Tokyo Medical and Dental University

or **TMDU** in short, is a Japanese national university in Tokyo.

## Structure

TMDU has three campuses. One is the _Kounodai_ (国府台) campus. The closest station to the campus is Ichikawa Station. Freshmen learn liberal arts and sciences there. By being on the outskirts of Tokyo, Kounodai campus is in a rich natural environment. The others are  _Yushima_ (湯島) and _Surugadai_ （駿河台） campus. The closest station to the campuses is Ochanomizu Station. Upperclassmen learn their speciality there.

TMDU has faculty of medicine and faculty of dentistry. There are also two graduate schools, medical and dental sciences and health care sciences; four undergraduate faculties - medicine, dentistry, health care sciences and oral health care sciences; two university hospitals; an undergraduate college of liberal arts and sciences; and two research institutes, the institute of biomaterials and bioengineering and the medical research institute.

## Outline

The university was founded under the name of "Tokyo National School of Dentistry" as the first dental education institution in 1928. Then in 1951, it was reestablished with the faculty of medicine as Tokyo Medical and Dental University.

In world university ranking in 2011-2012 of Times Higher Education, TMDU is the 276~300th place, the 35th place in Asia, the 10th place in Japan.

## Goals

TMDU's education philosophy is:
- To give students a broad education and a rich sensibility
- To teach creative people who can diagnose and solve problems by themselves
- To teach medical professionals with a rich international quality

## Notable alumni

- Muscle Kitamura
- Koichiro Fujita
- Tomomi Himeno
- Minoru Kamata

## Getting into TMDU

To enter TMDU, students should pass 2 types of exams: the common test for university admissions and the university's own exam.

### Yushima campus

- 2-minute walk from Marunouchi Line, Ochanomizu Station
- 3-minute walk from JR Chūō-Sōbu Line, Ochanomizu Station
- 4-minute walk from Chiyoda Line, Shin-Ochanomizu Station

### Kounodai campus

- 10-minute walk from Keisei line, Konodai Station
- 20 mitutes by bus from JR Chuo / Sobu Line, Ichikawa Station

## Features

- Sparkling lights from the TMDU laboratories until midnight all year round is one of the features of Ochanomizu.
> On Christmas Day, there are sparkling lights in the shape of a Christmas tree on M&D Tower.
- Akio Suzuki (the previous president of TMDU) was known as a respected doctor of cardiac surgery. In Osamu Tezuka's Black Jack (a Japanese manga), he was introduced as "Prof. 'S' of University 'J'". Prof. 'S' refers to Akio Suzuki and University 'J' refers to Juntendo University in Tokyo.

## Yushima campus buildings

- M&D Tower
　…on your left side when looking from Ochanomizu Station.
- Medical Building
　…in the middle of M&D Tower and Dental Building.
- Dental Building
　…on your right side when looking from Ochanomizu Station.

## Other websites

- TMDU website 

## Infobox (university)

- **name**: Tokyo Medical and Dental University
- **native name**: <span lang="ja">東京医科歯科大学</span>
- **image**:

- **motto**: Cultivating Professionals with Knowledge and Humanity
<span lang="ja">知と癒しの匠を創造する</span>
- **established**: 1928
- **type**: National university
Medical school
- **president**: Takashi Ohyama
<span lang="ja">大山喬史 </span>
- **city**: Bunkyō, Tokyo, Bunkyō
- **state**: Tokyo
- **country**: Japan
- **faculty**: 677
- **staff**: 1,205
- **undergrad**: 1,380
- **postgrad**: 1,409
- **other**: 255
- **campus**: Urban area, Urban
- **colors**: Bloom Gold
Mission Blue
- **mascot**: None
- **website**: [http://www.tmd.ac.jp/ tmd.ac.jp]