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Dokkyo Medical University
獨協医科大学
Students631
Location
Mibu
,
Tochigi
,
Japan
Dokkyo Medical University

Dokkyo Medical University (獨協医科大学, Dokkyō ika daigaku) is a private university in Mibu, Tochigi, Japan, established in 1973.

Dokkyo University is located in the town of Mibu Machi, Tochigi Prefecture, about two hours north of Tokyo by train.

History

Although the history Dokkyo Medical University is not long, Dokkyo Gakuen has passed over 100 years. Amane Nishi, Aritomo Yamagata, and Taro Katsura established Doitsugaku Kyokai Gakko in the early Meiji era: 1883. Doitsugaku Kyokai Gakko in Tokyo became Dokkyo Gakuen. After World War II, Dokkyo Gakuen established a junior and senior high school in 1946.

In 1964, Dokkyo Gakuen established Dokkyo University in Saitama for its 80-year anniversary. Then, Dokkyo Gakuen established a medical school, Dokkyo Medical University in 1973. Its main hospital and Koshigaya Hospital of Dokkyo Medical School are the center of clinical medicine in northern area of Kanto. The Faculty of Medicine was beginning to play the main role in the Dokkyo University, which resulted in the change of the school's name from Dokkyo University School of Medicine to Dokkyo Medical University in 2007.

It was founded by Minato Seki.

Academics

Dokkyo Medical University has been one of the easiest medical schools to enter in Japan.[1]

Undergraduate programs

  • School of Medicine (B.S.): Department of Medicine
  • School of Nursing (B.S.): Department of Nursing

Graduate program

  • Graduate School of Medicine (Ph.D. in Medicine)
  • Graduate School of Nursing (Ph.D. in Nursing)

Student and staff numbers

Students: 631 (male: 391; female: 240)

Faculty

  • Professors: 74
  • Associate professors: 88
  • Full-time instructors: 150

Attached institutions

  • The medical information center
  • The institutions of general medicine

Hospitals

  • The main hospital
  • Koshigaya Hospital

Dokkyo Gakuen

  • Dokkyo University
  • Dokkyo Medical University
  • Dokkyo Junior High School & Senior High School
  • Dokkyo Saitama Junior High School & Senior High School

External links

References

  1. ^ http://www.yozemi.ac.jp/rank/gakubu/index.html


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