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Public health nursing is an independent nursing occupation in Japan. All public health nurses (PHNs) are educated as nurses and public health nurses and have licensure as a registered nurse and separate licensure as a PHN. The minimum length of education and training required to receive licensure in Japan is three years for nurses and one year for PHNs. There are various PHN educational programs in Japan, such as graduate school Master’s courses; undergraduate courses; junior college non-degree courses; four-year special training college courses for nurses and PHNs; and one-year PHN schools. Our faculty believes that PHNs should be educated and trained at the graduate level to improve the quality of their practice, so OUNHS was the first school in Japan to establish a Master’s degree PHN course in 2011.

The Graduate School of Health Sciences (master's and doctoral programs) aims to train leaders and researchers with a high degree of research capacity in the field of health sciences. The Graduate School of Health Sciences consists of two educational research fields, Human Health Development and International Island Health, which conduct unique educational research regarding health and longevity on Okinawa, physical, psychosocial, and cultural factors that influence health, the development of health resources, and advanced healthcare technology, and island health in the Asia-Pacific region. We also promote the globalization of graduate education by encouraging graduate students to present their research at academic conferences such as the Asia Pacific Academic Consortium for Public Health. Those who complete the doctoral course potentially work as researchers and leaders in universities, hospitals, laboratories, and international organizations.

OUNHS established a Health Sciences Master’s major and a Health Sciences PhD course in our Graduate School in 2009 to promote advanced research in non-nurse medical and healthcare professionals. These courses are very unique in universities and colleges of nursing in Japan. They were established for medical doctors, registered dietitians, radiation technologists, pharmacists, medical technologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists, and health and exercise trainers. The six specialty areas of the Master’s major are Health Physiology; Environmental Health Science; Physical Fitness and Sports Science; Radiological Health Science; Health Informatics and Biostatistics; and Mental Health. Education in the Master’s course is characterized by both day and night instruction, small class sizes, and mentor-group instruction. Two mentors with expertise in the course specialty area supervise student research from an interdisciplinary perspective. Students also receive statistical support and use statistical software such as SPSS, SAS, MATLAB and S-PLUS to process and interpret experimental and survey data.

Our Graduate School aims to foster researchers and educators to become specialist nurses with advanced nursing practice competence and able to promote improvement in the quality of life (QOL) and well-being of people who have various levels of health and have a diversity of values.

Students delve deeply into the intricacies of physical and mental health, studying from a broad range of disciplines that includes basic medical sciences, clinical medicine, mental health, nutritional science, physical education, and sports science based on their own interests and goals for the future. With a rich education in medical care and an advanced level of practical skills, students are molded into generalists in the sports and health sciences field, capable of exhibiting their skills in a wide range of areas in society.

旭川医科大学Pediatrics Course was established in 1974, the year after the university was founded. This university was established as the northernmost medical university in Japan, but due to its regional peculiarities, patients with serious or intractable diseases in northern and eastern Hokkaido are concentrated. For this reason, in collaboration with the university, related hospitals in northern and eastern Hokkaido, newborn medical care at Asahikawa Welfare Hospital NICU, medical care for children with developmental disabilities at the Prefectural Asahikawa Physically Handicapped Children Comprehensive Care Center, and medical care for physically and mentally handicapped children at Hokkaido Nursery School. We have formed a comprehensive pediatric medical center and are engaged in education, medical care, and research activities.

Demand for nurse practitioners continues to grow with the sophistication, complexity, and diversity of medical care. In particular, university graduates who received a 4-year nursing education only account for 10% of all the nurse practitioners and therefore leadership positions are in demand. For 4 years, based on a rich curriculum filled with basic knowledge of medicine and nursing technology and by using the latest audio-visual teaching materials, students will develop their sense and knowledge of health, medical care, welfare, and public administration in the area of facility and community nursing practice. In addition, to meet advanced needs, we set up the campus of the Nursing Department inside Chiba-East-Hospital. We are the first nursing education provider in Japan to tie up with a national hospital organization. We also founded "Shukutoku Kyoseien", a special nursing home, at the same time when we established the Nursing Department. Students will have practical training here to acquire nursing knowledge and skills that are required by the field of welfare.

The purpose is to develop autonomous midwives who have the knowledge and skills as professionals who contribute to the development and improvement of local perinatal care and maternal and child health, and who have the practical ability to support midwifery and women's lifelong health maintenance. will do.

The Graduate School of Health and Welfare was established for the purpose of training human resources with advanced knowledge and skills regarding health and welfare services for health promotion for people, based on the interdisciplinary fusion of social welfare, nursing, and nutrition. it was done. Our goal is to train human resources who can "help" people to live healthy in their lives, from "born", "bred up", "active in society" to "going to death". I think. Yamaguchi Prefectural University Graduate School is open day and night to open the door to people who are active in society. Why don't you study at the Graduate School of Health and Welfare and clarify it together in order to hone the knowledge and technology that supports the higher level of human health required by society from "various perspectives"?

We have designed a special course in the Field of Nursing. Specialized courses comprise of cancer nursing, women’s health nursing, child nursing, nursing management, geriatric nursing, mental health nursing and chronic care nursing, and community care. Health problems and liver problems have become diversified and complicated, and consequently, the environment surrounding nursing has changed dramatically. In this field, we expect the students to acquire the ability to conduct theoretical research for nursing practices as well as practical capabilities in nursing. We also emphasize the ability to solve problems in terms of the QOL of the people with complex nursing problems at all levels of health, i.e. from the period of disease prevention, recovery, and up to the end-stage diseases.

We provide education aimed at "the best medical care in Japan" . Completed normal medical examination in 2 years while studying basic medicine in "early clinical training" in the lower grades, and after reviewing from abnormal to normal in 4 years "PreCC OSCE pre-training" , in 5 or 6 years We will review it by using simulation and bedside teaching. By repeatedly studying medical examination techniques over a period of 6 years, you will be able to develop a high level of "ability to examine patients" .

The specialization available in our doctoral program is in “Health and Sports Science”, for which enrollment capacity is set at 10 students. Graduates are awarded the degree of “Ph.D. (Health and Sports Science).”

As society ages, the birth rate decreases, and many people are highly stressed, so how to sustain health is important for people of all ages and genders to understand. Students acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to promote the health of the mind and body while also working toward obtaining relevant accreditation.

Midwifery is an independent nursing occupation in Japan. All midwives are educated as nurses and midwives and have licensure as a registered nurse and separate licensure as a midwife. The minimum length of education and training required to receive licensure in Japan is three years for nurses and one year for midwives. There are various midwifery education programs in Japan, such as graduate school Master’s courses; undergraduate courses; undergraduate non-degree programs; undergraduate special courses; junior college non-degree programs; and vocational schools. The current midwifery environment in Japan is characterized by the progression of our declining birthrate, the aging of expectant mothers, a lack of obstetricians, a decrease in parturient facilities, and a concurrent advancement of perinatal medicine and assisted reproductive technology. Therefore, midwives are required to possess advanced diagnostic and practical midwifery skills and the ability to collaborate with other medical professionals including obstetricians.