Updated: July 2024, 4

Iwate Medical University

Fostering sincere human beings through medical education, dentistry education, pharmacy education and nursing education

A unique medical university where students from the four faculties of medicine, dentistry, medicine, and nursing study on the same campus.While each faculty demonstrates a high degree of autonomy, we are learning the basis of patient-centered medical care and team medical care in an environment of education, research, and medical care that has no boundaries between faculties.Furthermore, we are aiming to be a university that will be disseminated to the world by building a collaborative relationship with Harvard University in the United States regarding education and medical care, and realizing study abroad mainly by students and faculty members of the Faculty of Dentistry.

List of faculties / departments
Faculty of medicineMedical department capacity 130 people
Faculty of DentistryDentistry capacity 57 people
PharmacyFaculty of Pharmacy Capacity 80 people
Faculty of NursingNursing Department Capacity 95 people

Contact information, address, etc.
Zip Code028-3694
Address1-1-1, Idaidori, Yahaba-cho, Shiwa-gun, Iwate Prefecture
DepartmentEntrance Examination / Career Support Division
Phone019-651-5111 (main)



Others
Official pagehttps://www.iwate-med.ac.jp/

Iwate Medical University Article List

Kochi University of Technology and others identify involvement of the precuneus in traffic accidents

　A research group from Kochi University of Technology, Hirosaki University, and Iwate Medical University found that healthy people with ADHD (attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder)-like behavior have abnormalities in the parietal lobe.

Iwate Medical University discovers a new anti-obesity drug candidate and elucidates its mechanism of action

　The research group in the Department of Diabetes, Metabolism, and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Iwate Medical University is conducting research on uncoupling proteins involved in heat production in brown fat cells […]

Elucidating the susceptibility to EGFR-mutant lung adenocarcinoma in non-smokers

　A joint research group consisting of 19 institutions across the country*, including the National Cancer Center, has determined that individual differences in genes that determine susceptibility to lung adenocarcinoma are not […]

Psychiatric treatment guideline training, effective in correcting the gap with treatment

　The gap between recommended treatment methods and actual treatment methods in psychiatric medicine has become a problem, but seminars on clinical guidelines are becoming increasingly popular.

Confirmed the usefulness of "Caspian Sea Yogurt" as a supplement that makes it easier to swallow medicines

　A joint research group of Iwate Medical University, Teikyo Heisei University, and Fujicco Co., Ltd. has the potential as a medication supplement for "Caspian Sea Yogurt" […]

Iwate Medical University Article List