Diploma Policy

In accordance with our founding principles, our university will certify graduation and award degrees to students who have acquired the following abilities:

Able to practice multi-disciplinary collaboration and cooperation.
Able to practice preventive medicine and health education and support local medical care.
Have a broad perspective on local and international communities and be able to fulfill social responsibilities.
Be aware of your responsibilities as a medical professional and be able to provide medical care and welfare with an altruistic attitude.

They have a broad education and a well-rounded personality, and are able to view patients and their families as holistic people.
Able to practice medicine for patients and citizens.
Able to maintain high ethical standards and contribute to medical safety.
Good communication helps build relationships of trust and cooperation.

You will acquire high levels of expertise, broad knowledge, and excellent skills, and be able to solve problems.
Possess the creativity and research capabilities to lead the next generation of medical science.
Be able to understand and utilize developing cutting-edge information, science and technology.
You can continue learning for your whole life.

School of Medicine will certify the graduation of students who have acquired the required credits and achieved the learning outcomes listed below, and award a Bachelor of Medicine degree.

1. Have a sense of mission as a physician and be able to autonomously contribute to improving health and social welfare.
2. To understand the diverse regional characteristics of Hyogo Prefecture and be able to act based on community medicine and preventive medicine.
3. To be able to utilize the international perspective and language skills that they have acquired to actively participate in global health.
4. To be able to understand the structure and dynamics of society, and to act for support, assistance, and social development.
5. Have a sense of belonging to our university and be able to act in accordance with the responsibilities of a physician.
6. Ability to respect the dignity of life and adhere to medical ethics, and protect the rights of patients and the general public.
7. Ability to utilize communication skills to build trusting relationships and cooperate and collaborate with all people involved in medical care.
8. Ability to understand and empathize with the physical and mental suffering of patients and other people, and address medical problems.
9. Ability to continue lifelong study with a spirit of scientific inquiry and maintain an attitude of learning together with others.
10. Ability to optimize medical care and medical research by grasping issues comprehensively and scientifically and utilizing cutting-edge information and science technology.
11. Ability to utilize basic medical skills acquired and respond to emergency and crisis management.
12. Have the basic knowledge as a physician to practice high-quality and safe medical care.

The School of Pharmacy will certify the graduation of students who have acquired the required credits and the abilities listed below, and will award a Bachelor's degree in Pharmacy.

1. Possess the rich humanity necessary for medical professionals, a high sense of ethics that respects the dignity of life, a sense of mission and responsibility as a pharmacist responsible for medical care, health, welfare, nursing care, and public health, protect the rights and interests of patients and other people, and possess the human qualities to contribute to people's health and happiness with an altruistic attitude.
2. Ability to communicate with patients and residents while respecting their perspective, and cooperate and collaborate with other medical professionals to provide high-quality patient- and community-centered medical care, welfare, and public health.
3. Ability to comprehensively utilize specialized knowledge of chemical substances and living organisms, as well as pharmaceutical knowledge of diseases and medicines, and to understand not only the patient's pathology but also their psychological and social backgrounds, and to practice pharmaceutical management, such as drug therapy and prescription suggestions that are optimized for each individual patient.
4. Ability to utilize knowledge of local medical care, health, welfare, etc. to contribute to the promotion of health of local residents, improvement of public health, infection control, and environmental conservation.
5. Have the motivation to engage in research activities and the skills, information gathering ability, logical thinking ability, and scientific inquisitiveness required for research, as well as the ability to identify and solve problems related to pharmacy and medical care.
6. Have the ability to continue self-improvement and learning autonomously throughout one's life in order to respond to the advancement and diversification of medical care and the progress of information, science and technology.

School of Nursing will certify the graduation of students who have acquired the required credits and the abilities listed below, and will award a Bachelor's degree in Nursing.

1. Have a broad perspective on the local and international communities and be able to fulfill social responsibilities as a nursing professional.
2. Understand the expertise and roles of multiple professions and be able to cooperate and collaborate by utilizing the expertise of nursing professionals.
3. To understand nursing subjects holistically and to respect the dignity of human beings and life.
4. Have a high level of ethics and be able to contribute to protecting the rights of subjects and medical safety.
5. Ability to build trusting and cooperative relationships with nursing clients and multiple professions
6. Ability to acquire a wide range of knowledge and skills in specialized fields and provide nursing care to achieve optimal health for people.
7. Have the creativity and basic research skills to lead the next generation of nursing science, and be able to continue learning throughout one's life.

School of Rehabilitation certifies the graduation of students who have earned the required credits and acquired the abilities listed below, and awards a Bachelor's degree in Department of Physical Therapy Physical Therapy and a Bachelor's degree in Department of Occupational Therapy of Occupational Therapy.

1. You can take action to contribute to people's happiness and health.
2. To be able to understand diverse cultures and values from the local to the international community.
3. Ability to cooperate and collaborate with various specialists as a member of a medical team and community medical care.
4. To be able to understand the medical science, healthcare, health, welfare, administration, etc. necessary for practicing physical therapy and occupational therapy.
5. Ability to practice basic physical therapy and occupational therapy to address the problems faced by patients.
6. We can respond to problems at each phase, from the acute phase to the recovery phase, and the period of living in a facility or at home.
7. Ability to put into practice efforts to solve clinical problems in various fields.
8. I can continually hone my skills and improve myself together with others.

