• Requirements for Completion
• Syllabus

Requirements for Completion

Course completion requires certain years of study (four years or longer), 30 or more credits, requisite research guidance, and the approval of a doctoral dissertation and success in the final qualifying examination. As for the period of study, if students are recognized for their outstanding research achievements, a minimum of three years will be regarded as sufficient for the doctoral course.

The following represent the types of 30 course credits required for completion. In the common core subjects, students need to complete a total of six or more credits that include two credits from required subjects, one credit from required electives, and three credits from electives. Three elective credits can be substituted for the advanced core subjects. In the advanced core subjects, students must acquire two or more credits. Additional credits can be converted to the common core subjects. In the specialized basic subjects, students are required to earn a total of six or more credits selected from among all specialized basic subjects offered, whether they major in Health Research or Advanced Therapeutics Courses. In the specialized subjects, a total of sixteen or more credits are required with a choice of four or more credits from seminars and twelve or more credits from research in their research fields.

As for doctoral dissertations, the final doctoral examination is conducted after a review of research plans and submitted dissertations (mid-term review). In each stage, dissertations are strictly screened in terms of content and ethical standards.

List of subjects in the Global PhD Course for Medical and Dental Sciences

Syllabus

Common core subjects

Type of course	Syllabus	Course title	Instructor	Credits
Required		Medical amd Dental research lecture（cm）	Educational Committee Chairperson	2
Required Elective		Ethics and science	Sloan Robert Alan	2
Elective		Introduction to Scientific Writing	Sloan Robert Alan	2
Elective		Life Science English	Shuichi KUSANO	2

Advanced core subjects

Type of course	Syllabus	Course title	Instructor	Credits
Elective		Data analysis using R（cm）	Chihaya KORIYAMA	1
Elective		Bioinformatics and medical research	Tatsuhiko FURUKAWA etc.	2

