Gifu University and Tottori University Joint Graduate School ofVeterinary Sciences, Joint Major of Veterinary Sciences
https://vetsci.gt-jdvm.jp/en

Selection of enrollees : Twice a year*
Enrollment month : April and October
Number of applicants : 6

Entrance Exam
Information

Please refer to the Student Application Guidelines (available alsoon website).

Please refer to the Student Application Guidelines (available alsoon website).

https://www.gifu-u.ac.jp/admission/g̲applicant/guide.html

http://www.admissions.adm.tottori-u.ac.jp/graduate

Please follow the directions on Student Application Guidelines
and submit the necessary documents to the address below bythe due date.

Test Guide

Please follow the directions on Student Application Guidelines
and submit necessary documents to the address below by thedue date.

Test Guide

1-1 Yanagito, Gifu City, Gifu 501-1193
Applied Biological Sciences Joint Veterinary Science,Gifu University
TEL.+81-58-293-2987 FAX.+81-58-293-2992
E-mail renju@gifu-u.ac.jp

Contact

Gifu University and Tottori University

Selection of enrollees : Twice a year*
Enrollment month : April and October
Number of applicants : 5

Entrance Exam
Information

4-101 Koyamacho-minami, Tottori City, Tottori 680-8553
Tottori University Joint Department of Veterinary Sciences,
Department of Agricultural Science
TEL.+81-857-31-5365 FAX.+81-857-31-5347
E-mail ag-kyoudouj@adm.tottori-u.ac.jp

Contact

Joint Graduate School ofVeterinary Sciences,
Joint Major of Veterinary Sciences
Doctoral Program* The second enrollment period may not be available depending on the status of the first enrollment. Please contact each university for the availability of the second enrollment period.

ACCESS⬆Yamagata

Gifu University

Sea of Japanshi

Meitetsu Gifu
JR Tokaido LineGifu

Meitetsu Gifu
StationApproximately
30 minutes

➡

anin

Gifu Kakamigahara I.C.➡
⬇NagoyaApproximately
20 minutesby taxi

Gifu
University

1-1 Yanagito, Gifu City, Gifu 501-1193
TEL.+81-58-230-1111 https://www.gifu-u.ac.jp/en/

Line

Tottori PrefecturalGovernment

Coca Cola Bottlers Japan Inc.
Sports Park
Tottori West I.C.
⬅Yoshioka onsen I.C.
29

Meitetsu Kakamigahara Line

Approximately
25 minutes
by direct bus

Main

JR Tottori
StationApproximately
7 minutes

Totto
ri

53

Tottori I.C. Okayama⬇

JR Tottori
Daigaku-mae
StationApproximately 25 minutes by bus
Tottori Airport

Tottori City Hall⬆KyotoApproximately
20 minutes

JR Gifu
Station⬇Hashima

JR S53i Line⬇Gifu Hashima I.C.

Takayama➡

KoyamaJR Inb

Meitetsu
NagoyaStationSECOM
Tottori Daigmae aku-Koyama Pond

Tottori Prefectural
Central Hospitalssi Bypa
Tottor

9Sendai River

JR NagoyaStationoTottori University

156

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Government

Tottori Airport

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Tottori Expressway⬅Ogaki⬅Y

Tottori Minami Bypassoha

Meitetsu Main Line

Nishigifu

Seki➡

Kinkazan
Gifu City Hall77
⬅Maibara

Ukaiohashi

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Gifu Memorial Center
Nagarabashi

Ona

Kagashimaohashi

Nagaragawa

Kinkabashi

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Gifu Belt LineawairagSagiyama

Kyo
toKurifunebashi

Tottori Sand Dunes

Tottori PortHimeji⬇

Approximately
3 minutes
on footToridaimae

Tottori
0 minutes Universityon footWe train specialists with ahigh level ofexpertise andinternationalawareness.

Approximately 5 minutes by taxi

4-101 Koyamacho-minami, Tottori City, Tottori 680-8550
TEL.+81-857-31-5007 https://www.tottori-u.ac.jp/English/
2019.07

Established in 2 019

We train specialists with a high level of expertise and international awareness.
Overview of the Graduate School

Target human resources to be trained (Diploma policy)

This Graduate School promotes advanced research in a wide range offields on animal and human health including the health of the ecosystem,
as well as training veterinary science educators and researchers, who cancontribute to advanced veterinary science. We also have the philosophyof education research to train veterinary science specialists withadvanced knowledge and technology, and expertise and ethics, who
can take a leading role in international and regional societies. With thisphilosophy, we are aiming to contribute to maintaining and developing aprosperous society by producing advanced veterinary science specialists
who have acquired both academic and practical skills in these fields as
Animal hygiene and public health specialists, One Health(*) specialists,
or Treatment of intractable diseases and drug discovery specialists.

1

Human resources who have advanced expertise and research skills in veterinary
and animal sciences.

2

Human resources who can act as local leaders who respond to social demands
by exercising creative research and communication skills based on a wide interdisciplinary background and a global viewpoint.

3

Human resources who can deal with or resolve various issues in veterinary andanimal sciences as specialists in veterinary hygiene, public health, in One
Health or in intractable disease treatment/drug discovery and development.

