Division of Health Science

We educate graduate students to be medical specialists who have flexibility to adapt to daily-improving medical technology with more advanced knowledge and technology in the Division of Health Science Medical Scientific Specialty of the Graduate School of Health Science. In addition, making use of the advantageous circumstance that SUMS includes many medical and welfare departments, we educate to develop students in an interdisciplinary way to collaborate with staff of other fields.

Through the education of our division, we aim to foster highly specialized medical professionals with broad abilities to contribute to medical service in the community who can be immediately effective and maintain leadership in a variety or medical facilities or medical companies.

The Division of Health Science of Graduate School has 12 specialized areas, that is, Radiological Informatics, Clinical Nutrition, Medical Technology, Physical Therapy, Medical Welfare, Clinical Psychology, Acupuncture and Moxibustion Science, Clinical Engineering, Health Informatics and Nursing (the above, Chiyozaki Campus), and Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Radiology (the above, Tokyo Satellite Course).

Each student studies a main course in one of these specialized areas and study from 70 subjects of each specialized area and common areas throughout both their Masters or Doctoral programs. They research their Master’s thesis or Doctoral dissertation concerning their specialization, complete their paper and receive a Masters or Doctorate when they pass the examination.

Many students with full time jobs are involved in this division and we offer convenience to these students by preparing various systems such as intensive course of lectures on weekends and configure assignments for home or the workplace. This is true especially for Medical Imaging and Therapeutic Radiology at the Tokyo Satellite where the school is fully open on Saturday and Sunday once or twice a month for students’ convenience.

Field Common

Faculty Member

Specialized field introduction

Department of Radiological Informatics

Through radiology research and education, students deepen understanding and scientifically and systematically study the management of image processing and its information based on clinical technology of radiology.
The aim is also to gain new knowledge by focusing on circumstances around the radiological field and inclusive education as well.

Faculty Member

Department of Clinical Nutrition

Medicine in the 21st century: From treatment to prevention
What is important for prevention is proper eating, exercise and having a good mental attitude. Eating problem is boundlessly getting nearer to medical field. In a graduate school based on healthcare at a specialized university in which education of a registered dietician is included, we educate and supervise specialists exhaustively who are required by hospitals, companies and research and development facilities.

Faculty Member

Department of Medical Technology

Medicine in the 21st century: From diagnosis treatment to prevention>
Acquiring high level clinical examination skills toward personalized medicine and prevention. Educating specialists required not only by medical facilities but also education, research, development facilities and companies. We educate researchers and advanced specialists of medicine and healthcare who can launch out into the world.

Faculty Member

Department of Physical Therapy

Physiotherapy is a clinical science.
Student research for “helpful results for patients or disabled or elderly people. We educate these three competencies:
1. “Ability to review information from reference"
2. “Ability to measure and analyze"
3. “Ability to consider and present"

Faculty Member

Department of Occupational Therapy

Through lectures in the course of occupational therapy department, you can acquire specialized knowledge of occupational therapy and an understanding of research methods. This field is suitable for graduates of occupational therapy and occupational therapists working in the rehabilitation field. After completing this course, you will work as a university faculty member, a researcher and an administrator in a hospital.

Faculty Member

Department of Medical Welfare

Social welfare science is a science aiming at solving problems by intervening between people and circumstances. This science needs advanced knowledge and skills. Students think of concrete ways to bring about individual happiness by keeping a global point of view. We aim at fostering social workers who are experts in fields such as healthcare, the legal system and community development.

Faculty Member

Department of Clinical Psychology

Clinical psychologist is the study of practice to understand troubled clients’ heart and support utilizing their heart. Our graduate students learn both linguistic therapy and non-linguistic therapy (expression therapy, play therapy etc.), listen to troubled clients’ words, and understand clients’ heart deeply by thinking the meanings of what was expressed, and learn that the counselor together with the client experiences the process of activating client’s innate self-healing power.

Faculty Member

Department of Acupuncture and Moxibustion Medical Science

Students exploit the mechanism of acupuncture and moxibustion acquire a basic and clinical method of research and establish a base as “an acupuncture and moxibustion researcher." We aim at fostering acupuncture and moxibustion practitioners to be “superior acupuncture and moxibustion practitioners" who have clinical skills to develop effectiveness of the therapy.
We educate them to understand the essence of eastern medicine including acupuncture and moxibustion and to take an important role as a member an interdisciplinary medical team staff.

Faculty Member

Department of Clinical Engineering

We educate clinical engineering experts especially those who are specialized in high-level knowledge concerning a life-support system and are able to consider medical safety. They develop their problem saving ability as a member of an interdisciplinary medical team by understanding a variety of medical technologies with a broad view of things. As for topics of study in this department, a variety of topics regarding clinical engineering and biomedical engineering are available.

Faculty Member

Department of Health Informatics

Indispensable competence to live through the globalizing era: This is the ability to see through and process the essence of information and to see the big picture. The department of health informatics foster superior specialists who deal with information in health, medical and welfare fields.

Faculty Member

Department of Nursing

We educate nursing specialists with the following abilities:
① Investigate, study and apply nursing based on scientific evidence.
② Practice advanced nursing supported by humanism and ethics.
③ Instruct and educate nurses properly.
④ Evaluate and improve nursing practice.
⑤ Coordinate and cooperate appropriately for promotion of comprehensive community care system.

Faculty Member

Department of gaining the qualification of cytotechnologist

In the course of gaining the qualification of cytotechnologist, students practice the study and have education of cytomorphology and deepen the understanding of cell shapes of each disease. Completing the masters’ course, students can gain the qualification of cytotechnologist approved by Japanese Society of Clinical Cytology and obtain masters’ degree. Moreover, we prepare education for students to take International Cytotechnologist.