, , or AMU, is a

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and

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Asahikawa, Hokkaido is a city in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital of the subprefecture, and the second-largest city in Hokkaido, after Sapporo. It has been a core city since April 1, 2000. The city is currently well known for the Asahiyam ...

, Japan. Established in 1973, the university has one faculty, Faculty of Medicine, consisting of Department of Medicine and Department of Nursing. The affiliated Asahikawa Medical University Hospital was established in 1976.

History

The precursor of Asahikawa Medical University was the founded in

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in 1943. After

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, Karahuto Medical College was closed down because the nearby island of

Sakhalin Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh: ...

was occupied by the

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. The Asahikawa city government applied to the

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and the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture (now the

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) for relocation of the medical college to Asahikawa, but they were rejected. After the rejection, the Hokkaido government planned to form medical schools in both Asahikawa and

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in order to address the shortage of physicians in Hokkaido. In 1973, Asahikawa Medical College (旭川医科大学) was established, with an educational philosophy of . At first, the college had only one department: Medicine. Without a campus of its own, it was located within the

Hokkaido University of Education is a national public university administered by the government of Japan. It has five campuses in Hokkaido, Japan. The main campus is on the outskirts of Sapporo, the capital of Hokkaido. Hokkaido University of Education, Sapporo (HUES) is the la ...

campus. AMU moved into its original campus in 1975. In 1996, the department of Nursing Science was founded and in 2010, the college was renamed to the Asahikawa Medical University. AMU has become the core medical university in Hokkaido with many physicians from AMU working in the local community.

Presidents

There were two presidents of the Karahuto Medical College. There have been seven presidents of Asahikawa Medical University, including the current president, Professor Akitoshi Yoshida, who has been in office since 2007.

Karahuto Medical College presidents

Asahikawa Medical University presidents

Campus

The campus is located in

Asahikawa is a city in Kamikawa Subprefecture, Hokkaido, Japan. It is the capital of the subprefecture, and the second-largest city in Hokkaido, after Sapporo. It has been a core city since April 1, 2000. The city is currently well known for the Asahiy ...

. The campus is divided into four areas: lecture and practice area, clinical lecture area, laboratory area, and hospital area. Each areas are connected by a hallway enough so people travel between the areas in cold weather.

Asahikawa Medical University Hospital

The Asahikawa Medical University Hospital was founded in 1976 as a

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for AMU. It has 602 beds, and becomes one of the core hospitals in the northern and southern area in Hokkaido. There have been eight presidents of the AMU hospital, including the current president, Professor Takeo Matsuno, who has been in office since 2007.

Asahikawa Medical University Library

The Asahikawa Medical University library was founded in 1978. It currently has about 160,000 prints of books and journals, and 10,000 digital resources. These resources include not only about medical but also about education, mathematics, and other liberal arts.

Faculties and graduate schools

AMU has one faculty with two departments and six centers.

Departments

*Department of Medicine *Department of Nursing

Centers

* Center of Education * Center of University Health * Center of Parental Care * Center of Labware * Center of Data processing * Center of telemedicine

Partner universities

AMU has partnerships with eight universities.Partnership
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* Kitami Institute of Technology * Japanese Red Cross Hokkaido College of Nursing *

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References

External links

AMU Official website

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