Flow of degree acquisition
In this Graduate School, 1 principal supervisor and 2 vice-advisors (one being afaculty member of the other university), making a total of 3 faculty members, will
be teaching, and students may use the facilities of both universities.
The requirement for a “doctoral degree (veterinary medicine)” is to earn at least
30 credits (10 credits or more in courses offered by the other university) from theeducation curriculum of the Graduate School, and undertake the necessary
research training; followed by doctoral degree thesis review, and to pass the final
exam on the thesis detail and field of expertise. Those who have completed thecourse of the Graduate School will be granted a doctoral degree (veterinaryscience) under the names of Gifu University and Tottori University.

“Overview of courses in education curriculum”* The concept of integrating people, animals, and the environment to view health on a global scale

Alumni of Joint Department of Veterinary Sciences
Training for specialists on overall living organisms who cancontribute to the promotion of animal health, improvementof public health, and the maintaining of health in humansociety and the environment.

Gifu University and Tottori University
Joint Graduate School of Veterinary Sciences
Course structure

From generalist to specialist〜 Training for specialists in 3 advanced veterinary fields 〜This Graduate School will include training for advanced veterinary science specialists based on general veterinary science undergraduates. In addition to education for researchers, in order to train resources to become
regional leaders, taking advantage of the characteristics of both universities (Animal hospital and ResearchCenter for Wildlife Management, etc. at Gifu University; University Veterinary Medical Center, Avian Zoonosis
Research Center, etc. at Tottori University) and past research achievements, the following 3 specialists trainings
has been established to build an education curriculum that is directly connected to social issues (needs).

Animal hygiene andpublic health specialists

One Healthspecialists

Specialists in the fields of animal
hygiene and public health with theability to respond quickly to domestic
animal infectious diseases, such asavian influenza and foot-and-mouthdisease, and food safety issues, aswell as taking a regional leading role(prefecture and municipalities)

Specialists with advanced expertise,leadership, and communication skills
to meet international issues relating to
infectious disease control of humans,animals, and the environment, such as
zoonosis and drug-resistant bacteria

Treatment ofintractable diseases anddrug discovery specialists
Clinical veterinarians who can contributeto local communities as leaders inadvanced medical centers such as intractable disease treatment, and researchersand educators who are responsible for thedevelopment of technologies and drug
discovery to clinically apply the results ofbasic research to clinical practice

Basic Veterinary Science Course

Advanced basic veterinary science
research on veterinary and animal
science

Pathology/Applied Veterinary Science Course

Research on basic disease research
and advanced applied veterinaryscience regarding control

Clinical Veterinary Science Course

Advanced animal clinical medical
research in companion and industrial
animals

Specialist education
Animal hygiene

Transboundary infection

Treatment of intractable diseases

Public health

Emerging and re-emerging
infectious diseases

New drug discovery

Local veterinary affairs

Zoonosis
Ecosystem conservation
International veterinary affairs

Animal hygieneand public healthspecialists

One Healthspecialists

Advanced veterinary medicine

Internationalstudents

Going on to further education

Common Courses at Graduate School

Basic Education Courses

Regenerative medicine
Elderly diseases

Treatment ofintractable diseases anddrug discovery specialists

Businesspeople

1st year

Gifu University

Alumni ofotheruniversity

1st and
2nd year

Tottori University

2nd, 3rd, 4th year

Faculty from Gifu and Tottori Universities will participate in education andresearch for their students throughdaily communication, through the useof teacher mobility, student mobility,and distance learning systems, toestablish effective guidance for training veterinary science educators andresearchers.

2nd and 3rd year

Characteristics of the Graduate School

Courses to acquire skills that are commonly requiredin Graduate School

Courses to acquire knowledge which will make up the basis
for training specialists and researchers in their respective fields

Specialist Training Course
Three courses to acquire the advanced
expertise required to train specialists

Animal hygiene and public health specialists

Acquisition of knowledge
and presentation skills
which will make up thebasis for research andspecialist training
Academic learning forEnglish skills that can beused internationally inglobal activities
Ethics education related
to research activities

Research Promotion
CourseA course to promote researchto create doctoral degree thesis
in each field of expertise

One Health specialists

Research Promotion
Special Experiment

Treatment of intractable diseases and drug discovery specialists

Progress Seminar(2nd, 3rd, 4th year)

Advanced Education Course
A course to cultivate career image and diverse research views

Joint workshops with faculty andstudents of veterinary graduate
schools overseas

Research activities and presentationsat research institutes and affiliatedorganizations in Japan and overseas

Hands-On training at affiliatedorganizations

Creating a thesis

Research and Development Promotion Center for Veterinary Science Education
We have established the Research and Development Promotion Center for Veterinary Science Education
for the realization of a smooth collaborative system between universities regarding the Graduate School
education, aiming to promote Graduate School education and collaborative education with external affiliated organizations, and to develop a connection between the undergraduate stage and Graduate School
education related to veterinary medicine.

Regional leaders(prefectures and municipalities)

Domestic animal infectious disease
control researchers/educators

International contributions andhuman resources(OIE, WHO, government agencies, etc.)

Zoonosis control researchers/educators

Translational researchers(drug discovery etc.)

Advanced veterinary medicine
researchers/educators

Developing skills
as a specialist

Developing advanced
professional research skills