TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY

Tokyo Medical University Educational Foundation
TOKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY AN EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
The Tokyo Medical University Education Foundation is striving to establish and maintain a university and for the teaching of basic medicine and medical skills and other associated schools in conjunction with the Basic Educational Law and the Schools Educational Development Law.
- Schools of Tokyo Medical University and staff numbers - - Officers -
Medical School of Tokyo Medical University 120 persons Chairman of the Board of Regent Keiji TANAKA
Graduate School of Tokyo Medical University 68 persons Executive Regents Noriyasu SEKIGUCHI
Nursing School 80 persons Masao KANAZAWA
Kasumigaura Nursing School 40 persons Tetsuo YUKIOKA
Regents 15 persons
A BRIEF HISTORY
May 1916   More than 450 students from the Japan Medical College resigned en masse and began working toward the establishment of a new school.
September 1916   Tokyo Medical Teaching Establishment was established within the campus of Tokyo Academy of Physics.
April 1918   Permission granted for the establishment of Tokyo Medical School (Chairman of the Board, Takuya Takahashi, President of the School, Tatsujiro Sato).
May 1931   Opening of the Yodobashi Affiliated Clinic (later amalgamated with the Hakusai Hospital and renamed Yodobashi Hospital).
May 1946   Establishment of Tokyo Medical College is authorized and the Yodobashi Hospital is renamed Tokyo Medical College Hospital.
March 1949   Permission granted to establish a kyusei (old-style) university faculty.
September 1949   Establishment of Tokyo Medical College Kasumigaura Hospital in Ami-machi, Inashiki-gun, Ibaraki Prefecture.
January 1955   Permission for the establishment of a six-year medical university based on the new revised system.
March 1957   Permission to establish a graduate school.
April 1964   Permission granted to establish a Tokyo Medical College affiliated nursing vocational school.
April 1975   Permission granted to establish a Tokyo Medical College affiliated nursing vocational school in Kasumigaura.
April 1976   Establishment of a six-year unified curriculum.
April 1978   Tokyo Medical College affiliated nursing vocational schools are given recognition as specialized schools of nursing, and renamed Tokyo Medical College School of Nursing, Tokyo Medical College Kasumigaura School of Nursing.
April 1980   Establishment of Tokyo Medical College Hachioji Medical Center in Hachioji, west Tokyo.
April 1986   Completion of the new Tokyo Medical College Hospital in Shinjuku.
April 1998   English name changed to Tokyo Medical University.


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