In accordance with its founding principles, our graduate school will award degrees to those who have acquired the following abilities, earned the required credits, and passed the examination:

Possess a rich personality and can contribute to society.
Ability to deeply understand different languages and cultures and to exchange widely.
Possess deep knowledge and advanced lifelong learning capabilities.
You can provide generous education to your colleagues and juniors.

They are able to show compassion and sympathy towards patients and other socially vulnerable people.
Have a strong sense of ethics regarding research.
By communicating appropriately with subjects and other researchers, relationships of trust and cooperation can be built.
Able to respond appropriately to research subjects such as test subjects.

Be able to identify essential academic problems and design research.
They have highly specialized knowledge and cutting-edge, outstanding research capabilities.
He has a wide range of knowledge and can provide insight from multiple perspectives.
Able to understand and utilize developing advanced information, science and technology.

Graduate School of Medicine will award a Doctor of Medicine degree to those who have acquired the following abilities, earned the required credits, and passed the examination:

1. Have a rich and generous personality and be able to build good human relationships.
2. Possess a deep education and a strong desire for lifelong learning.
3. An academic mindset is cultivated.
4. A noble spirit of human love is cultivated.
5. High medical and research ethics are cultivated.
6. Able to build appropriate relationships of trust and cooperation with research subjects in research involving human subjects.
7. To be able to properly manage laboratory animals that contribute to human welfare in a spirit of animal welfare.
8. Be able to identify essential problems in medicine and develop original research plans.
9. You will be able to find solutions to problems by making full use of developing, advanced information and science technology.
10. Have acquired advanced medical knowledge and cutting-edge, excellent research capabilities.
11. Able to logically interpret and discuss research results.
12. To disseminate research results to the world and to give back to society at large, thereby contributing to the advancement of medicine and healthcare.

Graduate School of Pharmacy awards a Doctoral Degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences to those who have acquired the required credits, acquired the abilities listed below, and passed the examination.

1. Have a rich and generous personality, adhere to research ethics, have a spirit of scientific inquiry, and possess the motivation and ability to improve oneself and continue research independently throughout one's life.
2. Ability to identify research problems and develop research plans to solve them.
3. Ability to research related and previous research and to critically examine it from multiple perspectives.
4. Have the ability to acquire advanced specialized knowledge and scientific research skills and utilize them in research.
5. Acquire the communication skills of a researcher and have the presentation skills to announce research results.
6. Ability to write papers to disseminate research results to the world and society.

Graduate School of Nursing will award a Master's degree in Nursing to those who have acquired the required credits, acquired the abilities listed below, and passed the examination.

1. Ability to utilize advanced nursing practice skills and play a central role in promoting cooperation and collaboration within medical, health, and welfare teams.
2. Ability to take an international perspective, grasp medical issues from multiple angles in an increasingly diverse society, and address nursing issues.
3. Possess advanced nursing practice skills and basic research skills based on rich humanity and high ethical standards.

Graduate School of Nursing will award a Doctoral Degree in Nursing to those who have acquired the required credits, acquired the abilities listed below, and passed the examination.

1. Ability to identify issues in nursing practice from a global and interdisciplinary perspective and to autonomously conduct research that contributes to the development of nursing science.
2. Have the ability and attitude to cooperate and collaborate with nursing researchers and nursing practitioners both in Japan and overseas, and contribute to the improvement and quality of medical care in clinical practice and in the community, including in other countries.
3. Have the ability to promote research in the field of nursing practice and to implement research findings into nursing care.
4. Have the educational ability to guide nursing professionals who will lead the next generation.

Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science awards a Master's degree in Rehabilitation Science to those who have acquired the required credits, acquired the abilities listed below, and passed the examination.

1. To master rehabilitation science and be able to carry out research based on the basic knowledge necessary for carrying out research.
2. Acquire knowledge of research ethics and be able to conduct research activities with a high level of ethical awareness.
3. Be able to focus research questions and identify research topics based on one's own clinical experience and previous research.
4. Be able to plan and implement an appropriate research plan to solve a research question.
5. Be able to communicate the results of your research to others through appropriate writing and effective presentations.
6. To pursue pioneering knowledge in rehabilitation science and related fields.

Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science recognizes the completion of students who have acquired the required credits and achieved the following goals, and awards a Ph.D. in Rehabilitation Science.
The abilities that students should acquire by the time of graduation are as follows:

1. Research management skills
They have the ability to design research related to rehabilitation science and manage the entire research process, from developing a research plan, conducting the research, analyzing data, summarizing results, and writing a paper.
2. Logical thinking ability
They have the ability to think things through logically and tackle various research projects with a broad perspective.
3. Creativity
Have a forward-thinking perspective and the creativity to take on new challenges.
4. Communication skills
In addition to conducting research, students have the ability to disseminate the results of their research related to rehabilitation science to the world at large through international conferences and international journals.