Message from the Dean

Let's produce talented people who will open up the future of rehabilitation!

The current era is said to be VUCA. VUCA is an acronym of four words: Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, and refers to a state of rapid change that makes it difficult to predict the future. In the field of rehabilitation, unprecedented contributions are being called for, such as expectations for active participation in a super-aging society that humanity will face for the first time, and the need to respond not only to people with illnesses or disabilities, but also to people who have some kind of difficulty in life or are at risk of having such difficulties. In that sense, we are at a major turning point.

In the late Edo period, a time of upheaval similar to today, Katsu Kaishu, the Edo Shogunate Navy Commissioner, opened a private school in Kobe to provide Western-style naval education. It is said that students gained cutting-edge knowledge and techniques, as well as an international perspective, that were not available anywhere else at the time. Sakamoto Ryoma and others who received instruction here developed a broad perspective that looked to the future, and would later become key players in the Meiji Restoration.

Our graduate school inherits the spirit of the Kobe Naval Academy from 160 years ago, and aims to provide cutting-edge rehabilitation education and produce talented people who will pave the way to the future. To that end, in addition to our master's degree program, we have started a doctoral program from 2025. If you are a student who has the enthusiasm to create new ways of providing rehabilitation in an unpredictable era, we would like you to join us without the constraints of academic cliques, so please come and enroll in our graduate school.

Dean of the Graduate School of Rehabilitation
Ryuji Kobayashi

Founding spirit, mission, purpose, educational goals, and three policies

Mission and Objectives Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science

Mission

Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science aims to develop talented individuals with expertise in medical fields such as physical therapy and occupational therapy who will acquire a wide range of knowledge in areas such as medicine, healthcare, health science, and psychology, and who will be able to scientifically and multifacetedly analyze the effects of rehabilitation interventions for a wide variety of illnesses and the elderly, and who will be able to apply the results of their research to the local community, as well as to become researchers and educators with excellent research capabilities and highly advanced professionals.

Purpose

Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science has established Course of Rehabilitation Science, which aims to train highly skilled professionals who can provide medical care incorporating the latest knowledge and technology in the field of rehabilitation, as well as researchers and educators who can generate evidence from various data analyses and propose new medical treatments.

Master's Program Purpose/Educational Goal

Purpose

Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science has two fields in the field of rehabilitation science: pathophysiology and human activity science, and aims to produce talented people who will contribute to society by teaching the theories and techniques required in each field. We foster people who can promote educational and research activities and people with advanced clinical practice skills.

Educational Objectives

Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science aims to cultivate human resources who have acquired the following abilities:

1. To acquire the scientific basis and the latest specialized knowledge in rehabilitation science, and to cultivate a wide range of knowledge as a medical professional.
2. To acquire more advanced specialized knowledge and research capabilities in the field of one's major, and to cultivate the qualities that will enable one to strive for further development and improvement.
3. We will develop the qualities necessary to become a leader who can develop clinical practice based on scientific evidence and contribute to the training of the next generation.
4. You will work on research projects in your field of specialization and develop your research skills.

Doctoral Program Purpose/Educational Goal

Purpose

By developing initiatives aimed at the pursuit and creation of rehabilitation science, we aim to foster researchers who can take on the further development of this field and highly skilled professionals with outstanding research capabilities.

Educational Objectives

Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science has the educational goal of nurturing talented individuals who have the following abilities:

1. Talent who can generate evidence in the field of rehabilitation science through their own research
2. Talent who can play a leading role in driving rehabilitation science
3. Human resources who can contribute to the formulation of local health plans in collaboration with local governments
4. Human resources capable of developing equipment in the field of rehabilitation science through industry-academia collaboration
5. Talent who can play an active role in the international field of rehabilitation science