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Undergraduate Course

Fundamental Education Programs

Outline of the Curriculum

The undergraduate course at Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine is designed to provide students with a comprehensive education in medicine. The curriculum is divided into several areas, including premedical education, introduction to medicine, basic medicine, social medicine, and clinical medicine.

1) Premedical Education

From the 1st to 2nd year, students complete "premedical education subjects" at Higashiyama campus. These subjects are divided into 3 areas: liberal arts education, language and cultural subjects, and basic science subjects. Students learn specific themes, literatures, and reference materials, and participate in field work and presentations. Biology is a key subject, with lectures on biochemistry, molecular biology, genetics, and cell biology.

2) Introduction to Medicine

In the introduction to medicine, a course is offered as a special subject by the School of Medicine. Lectures are given on an introduction to nursing care, medicine and medical care, mental preparation, and medical ethics. Students experience care of the handicapped, physically challenged, or those at a nursing home, and write a report after the experience.

3) Basic Medicine

From the 2nd year, lectures and practices mainly focus on anatomy, physiology, and biochemistry. From the third year, lectures and practices introduce pharmacology, microbiology, immunology, and pathology. The second semester of the third year is dedicated to training for medical research, where students gain research experience in basic or social medicine laboratories.

4) Social Medicine

The curriculum of Social Medicine is composed of four series of core lectures and a practice of social medicine. Students learn about epidemiology, preventive medicine, occupational and environmental health, public health, and health systems. They also study legal medicine, medical law, and bioethics.

5) Clinical Medicine

The core of the clinical medicine curriculum consists of clinical PBL tutorials, mandatory lectures, and core elective lectures. Students gain knowledge, skills, and attitude for self-learning and group-learning, and master basic knowledge of core clinical subjects.

6) Bedside Learning

The basic objectives are for students to gain basic skills, knowledge, and attitude necessary for clinical medicine. In the 5th year, students rotate through various clinical departments for 1 to 2 weeks.

7) Clinical Clerkship (selective) I,II

Students select 2 subjects out of all clinical medicine subjects and gain practical knowledge, skills, and attitude through clinical clerkship.

8) Other Practices

• Basic clinical skills training: introduced for 4th year students, lasting 28 weeks.
• Lecture and practices on evidence-based medicine (EBM): introduced for fourth-year students, lasting 16 periods.

Program Details

• The program is designed to foster medical researchers and physicians who can serve a leading role in the future.
• Students are expected to write a report after their experience in introduction to medicine.
• All students are expected to give either oral or poster presentation at the end of the seminar in basic medicine.
• Teachers and students evaluate the result and select the best paper and the second best paper.
• Students learn about various public health issues, including maternal and child health, school health, community health, and long-term care of the elderly and handicapped.
• Students are expected to be able to write death certificates after studying legal medicine, medical law, and bioethics.