Specialized basic subjects

Type of course	Syllabus	Course title	Instructor	Credits
Elective		Learning about environment and health・safety	Hiroaki KAWAGUCHI	2
Elective		Digestive and Lifestyle Diseases	Akio IDO	2
Elective		Lecture on Diabetes & Endocrinology	Yoshihiko NISHIO	2
Elective		Epidemiology	Chihaya KORIYAMA	2
Elective		Lecture on the Legal Medicine	Takahito HAYASHI	2
Elective		Introduction to Psychiatry	Motofumi KASUGAI	2
Elective		Lectures in Behavioral Medicine	Akihiro ASAKAWA	2
Elective		Health professions education I	Masami TAGAWA	2
Elective		Health professions education II	Masami TAGAWA	2
Elective		Health professions education III	Masami TAGAWA	2
Elective		Behavioral Science in Dentistry	Norihiro TAGUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Pathogenic microbiology	Junichiro NISHI	2
Elective		Immunology	Hiromitsu HARA	2
Elective		Antiviral Chemotherapy	Mika OKAMOTO	2
Elective		Human T-lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1)-associated diseases	Ryuji Kubota etc.	2
Elective		Hematology and Immunology	Kenji ISHITSUKA	2
Elective		Molecular biology and biochemistry	Shosei KISHIDA	2
Elective		Reproductive pathophysiology	Hiroaki KOBAYASHI	2
Elective	be in preparation	Lecture Program of Pediatric Surgery	Satoshi IEIRI	2
Elective		Pediatrics	Yasuhiro OKAMOTO	2
Elective		Oral Molecular Biology	Tomokazu OHNISHI	2
Elective		Lecture for Bacteriology	Hitoshi KOMATSUZAWA	2
Elective		Oral health promotion（cm）	Takahiko OHO	2
Elective		Oral Hygiene and Infection Control by Oral Management	Taihei YAMAGUCHI	2
Elective		Seminar in Orthodontics	Shouichi MIYAWAKI etc.	2
Elective		The overview of pediatric dentistry	Youichi YAMASAKI etc.	2
Elective		Island and Community Medicine I	Toshiro TAKEZAKI etc.	2
Elective		Island and Community Medicine II	Toshiro TAKEZAKI etc.	2
Elective		Longevity oral science	Kenji MATSUSHITA	2
Elective		Morphological Sciences	Masahiro SHIBATA	2
Elective		Brain Sciences	June KAWANO	2
Elective		Principles and frontiers of developmental neuroscience	Yoshiaki TAGAWA	2
Elective		Neuroimmunology	Eiji MATSUURA	2
Elective		Orofacial Neuroanatomy	Tetsuya Goto	2
Elective	be in preparation	Oral Biomechanics	Yuichi TAMATSU	2
Elective		Ophthalmology and Visual science	Taiji SAKAMOTO	2
Elective		Ophthalmology and Molecular Vision	Taiji SAKAMOTO	2
Elective		Structure and function of the skin	Takuro KANEKURA etc.	2
Elective		Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Functional Morphology	Yuichi KURONO	2
Elective		Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery Molecular Pathology	Yuichi KURONO	2
Elective		Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine	Ken-Ichiro KOSAI	2
Elective		Orthopaedic Surgery	Noboru TANIGUCHI	2
Elective		Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine	Megumi SHIMODOZONO etc.	2
Elective	be in preparation	Laboratory and Vascular Medicine	Teruto HASHIGUCHI	2
Elective		Cardiovascular Medicine	Mitsuru OHISHI	2
Elective		Cardiology	Yoshiyuki IKEDA etc.	2
Elective		Cardiovascular Surgery	Yutaka IMOTO	2
Elective		Respiratory Medicine	Hiromasa INOUE	2
Elective		General Thoracic Surgery	Masami SATO	2
Elective		Integrative and Molecular Physiology	Tomoyuki KUWAKI etc.	2
Elective	be in preparation	Molecular pharmacology	Atsuro MIYATA	2
Elective		Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine	Yuichi KANMURA etc.	2
Elective		Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Ⅱ	Takahiro MORIYAMA	2
Elective		Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Ⅲ	Akira MATSUNAGA	2
Elective		Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine Ⅳ	Maiko HASEGAWA	2
Elective	be in preparation	Advanced LectureⅠof Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine	Yasuyuki KAKIHANA	2
Elective	be in preparation	Advanced LectureⅡof Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine	Tomotsugu YASUDA	2
Elective		Clinical Pharmacokinetics	Yasuo TAKEDA etc.	2
Elective		Applied Pharmacology	Tomoaki SATO	2
Elective		Oral Physiology	Mitsuru SAITO	2
Elective		Biomaterials Science	Masafumi KIKUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Oral and Maxillofacial Prosthodontics	Masahiro NISHIMURA etc.	2
Elective		Restorative Dentistry and Endodontology	Yoshihiro NISHITANI	2
Elective		Periodontal disease control	Kazuyuki NOGUCHI	2
Elective		Maxillofacial Oncology	Tsuyoshi SUGIURA	2
Elective		Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery	Norifumi NAKAMURA etc.	2
Elective		Systemic Management for Dentistry	Mitsutaka SUGIMURA	2
Elective		Radiology (diagnosis and therapy)	Takashi YOSHIURA	2
Elective		Surgical Oncology and Digestive Surgery	Kosei MAEMURA	2
Elective		Urologic Oncology	Masayuki NAKAGAWA	2
Elective		Molecular Oncology 2	Tatsuhiko FURUKAWA	2
Elective		Oral pathology	Ichiro SEMBA etc.	2
Elective	be in preparation	Maxillo-facial Radiology	Hideyuki MAJIMA etc.	2
Elective
Elective		Study of Neurohumoral Factors	Michihisa JOUGASAKI	2
Elective		Cardiovascular Diseases and Neurohumoral Factors	Michihisa JOUGASAKI	2
Elective		Hemato-oncology I	Atae UTSUNOMIYA	2
Elective		Hemato-oncology Ⅱ	Atae UTSUNOMIYA	2
Elective		Clinical and medical oncologyⅠ	Yoshikazu UENOSONO	2
Elective		Clinical and medical oncologyⅡ	Yoshikazu UENOSONO	2

