Tokyo Medical and Dental University

Tokyo Medical and Dental University
東京医科歯科大学
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Motto	Cultivating Professionals with Knowledge and Humanity ; 知と癒しの匠を創造する
Type	National university; Medical school
Established	1928
President	Takashi Ohyama; 大山喬史
Academic staff	677
Undergraduates	1,380
Postgraduates	1,409
Other students	255
Location	Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan
Campus	Urban
Colors	Bloom Gold ; Mission Blue
Mascot	None
Website	tmd.ac.jp

Tokyo Medical and Dental University (東京医科歯科大学, Tōkyō ika shika daigaku) or TMDU in short,^{[note 1]} is a Japanese national university in Tokyo.

Structure

TMDU has three campuses. One is the Kounodai (国府台) campus. The closest station to the campus is Ichikawa Station. Freshmen learn liberal arts and sciences there. By being on the outskirts of Tokyo, Kounodai campus is in a rich natural environment. The others are Yushima (湯島) and Surugadai （駿河台） campus. The closest station to the campuses is Ochanomizu Station. Upperclassmen learn their speciality there.

TMDU has faculty of medicine and faculty of dentistry.^[3]^[4] There are also two graduate schools, medical and dental sciences and health care sciences; four undergraduate faculties - medicine, dentistry, health care sciences and oral health care sciences; two university hospitals;^[5] an undergraduate college of liberal arts and sciences; and two research institutes, the institute of biomaterials and bioengineering and the medical research institute.^[6]

Outline

The university was founded under the name of "Tokyo National School of Dentistry" as the first dental education institution in 1928. Then in 1951, it was reestablished with the faculty of medicine as Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

In world university ranking in 2011-2012 of Times Higher Education, TMDU is the 276~300th place, the 35th place in Asia, the 10th place in Japan.

Goals

TMDU's education philosophy is:

To give students a broad education and a rich sensibility
To teach creative people who can diagnose and solve problems by themselves
To teach medical professionals with a rich international quality

Notable alumni

Getting into TMDU

To enter TMDU, students should pass 2 types of exams: the common test for university admissions and the university's own exam.

Access

Yushima campus

2-minute walk from Marunouchi Line, Ochanomizu Station
3-minute walk from JR Chūō-Sōbu Line, Ochanomizu Station
4-minute walk from Chiyoda Line, Shin-Ochanomizu Station

Kounodai campus

10-minute walk from Keisei line, Konodai Station
20 mitutes by bus from JR Chuo / Sobu Line, Ichikawa Station

Features

Sparkling lights from the TMDU laboratories until midnight all year round is one of the features of Ochanomizu.

On Christmas Day, there are sparkling lights in the shape of a Christmas tree on M&D Tower.

Akio Suzuki (the previous president of TMDU) was known as a respected doctor of cardiac surgery. In Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack (a Japanese manga), he was introduced as "Prof. 'S' of University 'J'". Prof. 'S' refers to Akio Suzuki and University 'J' refers to Juntendo University in Tokyo.

Yushima campus buildings

M&D Tower

　…on your left side when looking from Ochanomizu Station.

Medical Building

　…in the middle of M&D Tower and Dental Building.

Dental Building

　…on your right side when looking from Ochanomizu Station.

Notes

↑ TMDU is an English acronym. TMDU stands for "Tokyo Medical and Dental University".

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "TMDU Overview 2010 / Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2011.
↑ "Number of students". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2011.
↑ Farrell, S. E., Takada, K., Armstrong, E. G., Tanaka, Y., & Aretz, H. T. (2009). Reform of a traditional clinical curriculum in Japan: experiences at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Medical teacher, 31(10), 947-949.
↑ Sunakawa, M., & Matsumoto, H. (2009). Effectiveness and difficulty of education on nosocomial infection control for pre-clinical practice in the clinic, so-called inclusive clinical practice phase I, for students in the Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Kokubyo Gakkai zasshi. The Journal of the Stomatological Society, Japan, 76(1), 25-30.
↑ Sunakawa, M., Matsumoto, H., Harasawa, H., Tsukikawa, W., Takagi, Y., & Suda, H. (2006). Inspection by infection control team of the University Hospital, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Kokubyo Gakkai zasshi. The Journal of the Stomatological Society, Japan, 73(2), 184-191.
↑ Tanaka, H., & Nakaya, J. (2007). Research and education for biomedical informatics at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Yearbook of medical informatics, 16(01), 157-162.

Other websites

Media related to Tokyo Medical and Dental University at Wikimedia Commons

TMDU website (in English)

[3] TMDU is an English acronym. TMDU stands for "Tokyo Medical and Dental University".

[TMDU_Overview_2010-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "TMDU Overview 2010 / Statistics" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2011.

[2] "Number of students". Archived from the original on 21 July 2011. Retrieved 24 May 2011.

[4] Farrell, S. E., Takada, K., Armstrong, E. G., Tanaka, Y., & Aretz, H. T. (2009). Reform of a traditional clinical curriculum in Japan: experiences at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Medical teacher, 31(10), 947-949.

[5] Sunakawa, M., & Matsumoto, H. (2009). Effectiveness and difficulty of education on nosocomial infection control for pre-clinical practice in the clinic, so-called inclusive clinical practice phase I, for students in the Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Kokubyo Gakkai zasshi. The Journal of the Stomatological Society, Japan, 76(1), 25-30.

[6] Sunakawa, M., Matsumoto, H., Harasawa, H., Tsukikawa, W., Takagi, Y., & Suda, H. (2006). Inspection by infection control team of the University Hospital, Faculty of Dentistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Kokubyo Gakkai zasshi. The Journal of the Stomatological Society, Japan, 73(2), 184-191.

[7] Tanaka, H., & Nakaya, J. (2007). Research and education for biomedical informatics at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. Yearbook of medical informatics, 16(01), 157-162.

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