群馬大学大学院 医学系研究科生命医科学専攻 入学案内2018（英語版）

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GUNMA UNIVERSITYGraduate School of MedicineAdmission guidance 20182Graduate School of Medicine１　Aim of Master’s Program for Biomedical Sciences Recent advances in life sciences and information sciences have opened up abundant prospects for applying the achievements of basic research within bio-related industries and new medical services, including drug discovery and regenerative medicine. At the same time, there is a need to solve many challenges, such as medical ethics and information security that are associated with advanced medical technology, and community healthcare support in our aging society, which are opening up a wide range of potential roles for medical researchers and health professionals. Many doors are being opened to non-medical school graduates and trained researchers, educators, and/or highly skilled workers who can exercise leadership in the life sciences and medical elds. However, there is a looming shortage of researchers/educators able to respond to the needs of society and who can take an active role in Biomedical Sciences, this new interdisciplinary eld between life sciences and medicine. There is also a growing number of non-medicine, non-veterinary, and non-dentistry graduates who are hoping to pursue their interest in life science research or medical elds; however, before these graduates can enter a graduate school of medicine to take a PhD course, they either need to have obtained a Master’s Degree or must have more than two years’research experience at a university or research institute. Gunma University Graduate School of Medicine has been shifting its focus of interest to new interdisciplinary elds. For example, in 2003, we re-organized our Medical Sciences Course (Doctoral Program) and our research and educational system into a basic plus clinical integrated style, and established a PhD program in health sciences, now being run by the Graduate School of Health Sciences. The implementation of a day/evening course system for both programs allowed us to oer the course to mature students not from only the medical and health science elds, but also from related elds. However, we were still unable to accept graduates from facilities other than medicine, veterinary, or dentistry directly to our medical sciences course. In response to increasing demand, and to broaden our intake of graduates from other faculties, we have established a Biomedical Science Course (Master’s program) within the Graduate School of Medicine. This program aims to educate non-medical school graduates in the fundamental knowledge and skills needed to engage in the type of independent research that increasingly underpins medical and life sciences, and to foster leadership in medical-related elds on the part of health professional experts.２　Research conducted in Biomedical Sciences Biomedical Sciences is a general term for the life sciences eld, which overlaps medicine, life sciences, and other medical interdisciplinary elds. The Biomedical Sciences Course is designed to draw together life sciences and traditional basic medicine/clinical medicine as educational and research subjects to promote the elucidation of biological processes from a medical perspective and to establish Biomedical Sciences as a discipline that is aimed at the creation of new medical care: not only diagnosis and treatment, but also the promotion of health and improvement of quality of life.Outline of Biomedical Sciences （Master’s Program）