Specialized subjects

Type of course	Syllabus	Course title	Instructor	Credits
Elective		Hygiene and health promotion medicine (exercise)（cm）	Masahisa HORIUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Hygiene and health promotion medicine（cm）	Masahisa HORIUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Digestive and Lifestyle Diseases practice	Akio IDO etc.	2
Elective		Digestive and Lifestyle Diseases experiment	Akio IDO etc.	2
Elective		Life style and metabolic diseases(exercise)（cm）	Yoshihiko NISHIO	2
Elective		Life style and metabolic diseases（cm）	Yoshihiko NISHIO	2
Elective		Epidemiology and preventive medicine (exercise)（cm）	Chihaya KORIYAMA	2
Elective		Epidemiology and preventive medicine（cm）	Chihaya KORIYAMA	2
Elective		Medical informatics	Yumiko UTO	2
Elective		Practical training of medical informatics	Yumiko UTO	2
Elective		Seminar in the Legal Medicine	Takahito HAYASHI	2
Elective		Experiment in the Legal Medicine	Takahito HAYASHI	2
Elective		Practice in Psychiatry	Masayuki NAKAMURA etc.	2
Elective		Experiment in Psychiatry	Masayuki NAKAMURA	2
Elective		Practicum in Behavioral Medicine	Akihiro ASAKAWA	2
Elective		Laboratory Course in Behavioral Medicine	Akihiro ASAKAWA etc.	2
Elective		Update on medical and health professions education	Masami TAGAWA	2
Elective		Research project in medical and health professions education	Masami TAGAWA	2
Elective		Behavioral Science in Dentistry (Practice)	Norihiro TAGUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Behavioral Science in Dentistry (Experiments)	Norihiro TAGUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Exercise on bacteriology	Junichiro NISHI etc.	2
Elective		Experimental practice on bacteriology	Junichiro NISHI etc.	2
Elective		Immunology Training	Hiromitsu HARA	2
Elective		Experimental Immunology	Hiromitsu HARA	2
Elective		Practice in Antiviral Chemotherapy	Masanori BABA	2
Elective		Experimental Studies on Antiviral Chemotherapy	Masanori BABA etc.	2
Elective		Molecular Pathology	Ryuji Kubota etc.	2
Elective		Molecular pathology experiment	Ryuji Kubota etc.	2
Elective		Seminar for refractory hematological and immunological disorders	Kenji ISHITSUKA	2
Elective		Experimental study on refractory hematological and immunological disorders	Kenji ISHITSUKA	2
Elective		Molecular and Biochemical Basis of Disease	Shosei KISHIDA	2
Elective		Experimental Biochemistry	Shosei KISHIDA	2
Elective		Reproductive pathophysiology exercises	Hiroaki KOBAYASHI	2
Elective		Exprimental Reproductive Pathophysiology and Obstet-Gynecology	Hiroaki KOBAYASHI	2
Elective	be in preparation	Clinical Research Program of Pediatric Surgery	Satoshi IEIRI	2
Elective		Basic Research Program of Pediatric Surgery	Satoshi IEIRI	2
Elective		Practice in Pediatrics	Yoshifumi KAWANO etc.	2
Elective		Experiments in Pediatrics	Yoshifumi KAWANO	2
Elective	be in preparation	Seminars on Hard Tissue Molecular Biology	Tetsuya MATSUGUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Experiments of Hard Tissue Molecular Biology	Tetsuya MATSUGUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Practice for Oral Bacteriology	Hitoshi KOMATSUZAWA	2
Elective		Research on Oral Bacteria	Hitoshi KOMATSUZAWA	2
Elective		Preventive Dentistry (exercise)（cm）	Takahiko OHO	2
Elective		Preventive Dentistry（cm）	Takahiko OHO	2
Elective		Practice in Orthodontics	Shouichi MIYAWAKI etc.	2
Elective		Experiment in Orthodontics	Shouichi MIYAWAKI etc.	2
Elective		The practice of pediatric dentistry	Youichi YAMASAKI etc.	2
Elective		The experiment of pediatric dentistry	Youichi YAMASAKI etc.	2
Elective		Practice on Island and Community Medicine	Toshiro TAKEZAKI	2
Elective		Experiment on Island and Community Medicine	Toshiro TAKEZAKI	2
Elective		Seminar of community based medicine	Tetsuhiro OWAKI etc.	2
Elective		Practical training of community based medicine	Tetsuhiro OWAKI etc.	2
Elective		Exercise on longevity oral science	Kenji MATSUSHITA	2
Elective		Experiment on longevity oral science	Kenji MATSUSHITA	2
Elective		Seminar in Morphological Sciences	Masahiro SHIBATA	2
Elective		Research on the morphological sciences	Masahiro SHIBATA	2
Elective		Physiology of neurons and muscle cells (Practice)	Yoshiaki TAGAWA	2
