Section of Clinical Medicine

Overview

This section was created as an organization of faculty members of the Institute for Excellence in Higher Education which was newly established in April 2014. Its most important role is not only to plan the activities handled until then by the Student Health Care Center to support students in terms of health and hygiene, but also to plan more effective measures through analyzing the health information that has been gathered in the process. For this reason, the section is considered to represent the continuation of the Student Health Care Center itself. The history of the Student Health Care Center can be traced back to the student clinic said to have been established in 1927, making it more than 90 years old. The Health Administration Center itself was established in 1969 by the Ordinance of the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture. Its everyday duties are intended to enable students to live healthy and safe lives on campus through services including health management, health guidance, diagnosis, and emergency services, based on the philosophy of “contributing to the creation of a healthy society through properly identifying, treating, and preventing student illness while carrying out health maintenance and promotion, in order to produce human resources who are healthier in both body and mind.”

 

This section is not just involved in the “Health Care” of general education. It is also responsible for the health informatics course (cooperative course) of the Graduate School of Information Sciences and the Graduate School of Medicine’s informatics on pathophysiology field (cooperative field) and carries out graduate education and research.

Scene from the special health check-up for students: dental examination.

Scene from the Anti-tuberculosis diagnostic check-up

Scene from the periodic student health check-up: chest x-ray inspection.

Initiatives of Research and Educational Activities

The educational activities of this section include the implementation of health science seminars and the publication of health leaflets such as the health guide, in addition to health consultation, diagnosis, periodical health examination, special health examination, post-treatment and nutrition consultation which are all conducted at the Student Health Care Center. In terms of the research activities, it plans and draws up effective health measures through analyzing the health information that has been gathered at the Student Health Care Center. It also conducts research on the causes and the state of diseases that threaten students’ health, and develops remedies.

 

April: Health examination for new students

May: Periodic health examination for students over 2nd grade

May-March: Re-examination of those who were identified as requiring more detailed examination at the time of the periodic health examination

June and December: Special health examination for those who handle radiation

July and December: Special health examination for those students who handle organic solvent

October: Special health examination for those students who engage in VDT work

November: Tuberculosis examination

 

Activities of academic societies to which each faculty member belongs according to each specialized area

July: Japan University Health Association’s research meeting in Tohoku Region

October: Japan University Health Association’s research meeting

 

 

Graduate School of Information Sciences: Lectures on health science

Liberal education: Lectures on body and health

Student Health Care Center’s seminars (from September to January)

 

 

Student Health Care Center’s annual reports

Health guide

 

Faculty members

Chair of Section Professor

Yoshitaka Kinouchi

(Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology)
  Professor

Chihiro Ito

(Psychiatry)
  Associate Professor

Susumu Ogawa

(Internal Medicine and Diabetology)
  Associate Professor

Shunsuke TATEBE

(Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine)
  Assistant Professor

Hiroki Kita

(Dentistry and Health Informatics)
  Assistant Professor

Saori Yamamoto

(Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Medicine)
  Assistant Professor

Masashi Ninomiya
  Assistant Professor

Daisuke DOUCHI
(Gastrointestinal Surgery and Stem cell)
  Assistant Professor

Muneyuki MATSUMURA
(Surgery)

 

 

Location

41, Kawauchi, Aobaku, Sendai, 980-8576, Japan

(Student Health Care Center)