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Asahikawa Medical University 旭川医科大学 
Motto Improvement of health and welfare in the local community Established September 1973 Type National university President Akitoshi Yoshida Admin. staff 1,025 Undergraduates 842 Postgraduates 141 Location Asahikawa, Hokkaidō, Japan Campus Urban,
(0.2 km²)Nickname AMU Mascot None Website [1] Asahikawa Medical University (旭川医科大学 Asahikawa ika daigaku), Kyokui (旭医), or AMU, is a national university and medical school in Asahikawa, Japan.
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History
The precursor of Asahikawa Medical University is the Karahuto Medical College (樺太医学専門学校 karahuto igaku senmongakou) founded in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in 1943. After World War II, Karahuto Medical College was closed down because the nearby island of Sakhalin was occupied by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Red Army. The Asahikawa city government applied to the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers and the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (now the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) for relocation of the medical college to Asahikawa, but they were rejected.
After the rejection, the Hokkaido government planned to form medical schools in both Asahikawa and Kushiro in order to address the shortage of physicians in Hokkaido. In 1973, Asahikawa Medical College was established. At first, the college had only one department: Medicine. Without a campus of its own, it was located within the Hokkaido University of Education campus. AMU moved into its original campus in 1975. In 1996, the department of Nursing Science was founded and in 2010, the college was renamed to the Asahikawa Medical University.
AMU has become the core medical university in Hokkaido with many physicians from AMU working in the local community.
Presidents
There were two presidents of the Karahuto Medical College. There have been seven presidents of Asahikawa Medical University, including the current president, Professor Akitoshi Yoshida, who has been in office since 2007.
Karahuto Medical College Presidents[2] Name Beginning of Term of Office End of Term of Office Prof. Takumi Ochi 1943 1944 Prof. Eiji Arima 1944 1946 Asahikawa Medical University Presidents[3] Name Beginning of Term of Office End of Term of Office Prof. Morihide Yamada 1973 1981 Prof. Kazuhide Kuroda 1981 1987 Prof. Akihisa Shimoda 1987 1991 Prof. Tetsuya Shimizu 1991 1997 Prof. Yoshihiko Kubo 1997 2003 Prof. Nao Yachiku 2003 2007 Prof. Akitoshi Yoshida 2007 present Campus
The campus is located in Asahikawa. The campus is divided into four areas: lecture and practice area, clinical lecture area, laboratory area, and hospital area. Each areas are connected by a hallway enough so people travel between the areas in cold weather.
Asahikawa Medical University Hospital
Asahikawa Medical University Hospital
The Asahikawa Medical University Hospital was founded in 1976 as a teaching hospital for AMU. It has 602 beds, and becomes one of the core hospitals in the northern and southern area in Hokkaido.[4]
It is famous for two of its research projects: care for intractable leg, and low back pain by epiduroscopy, and radical surgery for uterine corpus carcinoma with laparoscope.
There have been eight presidents of the AMU hospital, including the current president, Professor Takeo Matsuno, who has been in office since 2007.
Asahikawa Medical University Library
The Asahikawa Medical University library was founded in 1978. It currently has about 160,000 prints of books and journals, and 10,000 digital resources. These resources include not only about medical but also about education, mathematics, and other liberal arts.[5]
Faculties and graduate schools
AMU has one faculty with two departments and six departments.
Departments
- Department of Medicine
- Department of Nursing
Centers
- Center of Education
- Center of University Health
- Center of Parental Care
- Center of Labware
- Center of Data processing
- Center of telemedicine
Partner universities
AMU has partnerships with eight universities.[6]
Hokkaido College of Pharmacy- Kitami Institute of Technology
- Japanese Red Cross Hokkaido College of Nursing
Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine- China Medical University
- Harbin Medical University
Mahidol University
Udayana University
Famous alumni
- Akitoshi Yoshida - ophthalmologist and current president of the University
- Tokio Miki - politician and doctor. Former president of Takefu Fukui
- Keiko Nobumoto - scenario writer, responsible for the screenplay for Cowboy Bebop
See also
- Japanese national university
- List of medical schools in Asia
References
External links
Asahikawa Medical University • Asahikawa University • Hokkaido University of Education • Tokai UniversityCategories:- Educational institutions established in 1973
- Japanese national universities
- Schools of medicine in Japan
- Nursing schools in Japan
- Universities and colleges in Hokkaidō
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