Program for Leading Graduate Schools, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Techonology

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to Medical Revolution“Medical Revolution” is a movement to create a new concept from the perspective of health care andwell-being, and to improve compatibility as a whole between individual-life, community and worldwide issues.

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Activation of Cognitive-Behavior
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Harmony of the Whole Body

Long-Term
Recuperation

Health Monitoring en routeor in a Public Place
Prediction and Prevention of Accidents

Diagnostic/Therapeutic Device

Care Device
Care Assist System

Houses that Promote Well-being
Support for Work and Entertainment
In-home Care

Develop a state-of-the-art
medical care system
based on sophisticatedengineering knowledge
and technology

Development of
an Elderly-FriendlyIntegrated HealthCare System

Integrated Medical System

Create a health/ lifestylesupport system and a newmarket in Health Care
Industry by taking
advantage of medical
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Message fromthe Program Coordinator

Measures to keep up with the shift in diseases and disorders due to the changes in
population structure as well as with the changes in social structure are in urgent need

The importance of coordinating medical scienceswith engineering has long been emphasized, andworldwide. Japan as one of the leading super-aging societies in the world must resolvepressing issues such as to extend healthy life expectancies while improving the qualityof life (QOL), to create an elderly-friendly environment and to contain health care costs.

this program is based on the concept of"studying engineering and pharmacology in arich medical research environment". It includes

To overcome these challenges and build a healthy-longevity society, it is necessary tobasic and applied research in engineering anddiseases and disorders through introduction of a healthier lifestyle. Based on

pharmacology as well as in basic medicine,clinical medicine and nursing care so as to train
leaders who are motivated to exploit new areasof research across the medicine / engineering /pharmacology boundary.
In a "super-aging" society such as Japan,
medical / nursing care for the elderly is anabsolute necessity for attaining healthy-longevity.
Another major purpose of this program is toimplement a totally innovative "integrated medical system".
First of all, there is a need to embody specific systems to integrate home care/medicalcare/welfare, to create support systems to fit the lifestyle of individuals, and to prevent
sophisticated progress of medical science and engineering, the importance of 'medicalinnovation' has been proposed. This includes the upgrading of hospital medical careand in-home care, creation of new health care industries and employment, andrevitalization of local communities.
Further, it is necessary to finely coordinate all these factors to implement an "integrated
medical system", which can be customized according to the changes in the lives ofindividuals. There is a need for talented leaders who can invent new concepts, be aleading figure for people from various fields and promote integrated medical system, inorder to create a Japanese model of a healthy-longevity society and for the model tocontribute globally.

support human resources development, training
individuals so that they can actively transmit
various ideas to support the aging society; ideas
not just for medical care at hospitals, but also
to support family doctors
ng-termand to manage long-term

Health Care in Super-Aging Societies
Healthy-longevity and improving QOL
Social participation of elderly people● Containment of health care costs●Challenges●Integration of home care, medical care and welfare
Support system to fit the lifestyle of individuals● Prevention of diseases and disorders throughintroduction of a healthier lifestyle●●Needsities.
recuperation facilities.
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I earnestly hope thateople
talented young people●will join this field..

Expectations

Hidenao Fukuyama,ma,or,Professor,Graduate School of Medicine
ineJapanese Model

Mutual aid among three generations
Health support open to the community● Maintain health by staying at work●
●We will train graduate students in the field of medico-engineering who truly
understand medical science and health care, and foster leaders who can apply
medical knowledge to other fields.

Training Leaders for
Integrated Medical System

Graduate
Schools

Leaders to create an integrated medical system
based on social needs and by applying theirknowledge and experience in medical engineering

Graduate School of Medicine
Graduate School of Engineering
Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences

Research and Educational
Unit of Leaders for
Integrated Medical System

Graduate School of Economics

ResearchResearch Institute for
institutes, etc. Mathematical Sciences

Center for the Promotionof Interdisciplinary
Education and Research

Kyoto University Hospital

Other units

Internship / Dispatch lecturers / TrainingCooperative Companies

Public Organizations

Medical device industry, automobile industry, housing industry, ITC industry, etc.

Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Keihanna Science City, etc.

Admission
to graduate
school

1SellectionofLIMS
stuudents

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Basic Class●

Human Anatomy●

Physiology

Graduate
School ofMedicine

Mathematical
Sciences
Graduate
School ofEngineering●

Mechanics andDynamics●

Material Chemistry●

Biopharmaceutics, etc.

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Basic Mathematics●

Introduction to Numerical Simulation, etc.

