Saitama Medical University（埼玉医科大学）
Evaluation summary
This university has demonstrated satisfactory compliance with the standards of the Japan
Institution for Higher Education Evaluation.
Standards

Evaluation result

Standard 1. Mission and Objectives, etc.

SatisfiedStandard 2. Students

SatisfiedStandard 3. Educational Curriculum

SatisfiedStandard 4. Faculty and Staff

SatisfiedStandard 5. Management, Administration and Finance

SatisfiedStandard 6. Internal Quality Assurance

Satisfied

Good practices○The Saitama Medical University Policy Formulation Committee that works on the formulation,
inspection and evaluation of the three policies (diploma, curriculum and admission policies) andassessment policy seeks the opinions of external figures and student representatives as committee
members. This initiative is worthy of evaluation.
○Interviews are conducted in the entire selection of entrants, and the university makes an effort tosecure entrants in line with the admission policy. This initiative is worthy of evaluation.
○The Medical Professional Educators’ Workshop held each year since 2009 by the Faculty of
Medical Health and Care is a serious initiative sustained by collaboration between faculty and staff
in order to improve educational capabilities in the faculty, and is worthy of high evaluation.
○The Extra-curricular Program provides opportunities for extra-curricular learning on an array ofthemes and enriches the university’s career guidance and support of learning and class instruction.
This initiative is worthy of evaluation.
○The majority of the full-time staff of the library are accredited JMLA Health Sciences Information
Professionals, and the university strives to improve professionalism as a policy. This initiative isworthy of high evaluation.
○ The Faculty of Medicine Curriculum Evaluation Committee’s system in which studentrepresentatives serve as members and participate in deliberations is an excellent initiative forascertaining students’ opinions and requests, and worthy of high evaluation.

○The university annually holds the Meeting to Create a Japanese Mayo Clinic, a large SD training
workshop involving administrative staff in addition to medical care-related faculty and staff, andadvocates patient centricity in not only medical care but also research and education. This initiative
involving the entire university is worthy of high evaluation.
○The university strives to distribute and publicize the Conduct Guide, which compiles the basic
principles of the university, not only to faculty and staff but also to students, parents and guardians.
This initiative is worthy of evaluation.
○The Board of Directors and its members conduct self-evaluations, and this ties in with the further
strengthening of the functions and governance of the Board of Directors. This initiative is worthyof high evaluation.
○ The Directors’ Handbook of Saitama Medical University stating directors’ obligations andresponsibilities has been created, and is given to a new director to understand it upon assumptionsof office. This initiative is worthy of evaluation.
○Due to leadership of the Chair and other members of the Board of Directors and the efforts offaculty and staff, the university’s financial situation is sound. This is worthy of evaluation.
○The university as a whole, faculties and departments have created individual systems for theimplementation of independent and autonomous self-evaluation. This initiative is worthy ofevaluation.