Objective in Establishing the College
The objectives of Gunma Prefectural College of Health Sciences (hereafter referred to as the “college”) are to teach and conduct research on advanced knowledge and skills related to health and medical care, and to foster health and medical care professionals who are well educated and have a well-rounded character. It is also designed to contribute to improving health, medical care, and welfare services for prefectural residents by having the results of this research contribute to the local community.
Educational and Research Objectives of Each Undergraduate School and Graduate School
◇Undergraduate Schools◇
<School of Nursing>
The objectives of the School of Nursing are to deepen students’ interest in humanity and the environment and cultivate in them a well-rounded character by having them learn how to contribute to maintaining and raising the level of health of the residents of Gunma Prefecture and various other people who live in different regions over the course of their lifetimes. It also instills in them specialized knowledge and skills that are backed by scientific evidence and excellent faculties for logical judgment, as well as a foundation for pursuing autonomous development and nursing studies in their capacity as nursing professionals. It also aims to cultivate human resources who have a sense of duty and the motivation to contribute to society and aspire to engage in creating and developing new nursing practices that will spread not only within Japan but internationally as well in the future.
<School of Radiological Technology>
The objective of the School of Radiological Technology is to cultivate human resources who can contribute to both the international community and local society and who have the motivation and energy to resolve problems that they discover on their own through logical consideration and flexible thinking backed by scientific evidence. In order to achieve this, it academically systematizes a new type of radiological technology and rebuilds and develops a curriculum centered around people from a perspective that sees the patients as human beings, and then provides students not only radiological technology that consists of a combination of traditional science, engineering, and medicine, but also human dignity; bio-, medical, and technological ethics; and the functions and roles of team medical care, which enables them to undertake a diverse array of practices.
◇Graduate Schools (Graduate School)◇
<Graduate School of Nursing>
The ultimate objective of the Graduate School of Nursing is to have its students practice nursing that is grounded in scientific evidence with a view toward contributing to maintaining and raising the health level of people who live in different regions over the course of their lifetimes. It also expands and develops nursing and nursing education studies that are constantly undergoing innovation while also promoting research geared towards subsequent innovations. In addition, through the results of this research, it fosters human resources who can support learning in an ongoing and independent manner with a view towards staff development (which refers to cultivating nursing personnel who can provide high quality education) and faculty development (which refers to cultivating nursing teaching faculty who can provide high quality education and research).
<Graduate School of Radiological Technology>
The Graduate School of Radiological Technology fosters advanced medical care professionals who have abilities that enable them to undertake a diverse array of practices, capabilities for carrying out practical research, and problem solving abilities from a standpoint of offering guidance concerning radiological technology in local health and medical care. It also cultivates human resources with basic capabilities as researchers who can proactively promote the academic systematization of radiological technology, as well as new technical innovations for studies on radiological imaging examinations and radiation therapies and examinations. The graduate school also fosters human resources with basic capabilities as educators who can contribute to the education of medical care professionals.