Thesis Research
HealthEconomics●

Health Economics●

Intellectual Property &Global StandardizationMedical Engineering for Society
Graduate
School of
PharmaceuticalSciences

Interdisciplinary Application●Medical Imaging●

Minimally Invasive Therapeutics●Biomaterials and Artificial Organs●Medical Informatics●

Inspection Equipment Studies and●
Science Research Equipment

Medical andLife Support Systems●

Biological Test and Image Analysis●

Home Medical Care Support●Rehabilitation

Internshipin Foreign Countries
Industrial and public parties

Hands-onExperience

Training Based on Medical Science,
Engineering and Pharmacology

Know the Human Body

●Know the Norm

Public OfficeNursing Homes

InternationalOrganization

Acquire highly specialized knowledge and skills ofmedico-engineering cultivated by Kyoto University and acquire
the ability to perform R & D based on social needs.

The program provides an efficient curriculum so that LIMS students from the Graduate Schools ofScience, Engineering, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nursing, Rehabilitation, Medical Technology, etc
will learn the basics of medicine and knowledge of the living body comparable to graduates frommedical schools.
●Understanding the Needs

Hospital

Human Anatomy: Practice the essence of human anatomy in a similar environment as medical students.
Physiology: Acquire a sense to focus on functional coordination of the diversity of tissues, organs
and the whole body.

Through training at Kyoto University Hospital, related medical institutes, nursing homes, companies,public and international organizations, the students will understand the social needs especially in
medical and health care practice.

Master the social norm related to health care such as healthcare policy, healthcare economics,healthcare ethics, intellectual property and global standardization.

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Medical Science

Students are expected to play leading roles
in divers scenes including but not limited tothe following:■ Can integrate wide knowledge of medical scienceand health care and sophisticated engineering
technology to invent an elderly-friendly support
system that may lead to medical innovation.

Human Health Science■ Can understand the needs specific to the elderly
and propose new ideas to improve autonomouslife and motivation for social participation.

Engineeringe
economics in■ Can deeply understand the healthe proathe aging society and behave
proactively.

Pharmaceutical Sciences■ Can create a health care industry aiming to meetglobal standards.

※2+

chofetcom※2Career paths/Future goals

Certificateof the“LeadingProgram”(additional remark)It is expected that students will create andcultivate professions or special fields notseen before.
models in■ Can create new services and business mod
the industrial world to guide preparatio
preparation of ay by carefully
support system for the elderly
considering every aspect of their lives.
■ In universities and research institutes, can lay thegroundwork on which unconventional wisdom buried
in medicine, science, or engineering may be developed
to be put into use for everyday life.
■ Start a venture business.
■ In governmental and public organizations,contribute to policy making for a vibrant society,and swift social implementation of the fruits from
R&D through industry-academia cooperation.

Category of degree that can be※1 acquired depends on thestudent's graduate school ormajor.

※2Complete in 4 years for a 4-year
doctor course.

■ In the global community, propagate advanced
medical and health care system, and expand thehealthy-longevity society by effectively using thehigh-quality Japanese model.

Training through industry - academia - governmentcooperation based on social needs
Aim to foster a sense to create techniques based on social needs rather than seeking
sophistication of techniques alone, or, if necessary, to search for novel technologies
and flexibly integrate them with existing techniques.

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Participation in extramural workshop

Cultivate the ability to put in perspective, from the early stages, future technologicalmaturation such as during operational experiments or after social implementation,
without being satisfied with the level of technology attained in laboratories.

Foster their abilities in situational assessments and in communication i) to contemplatesocial cost, evidence in health economics and to develop and conduct operationalexperiments, ii) to propose methods of evaluation, regulation or ethical consideration of newtechnologies and systems, ii) to prepare supportive evidence for political decision making.
Field trip to geriatric health services facility

Scenes of Guidance to LIMS Students
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ExpExpectations
for the program

During those training days as a junior scientist,
I believe that I managed to become a qualified researcher ofbasic medical science, or medico-engineering after I entered thefield from outside. But looking back, I also sometimes think thatI could have performed better if I had full training and knowledge ofanatomy and physiology at that time. While such knowledge may have had
little effect on the results of my research, it could at least have helped me tobe more tactical and time-efficient. Collaborations between researchers fromdifferent fields such as engineering, medicine and pharmacology aresometimes hindered by communication difficulties between them. I am
confident that, mentoring the students of graduate school of medical
science / pharmacology the knowledge of engineering, andthe students of graduate school of engineering the basic
knowledge of medical science and pharmacology inthis LIMS program will surely improve their mutualcommunications and accelerate nurturing ofindividuals to lead the future longevity society.
Systtems PracticeMedical and Life Support SystSystems

Research and Educational Unit of Leaders
for Integrated Medical System,
Konoe, Yoshida, Sakyo, Kyoto, 601-8501, JAPAN

info@lims.kyoto-u.ac.jp
www.lims.kyoto-u.ac.jp

Yasuo Mori, Professor,
Graduate School of Engineering