PROSPECTUS2023-2024

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Educational GoalThe educational goal is to produce doctors and nurses with a sense of culture, ethics, and the spirit of scientific inquiry as well as a humanis-tic orientation that enables them to maintain the utmost respect for human life and treat modern-day challenges professionally. Basic ConceptEducation, research, and medical services are conducted to equip students with a sense of culture and ethics from an international view-point. This also cultivates in them the spirit of scientific inquiry, alongside medical and nurs-ing sciences, thus supporting community development and the welfare of humanity.OutlineLocated in Izumo City, our campus consists of almost 350 academic staff and almost 900 un-dergraduate students. The Faculty of Medicine has 36 departments in the School of Medicine and 3 departments in the School of Nursing. The undergraduate course for the School of Medicine lasts 6 years and the School of Nurs-ing lasts 4 years.21https://www.med.shimane-u.ac.jp/english/index.htmlFaculty ofMedicine