AY 2025
Entrance Examination Guideline for the
Application Guide
for Professional Degree Program
School of Public Health
令和７(2025)年度公共健康医学専攻
募集要項 入学試験案内- Entrance Examination Guideline（入学試験案内）- Outline of the Curriculum（授業科目概要について）- Tips for Preparing the Application Form
（入学願書作成時の注意事項について）- Past Exam
（過去問について）東京大学大学院医学系研究科
Graduate School of Medicine
The University of TokyoAY 2025 Entrance Exam Guidelines
Professional Degree Program,
School of Public Health (Professional Graduate School)
Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo
The School of Public Health aims to produce highly-advanced professionals capable of performing
leadership and practical roles in the field of public health in order to maintain, promote and restore health aswell as to enhance the quality of life of a broad range of people including patients, local residents, and thecommunity.
The School of Public Health accepts 30 students; approximately 20 students in the 2-year course and 10
students in the 1-year course (standard program duration of 1 year).

1. Outline
Japan is currently facing a number of public health challenges, such as declining fertility, population
aging, the emergence & reemergence of infectious diseases, the threat of bioterrorism, suicide and work
related death, widening health gap, and threatened sustainability of healthcare systems.
The School of Public Health delivers education with the aim of producing highly-advanced professionals
equipped with techniques for quantitative analysis of population health, system thinking of social andhealthcare systems, and a public health-oriented mindset with excellent capabilities for health policy
making and healthcare management.
The curriculum consists of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, Clinical Epidemiology, Health Economics, HealthCommunication, Mental Health, Health Sociology, Health Education and Behaviors, Biomedical Ethics,
Primary Health Care, Health Policy, Healthcare Informatics, Forensic Medicine/ Medical Law, Medical
Safety Management, Health Risk Management, Environmental Health, and Theory and Practice ofOccupational Health. Students can obtain a (professional) master's degree in public health by taking 30 ormore credits of both compulsory and elective subjects from this curriculum.

2. Practical experience requirements for the 1-year course
Prospective students must satisfy the Professional Degree Program eligibility criteria and possess thefollowing practical experience at the time of application.
Years of practical
Eligibility criteria
Applicable practical experience
experience
4-year university
graduate

3 years or more

6-year university
graduate(medicine/dentistry/veteri
nary medicine) or
master's course
graduate

2 years or more(includes physician &other clinical training)

Practical healthcare experience at:healthcare-related administrative agencies;
public health insurance agencies; healthcare
facilities such as hospitals and clinics; longterm care facilities; pharmaceutical industry;
healthcare industry; other healthcareorganizations (NPOs/ NGOs)

Points to note:(1) Applicants must submit their certificate of employment as proof of the term of theiremployment.
(2) Applicants who wish to maintain their employment at a government office, school, hospital, or
private company during enrollment are required to submit a consent form (format optional)

from their employer when completing the admission procedures according to 5(3) in the“Application Guide”. The document should state that their manager consents to the fact thatthey will enter our school maintaining the employment.
(3) Examples of practical healthcare experience include: qualified physicians, dentists,
veterinarians, pharmacists, or public health nurses employed by an administrative or
healthcare organization for at least 32 hours/week, although other types of experience may
also be admitted. To confirm whether your practical experience qualifies before submitting anapplication, please submit the following documents to the Graduate Student Affairs Section
to arrive by Wednesday, May 31 2023: A) Curriculum Vitae (be sure to include your current
contact details); B) Certificate of employment. Upon confirmation of the submitted documents,
prospective applicants will be directly notified of the results in advance of the application
period.

3. Entrance exam subjects
Exam subject
Foreign Language

Specialized Subject

Content

Remarks

English (3 questions)

Reference use (e.g. dictionary andtranslator) not permitted.

①General health sciences/social
medicine

Basic public health sciences &social medicine(20 multiple choice questions)②General Statistics

Basic Biostatistics(20 multiple choice questions)③Choose 4 out of the following
specialized fields:- Epidemiology- Biostatistics- Preventive healthcare- Health education- Mental health- Public health ethics- Health law- Public health survey
methodology- Biomedical Informatics④Short essay

All essay questions.
Preventive medicine includes healthmanagement.

Essay will be used in the oral exam.
Write an essay on a public healthissue and measures to deal with itbased on your practical experience.

