1. Essential Information
1-1 Background
Since the late twentieth century, we have renewed our recognition of the threat incurred
by many emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases that often originate in tropical
and developing countries. The speed at which these infectious diseases spread from one
country to another has been accelerating due to ever-expanding economic activities and
international travel. This recognition has brought tropical medicine, the field of
medicine with which we address these issues, back into the limelight.
The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Nagasaki University is the only school
in Japan that offers a PhD course in emerging infectious diseases and tropical medicine.
Within this graduate school, the Institute of Tropical Medicine has played a central role
in medical research in the tropics and provided human resources for disease control
programs abroad for nearly seventy years.
In April 2006, the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at Nagasaki University
launched the Master of Tropical Medicine course with the aim of (1) equipping medical
doctors with practical knowledge and problem-solving skills that are directly relevant to
clinical practice in the tropics, and (2) contributing to global efforts to reduce the impact
of tropical and infectious diseases.
1-2 Admission requirements
This course aims to provide students with the opportunity to learn a broad range of
skills and knowledge relevant to practicing medicine, formulating disease control
programs, and conducting medical research in tropical and developing countries. It also
aims to provide students with the ability to solve practical problems they are likely to
encounter in the tropics by applying the principles and methods of epidemiology and
state-of-the-art molecular medicine.
This program attracts students from a variety of countries and cultural backgrounds.
Nagasaki University fosters an atmosphere of collaborative learning through discussion
and group work across national and cultural boundaries.

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