Elective		Physiology of neurons and muscle cells (Experiments)	Yoshiaki TAGAWA	2
Elective		Practice of Neurology and Geriatrics	Yuji OKAMOTO	2
Elective		Experimental practice of neurological disease	Hiroshi TAKASHIMA	2
Elective		Practice of Neurosurgical Management	Koji YOSHIMOTO etc.	2
Elective		Experiment of neurosurgical fields	Koji YOSHIMOTO	2
Elective		Practice for orofacial neuroanatomy	Tetsuya GOTO	2
Elective		Experiment for orofacial neuroanatomy	Tetsuya GOTO	2
Elective	be in preparation	Macro Anatomy of the Oral and maxillofacial region (seminar)	Yuichi TAMATSU	2
Elective		Macro Anatomy of the Oral and maxillofacial region (practice)	Yuichi TAMATSU	2
Elective	be in preparation	Forensic dental medicine (seminar)	Yuichi TAMATSU	2
Elective		Forensic dental medicine (practice)	Yuichi TAMATSU	2
Elective		basic practice of ophthalmology	Taiji SAKAMOTO etc.	2
Elective		Experimental practice of ophthalmology	Taiji SAKAMOTO	2
Elective		Practice for analysis of skin pathogenesis	Takuro KANEKURA etc.	2
Elective		Experiment for analysis of skin pathogenesis	Takuro KANEKURA etc.	2
Elective		Practice of Upper respiratory disease	Yuichi KURONO	2
Elective		Experiment of Upper Respiratory Disease	Yuichi KURONO	2
Elective		The Practice of Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine	Ken-Ichiro KOSAI	2
Elective		The Experiments of Gene Therapy and Regenerative Medicine	Ken-Ichiro KOSAI etc.	2
Elective		Orthopaedic Surgery	Noboru TANIGUCHI	2
Elective		Neuro musculoskeletal disorders and reconstruction	Noboru TANIGUCHI	2
Elective		Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine	Megumi SHIMODOZONO etc.	2
Elective		Rehabilitation and Physical Medicine	Megumi SHIMODOZONO etc.	2
Elective	be in preparation	Laboratory and Vascular Medicine Experimental Seminar	Teruto HASHIGUCHI	2
Elective		Laboratory and Vascular Medicine Experimental program	Teruto HASHIGUCHI	2
Elective		Practice of Cardiovascular Disease	Mitsuru OHISHI etc.	2
Elective		Experiment of Cardiovascular Disease	Mitsuru OHISHI etc.	2
Elective		Clinical Practice of Cardiovascular Surgery	Yutaka IMOTO	2
Elective		Basic Research of Cardiovascular Surgery	Yutaka IMOTO	2
Elective		Respiratory Medicine, Training	Hiromasa INOUE etc.	2
Elective		Respiratory Medicine，Experiment	Hiromasa INOUE etc.	2
Elective		General Thoracic Surgery	Masami SATO	2
Elective		General Thoracic Surgery	Masami SATO	2
Elective		Seminar in Physiology	Tomoyuki KUWAKI etc.	2
Elective		Experimental Physiology	Tomoyuki KUWAKI etc.	2
Elective		Seminars in molecular neurobiology	Hiroyuki OKUNO	2
Elective		Laboratory course in molecular neurobiology	Hiroyuki OKUNO	2
Elective	be in preparation	Molecular pharmacology practice	Atsuro MIYATA etc.	2
Elective		Molecular pharmacology experiment	Atsuro MIYATA etc.	2
Elective		Clinical Practice of Anesthesiology	Yuichi KANMURA	2
Elective		Experiments of Anesthesiology	Yuichi KANMURA	2
Elective	be in preparation	Seminar of Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine	Yasuyuki KAKIHANA etc.	2
Elective		Research Program for Emergency and Intensive Care Medicine	Yasuyuki KAKIHANA etc.	2
Elective		Clinical Pharmacokinetics (Practice)	Yasuo TAKEDA etc.	2
Elective		Clinical Pharmacokinetics (Experiments)	Yasuo TAKEDA etc.	2
Elective		Pharmacological practice for learning formation and memory impairment	Tomoaki SATO etc.	2
Elective		Pharmacological experiment for learning formation and memory impairment	Tomoaki SATO etc.	2
Elective		Exercise in Oral Physiology	Mitsuru SAITO	2
Elective		Experiment in Oral Physiology	Mitsuru SAITO	2
Elective		Seminar on Dental Biomaterials	Masafumi KIKUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Experiments on Dental Biomaterials	Masafumi KIKUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Fixed Prosthodontic Treatment Seminar	Hiroyuki MINAMI etc.	2
Elective		Fixed Prosthodontic Treatment Experiment	Hiroyuki MINAMI etc.	2
Elective		Oral and maxillofacial morphology and rehabilitation practice	Masahiro NISHIMURA etc.	2
Elective		Oral and maxillofacial morphology and rehabilitation experiment	Masahiro NISHIMURA etc.	2
Elective		Restorative Dentistry and Endodontology（Exercises）	Yoshihiro NISHITANI	2