Details of the entrance exam schedule and venue will be provided in the 'Examinee Guidelines'
posted with the Exam Card after submission of applications.

4. Guidance for Prospective Students
The School of Public Health will provide guidance for prospective students as follows:
Date: Saturday, May 25, 2024
Venue: Tetsumon-Kinen Auditorium 14F, Experimental Reserch Bldg. &Online.
Please check the following website for further information.

https://www.m.u-tokyo.ac.jp/english/daigakuin/apply/appguidemain.html#5

5. Benefit from Japanese government employment agency
Please see the relevant parts on Japanese version.

Outline of the curriculum
Subject

Description

Epidemiological Research In addition to lectures on basic epidemiological research methodologies,& Practicestudents learn through case studies of the problems which arise when puttingthese methodologies into practice, as well as ways to overcome them. The core
themes of this subject are: epidemiological thought; demonstrating causative
relationships; understanding disease onset and ensuring reliability; introduction
to epidemiological research design; bias and error variance; controlling bias,
particularly confounding; role of statistical analysis; research ethics &consent/protection of privacy; genetic epidemiology; research outcome
feedback; and preventive medicine etc.
Practice & Assessment in Students learn primarily through case studies about practical initiatives linked to
Public Healthoccupational & community preventive health based on member feedback of
medical checkup results and epidemiology research outcomes. The core
themes of this subject are: setting and evaluation of health objectives;
development of implementing organizations & allocation of roles/costs;
obtaining member consent & information feedback/communication; privacy &protection of personal information; occupational health initiative case studies(role of occupational health physicians); community health initiative case studies(role of public health nurses) etc.
Statistics Analysis of
By learning about medical research design, statistical hypothesis testing &Medical Data
confidence intervals, sample size design, contingency table data analysis,
regression & correlation, stratified analysis, model-based analysis, survival
analysis, and multivariate analysis techniques, students acquire the basic
knowledge and practical abilities required for statistical analysis of medical data.
Practicum in Medical
Students learn about the main statistical methods covered in 'Statistical Analysis
Statisticsof Medical Data' using actual cases with JMP statistical software. Students also
conduct a group work of statistics exercise using an open-data eStat(https://www.e-stat.go.jp/), then improve their understanding of the results
through presentation and debate.
Design of Medical
This subject comprises lectures on epidemiological research & clinical trial
Research
design and actual research management. The aim is to equip students with thebasic knowledge required to understand studies published in key journals, andto hone their protocol drafting skills as well as the ability to participate in a
research office through teamwork. The core themes of this subject are: research
design types & characteristics; protocol preparation; drug approval review;
quality control & quality assurance; data management; and drafting of academic
papers & CONSORT・STOROBE statements;
etc.
Clinical Epidemiology
Subjects of clinical epidemiological studies exist in clinical practice.
Researchers must find out research questions in clinical practice, make a study
hypothesis and an appropriate study design, make statistical analyses withavailable data and make clinically valid interpretation of the results. The course
provides theories and practical skills of clinical epidemiology that are essential
for implementing clinical studies.
Clinical Epidemiology
The course provides hands-on training to help students write their research
Exercise
protocols for fund application through lectures and tutorials. The course also
provides how to write medical literature.
Health Economics
The course provides basic knowledge about health economics and basic
methods for health economic analyses. Through lectures and group debates,
students learn how to apply theories of health economics to actual health policy
issues.
Health Communication
The course overviews major areas and topics of health communication includinginterpersonal communication in healthcare settings to media communication,and introduces current research, practice and education in healthcommunication. Students learn basic theories and methodologies as well as
methods of analysis and evaluation in health communication.
Health Communication
Students practice skills for health communication to learn practical applications
Practiceof the theories and methodologies introduced in Health Communication lecture,and to learn how to make effective health communication in various healthsettings including healthcare institutions, government, academic andeducational institutions, patient organizations, and mass media.
Seminar in Healthcare
The seminar provides the basics of medical technology evaluation. Students will
Technology Assessment
learn a series of health economic evaluation methods such as collection ofclinical outcome and cost information for cost-effectiveness analysis, quality oflife evaluation, decision tree and Markov modeling, cost-effectivenesscalculation, and sensitivity analysis.

