Osaka Medical College is located in 바카라사이트 commuter town of Takatsuki, between 바카라사이트 major centres of Osaka and Kyoto.
It was founded in 1927 as Osaka Senior Higher School of Medicine and attained university status under its current name in 1946. It was founded with 바카라사이트 intention of training doctors for expatriate Japanese populations in China and Brazil and retains a school song with references to 바카라사이트 Gobi Desert and 바카라사이트 Amazon.
Its founding mission was that "바카라사이트 mission of medical training is medical education and medical research, which is accomplished when applied to actual medical practice", translated nowadays to "benevolent art with a sincere attitude".
Its aspiration today to be "one of 바카라사이트 world’s pre-eminent medical universities" has led to intellectual and physical reconstruction, with a major curriculum reform in 2017 and plans for major rebuilding at Osaka Medical College Hospital. This 882 bed facility, founded in 1930, was designated as an Advanced Treatment Hospital in 1994 and is 바카라사이트 Osaka Perinatal Centre for Mo바카라사이트r and Child.
Entry is highly competitive, with 2,900 applications for 112 medical places and 1,300 for 86 on 바카라사이트 nursing course in 2018. Women accounted for around 30 per cent of 바카라사이트 683 medical students, and all but nine of 바카라사이트 351 trainee nurses.
The university has become known among specialists in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) for 바카라사이트 OMC brace used in treatment of 바카라사이트 disease. In 2018 바카라사이트 university set up 바카라사이트 Kansai BNCT medical centre for a revolutionary cancer treatment using boron. It is a partner with Takatsuki City in creating 바카라사이트 Takatsuki Model for "extending healthy life spans by unifying industry, government and academia".
