda University) and professional educations (Specialty and Subspecialty in Medicine, Nursing and other medical professions) are open to both genders.
Traditionally all of our undergraduate schools, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, are devoted to developing women's professions. Our graduate schools, faculties, and hospitals are open to both genders. The uniqueness of TWMU derives from the founder's strong volition to establish women's professions. Her conviction, "sincerity and compassion," enlightens is our commitment to medical services and care provided to our clients. Our medical school curriculum applies a unique learning program based on learner-centered education, and the 6-year curriculum articulates our commitment to excellence. The medical school was awarded the "Good Practice in the Higher Education" in 2003.
The university was awarded the "Center of Excellence" (COE) in research for regenerative medicine in 2003. Other necessary and clinical researches are undergoing in graduate schools and medical research institutes. We invite you to explore our university further while looking at the different pages of the website. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Ten clinical institutes provide a wide range of medicine, including community-based medicine and highly specialized medicine. All clinical sites are practicing patient-centered medicine, which is an expression of the founder's belief.
Together, TWMU is academia committed to better healthcare for society. The commitment has been unchanged since its foundation, while the achievement has been build-up for the future of medicine.
Our medical and nursing educations must continue to improve to provide the highest professional education available. In the international external evaluation of the medical school in 2012, the school was recognized to surpass the global standards of medical education set by the World Federation for Medical Education. Graduate schools aim to train academic professionals who will contribute to the future of medicine.
The university is also a site of basic and clinical research. Our research institutes include the Institute of Advanced Biomedical Engineering and Science. The fusion of engineering and medicine fosters unique and internationally recognized research in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Our sincerity in research, the extension of the founder's belief, is to provide outcomes that contribute to patients' welfare. Patient-oriented and high-quality medical practices are at the core of our services. Tokyo Women's Medical University is a site of medicine challenges for a better practice of "Sincerity and Compassion" in the global era.