Undergraduate tuition and fees 2.5 million JPY (2012) Phone +81 3-3351-6141 | Total enrollment 1,248 (1 May 2015) Founded 1946 | |
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Tokyo Medical University (TMU) (東京医科大学, Tōkyō Ika Daigaku) is one of the medical schools established in Japan before World War II. In accordance with the nation’s policy for medical education, this private university has a six-year medical school curriculum that offers 'preclinical' and 'clinical' studies to confer a bachelor's degree or graduate degree with which medical students are qualified for the national medical licensing exam. TMU has a postgraduate school (graduate school or daigakuin in Japanese) that offers a Ph.D.
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Founded as Tokyo Isen in 1916, TMU is one of the older medical schools of Japan’s Taishō period. It received university status in 1946.
University Hospital
The tertiary care teaching hospitals affiliated with TMU include Tokyo Medical University Hospital. Founded in 1931, this 1,091-bed hospital, featuring a medical staff of nearly 1,800, is in Nishi Shinjuku, a new center of Tokyo.
Collaboration with the WHO
The World Health Organization (WHO) and the department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health at TMU collaborate in addressing noncommunicable diseases and mental health issues. The "WHO Collaborating Center for Health Promotion through Research and Training in Sports Medicine," which opened up in 1991, has thus far worked on building health communities and populations.
Communication
In 1989, International Medical Communication Center was founded in the TMU.