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SubjectDescription

Credits

Seminar in Healthcare
Not offered for 2024AY
Organization Management

2

Overview on Clinical
Medicine

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For non-physician students. The course provides basic knowledge of clinicalmedicine. Students will learn medical terminology and develop basic skills forreading medical articles.
Medical research data
The course provides the overview of CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange
management and CDISC
Consortium) Standards, which are determined be obligatory to regulatory new
standards
drug submission in Japan, U.S.A, and EU, and will be widely used for medical
research data collection, exchange, archiving, etc. in medical research ingeneral besides regulatory clinical research around the world.
Cancer Epidemiology
The course systematically provides the basics of cancer epidemiology, including
geographical distribution and time trends of cancer incidence/mortality, toeffectively identify preventable factors. Cancer registration, analytic
epidemiological analysis, systematic review/meta-analysis, evidence based
cancer prevention will be treated in class with international and domestic
practice cases.
Mental Health I
The course provides epidemiology of mental disorders in Japan and othercountries, methodology to assess mental health, and current evidence forprimary, secondary & tertiary prevention of mental disorders. Students will learn
about collaboration and leadership with group members, and exercise to develop
mental health measures.
Mental Health II
The course provides traumatic stress, perinatal mental health and workplacemental health, which are among the most important topics in mental health,through lectures and discussions. It aims to develop the ability to propose,
implement and promote specific measures in trauma-informed care, perinatal
mental health and occupational mental health as public health experts.
Health Education
The first half of the course provides theoretical basis for understanding healthrelated behaviors and designing health educational intervention programs at
micro and macro levels. Through in-class discussion, students will criticallyrealize a presumed view of human and society, strength and limitations of eachtheory. The latter half of the course applies theories to real settings in workplace,community, healthcare settings, and school.
Health Sociology
The course provides a showcase of sociological theories of health and medicine,to encourage students to critically consider roles and meanings of health, illness,and medical/public health activities in societal context.
Biomedical Ethics I
Students consider ethical & philosophical approaches which form the basis of
ethical judgments in public health policymaking as well as clinical practice. Areas
covered include: introduction to biomedical ethics & history; political philosophy;
allocation of medical resources; and informed consent. These topics are
addressed in lectures and small-group debates.
Biomedical Ethics II
This subject expands upon the topics covered in 'Biomedical Ethics I'. Students
read and interpret important literature in the fields of law & morality, rights theory,
confidentiality, medical futility, and meta-ethics.
Society and Health I
This lecture series provides a broader context of social determinants of health(SDH) including education, poverty, social isolation, living arrangements, social
networks, income inequality, and social capital. Currently available theoreticaland empirical evidence on SDH will be reviewed and its strengths andchallenges will be discussed.
Society and Health II
This course expands the discussions in Society and Health I to more practicaland political contexts. Course activities include case-oriented discussions,students’ group-based presentations and a health impact assessment workshop.
Occupational Health:This class provides updated information of recent trends and global perspectives
Theory and Practicein occupational health. Also students learn basis of practical skills to pursue
occupational health activities at workplace, through case studies and exercises.
Human Resource
Participants will be able to learn human resource development for health (health
Development for Healthprofessional education) based on principles related with education and learning
through plenary and small group discussion.
Primary Health Care
Primary health care and its medical aspect, primary care, will be covered, andparticipants will be able to learn basic health and medical services and social
security systems, such as equity, person-centeredness, collaboration with
community resources, and emphasis on preventive care.
Healthcare and Community Not provided in AY2024
Health in Japan
Health Policy
Using several cases related to healthcare policymaking & management, such as
prevention and health promotion, access to healthcare, health insurance

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reimbursement systems, and health policy-making process, this subject provides
students with a systematic understanding of various stakeholder perspectives,
relevant social systems, funds procurement, and their management.

