Tokyo Medical University

Tokyo Medical University (TMU) (東京医科大学) is one of the pre-war-established medical schools in Japan. According as the nation’s policy for medical education, this private university has 6-year medical school that offers preclinical and clinical studies to confer bachelor's degree or graduate degree with which medical students can be qualified for the national exam for medical license. TMU also has its postgraduate school (“graduate school”, or daigakuin, in Japanese term) which offers Ph.D.

Profile
Founded as Tokyo Isen in 1916, TMU is one of the old medical schools of Japan’s Taishō era. The school received university status in 1946.

University Hospital
Several of tertiary care teaching hospitals being affiliated with TMU include Tokyo medical university Hospital. Founded in 1931, this 1,091-bed hospital, featuring a medical staff of nearly 1,800 is located in Nishi-Shinjuku skyscraper-district, the new center of Tokyo.

Collaboration with WHO
World Health Organization (WHO) and the department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health  at TMU collaborate in addressing noncommunicable diseases and mental health issues. The institute, WHO Collaborating Center for Health Promotion through Research and Training in Sports Medicine, which opened 1991 has worked on building health communities and populations.

Communication
In 1989, International Medical Communication Center was founded in TMU.