Elective		Restorative Dentistry and Endodontology（Experiments）	Yoshihiro NISHITANI	2
Elective		Practicum for molecular pathology, molecular genetics and oral hard tissue regeneration of periodontal disease	Kazuyuki NOGUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Experiments for molecular pathology, molecular genetics and oral hard tissue regeneration of periodontal disease	Kazuyuki NOGUCHI etc.	2
Elective		Seminars for Oral and Maxillofacial Oncology	Tsuyoshi SUGIURA	2
Elective		Experiments for Oral and Maxillofacial Oncology	Tsuyoshi SUGIURA	2
Elective		Exercise of oral and maxillofacial surgery	Norifumi NAKAMURA etc.	2
Elective		Experiments of oral and maxillofacial surgery	Norifumi NAKAMURA etc.	2
Elective		Exercise of Systemic Function Management in Dentistry	Mitsutaka SUGIMURA	2
Elective		Experiment of Systemic Function Management in Dentistry	Mitsutaka SUGIMURA	2
Elective	be in preparation	Tumor Pathology	Akihide TANIMOTO	2
Elective		Experimental Pathology	Akihide TANIMOTO	2
Elective		Radiology (diagnosis and therapy)	Takashi YOSHIURA	2
Elective		Radiology (diagnosis and therapy)	Takashi YOSHIURA etc.	2
Elective		Surgical Oncology and Digestive Surgery	Shoji NATSUGOE	2
Elective		Experimental study on surgical oncology	Shoji NATSUGOE	2
Elective		Urologic Oncology Practice	Masayuki NAKAGAWA	2
Elective		Urologic Oncology Experiment	Masayuki NAKAGAWA etc.	2
Elective		Seminar of Molecular Oncology	Tatsuhiko FURUKAWA	2
Elective		Experiments of Molecular Oncology	Tatsuhiko FURUKAWA	2
Elective		Oral oncology (Seminar)	Ichiro SEMBA etc.	2
Elective		Oral oncology (Experiments)	Ichiro SEMBA etc.	2
Elective	be in preparation	Therapeutics and Diagnostics of Maxillofacial Oncology	Hideyuki MAJIMA etc.	2
Elective		Oral Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Experimental Studies	Hideyuki MAJIMA etc.	2
Elective		Seminars on cancer biology and regenerative medicine	Shyuichiro MATSUBARA	2
Elective		Experimental research in cancer and regenerative medicine	Shyuichiro MATSUBARA	2
Elective		Xenotransplantation surgery ： Immunology lecture	Kazuhiko YAMADA	2
Elective		Xenotransplantation surgery ： Immunology bench-work	Kazuhiko YAMADA	2
Elective		Practice in Regeneration and Reconstructive Transplantation	Masahiro SATO	2
Elective		Practice in Regeneration and Reconstructive Transplantation	Masahiro SATO	2
Elective		Seminar of Neurohumoral Biology	Michihisa JOUGASAKI	2
Elective		Experiment of Neurohumoral Biology	Michihisa JOUGASAKI	2
Elective		Hemato-oncology Experiment	Atae UTSUNOMIYA	2
Elective		Hemato-oncology Experiment	Atae UTSUNOMIYA	2
Elective		Exercise of Clinical and medical oncology	Yoshikazu UENOSONO	2
Elective		Experiment of Clinical and medical oncology	Yoshikazu UENOSONO	2
Elective		Comprehensive Critical Care MedicineⅠ (Practice)	Jun-ichiro HAMASAKI	2
Elective		Comprehensive Critical Care MedicineⅠ（Experiment）	Jun-ichiro HAMASAKI	2
Elective		Comprehensive Child Health and Development Medicine（Practice）	Koji SAMESHIMA	2
Elective		Comprehensive Child Health and Development Medicine（Experiment）	Koji SAMESHIMA etc.	2
Elective		Neonatal Disease（Exercise）	Satoshi IBARA	2
Elective		Neonatal Disease（Practice）	Satoshi IBARA etc.	2
Elective		Comprehensive Cancer Medicine I（Practice)	Takeshi HORI etc.	2
Elective		Comprehensive Cancer Medicine I（Experiment）	Takeshi HORI etc.	2
Elective		Cardiovascular Disease in General Medicine (Practice)	Masaaki MIYATA	2
Elective		Cardiovascular Disease in General Medicine (Experiment)	Masaaki MIYATA	2

Registration Procedures and Submission of Research Plan

1. Class registration is done by selecting courses under the guidance of an academic adviser and submitting a Class Registration Form.
2. Please submit the Class Registration Form to the Graduate School Section, Academic Affairs Division, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences by the designated date. Courses not registered for via the registration procedure cannot be registered and credits cannot be recognized.
3. Please submit the Research Plan to the Graduate School Section, Academic Affairs Division, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences by the designated date and in the designated format upon consultation with your primary academic adviser.