Subject
Healthcare Informatics

Practice in Healthcare
Informatics
Forensic Medicine &Medical Law

Description
Credits
This subject consists of lectures on healthcare data management, data coding &2classification, information technology basics & standardization, data processing
techniques, healthcare information system & network technology basics andoperation, healthcare information protection & security, and healthcare
information system management etc.
The exercise covers practical healthcare data management & data coding
1
techniques, data processing techniques, and database system design, etc.
through using actual patient registry system.
Participants will learn the topics about forensic medicine in Japan and other2
countries, especially, the death investigation system, child abuse, clinicalforensic medicine and issues in medical malpractice.
Not offered for 2024AY
2

Forensic Medicine &Medical Law Exercise
Public Health Preparedness This subject teaches students the basics of responding to health risk outbreaks
through case studies of typical past cases on: field epidemiological survey
methods to deal with health risks such as a new type of influenza, coronavirus
infection, and bioterrorism; public health surveillance; identification of the causesof disease outbreaks; and planning, implementation & assessment ofcountermeasures.
Health Administration &In this exercise, students learn planning, implementation and evaluation of actual
Public Health Preparedness countermeasures against various diseases, organizational and preparedness
Exercisemanagement in public health practice, and the roles of the public health officers,
by visiting actual health administration environments.
Environmental HealthThis course introduces students to environmental health perspectives on how
environmental factors influence human health at individual and population levels.
Students will understand basic concepts and methods to assess environmental
exposures and health effects. Studies for specific environmental factors (airpollution, water pollution, weather and climate variability) associated with healthwill be covered and discussed in the course.
Public health informatics
Students learn the basics of public health informatics. To that end, the subject
focuses on geographical information system, infection surveillance system anddisease registration system associated information processing techniques.
Seminar in Public healthIn this exercise, students learn about practical public health information
informatics
engineering through case studies on geographical information system using R.
Methods for Environmental This course introduces students to the advanced methodologies to investigate
Health Research
the short-term effects of environmental risk factors on human health. It will
provide basic concepts, study designs and statistical regression models using
time-series data that have been widely used and intensively developed for thelast few decades in the field of environmental epidemiology. Students will beable to interpret time-series data and regression models and acquire skills toapply the methodologies through hands-on practice using R.
Comparative Healthcare
Not offered for 2024AY
Systems in Asia
InternshipStudents attend public health facilities (public health research & testing facilities,
think tanks, NPOs, healthcare facilities etc.) and leverage their subsequent
practical experiences to develop skills in identifying personal initiatives,
conducting analysis, and planning measures/policies.
Special Lecture in Public
The course enables students to better understand the contribution of health
Healthscience to improve public welfare, by addressing related research and practicalactivities, and challenges in the various field of public health practice whichconstitute a crossing point between public policy & real-world activities.
Independent Study
Under the research supervision from chosen faculty members, students acquire
advanced problem-solving capabilities through fieldwork, data collection,
analysis, statistical analysis and paper writing on a particular research theme.

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Tips for Preparing the Application Form

Application Form (front side)- Course of your choice: Tick your choice, either One-Year course or Two-Year course.
Those who wish to take the one year course can change to the two year course (maximum of two
years study), and can also request assessment (i.e., pass/fail) for both courses. If you would like toapply for both courses, tick the column on the right corner. If there is no tick, your application shall NOT
be screened for the Two year course.
- Name: Fill in your name in both フリガナ (in Japanese phonetic writing) and 英字氏名 (inEnglish). Regarding your name in English, write down your name in accord with name in yourpassport.
- Curriculum Vitae: The CV should only contain details of university onwards (if you transferred touniversity from a junior college, etc. write the details of the college on the bottom line of the CV
section). Applicants who have completed studies in a foreign country should fill in the'Educational background in foreign countries' section.
- Employment history: If you cannot write your employment history in the space provided, write'see attachment' and attach an A4 page outlining your entire work history.
This section should only include details of full-time positions.
* Resident physician experience should be listed as '(residency)', while part-time medical
personnel experience should be listed as '(part-time)'.
- License: If applicable, tick(✓) in the box of the license (医師=doctor, 薬剤師=pharmacist, 保健師＝health nurse). If you have other medical license, please tick “□その他” and write it down.
Application Form (back side)- Email: Please make sure that you provide your email address or mobile phone number so that we
can contact you in the event of any problems with your application documents.
- Emergency contact: If this is the same as the 'Current address' section, place a tick ( ) in the box
beside 'Same as current address'.
- Student ID/ Researcher ID: This section should only be filled out by the University of Tokyo
students.

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Email: in.m[at]gs.mail.u-tokyo.ac.jp
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