Educational Goal
In order to nurture highly competent personnel with teaching skills who can contribute to development of dental care, which is the goal of the doctoral (latter) program in the Course of Oral Sciences, the Graduate School of Health Sciences, the following educational goals have been defined. To achieve these goals, the educational policy and the curriculum have been established.
- We develop attendees' abilities to teach others and supervise researches on oral health science and oral engineering.
- We develop the ability to plan and implement creative research.
- We develop the ability as managers in education and research of dental hygienists and dental technicians.
- We develop a broad perspective as an educator and researcher on oral health science and oral engineering.
Curriculum
Based on the curriculum policy, the curriculum is classified into the following three groups of courses for systematic education.
(1) Basic courses
These courses must be taken by all students, to nurture abilities to independently conduct research, as well as abilities as research supervisors and managers.
(2) Specialized courses
These courses are practical trainings to develop teaching and research skills by practicing research guidance.
(3) Specialized research
These courses offer practical trainings designed to plan and implement a creative research, which is more advanced and specialized than those in the Course of Oral Sciences, the Graduate School of Health Sciences (Master's program)
[ Curriculum Table ]
Area | Subjects Name | Semester | Credit (all required) |
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Common courses | Development of health science | The first semester of the first year | 1 |
Occupational hygiene in health science | The first semester of the first year | 1 | |
Human resource management for health sciences | The first semester of the first year | 1 | |
Organizational management for health sciences | The first semester of the first year | 1 | |
Special course of oral science research | The first semester of the first year | 1 | |
Oral science research guidance | The first semester of the first year | 1 | |
Specialized courses | Practical training for supervising oral science research | The second semester of the first year to the second semester of the third year | 1 |
Specialized research courses | Advanced specialized research in oral sciences | The second semester of the first year to the second semester of the third year | 8 |
Outline of Subjects
Area | Subjects | Outline |
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Common courses | Common courses Development of health science | This course is designed to cultivate research and development capabilities and an ability to promote industry-academia collaboration. In order to conduct excellent research in oral sciences, it is necessary to know the situations of research institutions that have achieved many developments, gain a broad perspective and creative ideas, and be able to cooperate with other institutions for research. In this course, students will acquire diversified research and development capabilities through learning in companies related to oral sciences and discussion with other students. |
Occupational hygiene in health science | Medical institutions routinely use electromagnetic waves, radiation, various drugs and medical devices that may affect the human body. Both healthcare professionals and patients are always at risk of infection. In addition, issues such as long working hours and shortage of human resources are prevalent in the entire healthcare industry. Since healthcare professionals are required to have a high risk management capability in addition to the knowledge about these things that may lead to occupational accidents, this course aims at learning basic occupational hygiene systems and laws, etc., and covers the 13th Industrial Injury Prevention Plan, which stipulates the government's priority actions to reduce occupational accidents, so we can deepen understanding of various problems that must be considered in terms of occupational hygiene. |
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Human resource management for health sciences | In organizations, many people and many departments work toward common goals. In medical institutions, in particular, healthcare professionals with various qualifications cooperate to face each patient. In doing so, it is desirable to fully demonstrate not only expertise of each healthcare professional but also capabilities of the team to realize the organizational philosophy and achieve their goals. This is primarily facilitated by effective human resource management, such as how to secure, develop, and utilize human resources. In this course, attendees will learn knowledge and technologies necessary for human resource management and deepen their understanding about career development. |
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Organizational management for health sciences | In organizations, many people and many departments work toward common goals. In medical institutions, in particular, healthcare professionals with various qualifications cooperate to face each patient. In doing so, it is desirable to fully demonstrate not only expertise of each healthcare professional but also capabilities of the team to realize the organizational philosophy and achieve their goals. To learn the foundations for creating a strong organization and to effectively move the organization, attendees will learn the knowledge and theories necessary for operating the organization including medical institutions, such as organization structures and functions, leadership theory, decision-making, and risk management. |
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Special course of oral science research | This course is designed to understand research contents in oral science and to cultivate a broad perspective as a researcher beyond issues of attendees' interest. They will understand the current state of research in the seven research areas: Basic health science, Health science education, Health science policy, Oral function recovery, Advanced oral health science, Oral materials, and Advanced oral engineering. They will consider how oral science research should be conducted to leverage results in their own research. |
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Oral science research guidance | This course is designed to acquire knowledge on research guidance and to develop skills to play a leading role in oral science research. Attendees will learn teaching guidelines for students with little research experience to select a research theme and plan a research, as well as how to support and advise them. Faculty members who supervised researches in dental medicine and oral science will provide knowledge based on their actual experience, so attendees can learn points to consider in teaching and psychological aspects of students. |
Specialized courses | Practical training for supervising oral science research | This course is designed to cultivate practical research guidance skills by cooperating with and giving advice to postgraduate students in the master's program related to the selected research area. Attendees are requested to advise postgraduate students in the master's program under guidance of a chief and secondary advisors, assist and guide research while effectively communicating with the students, advise on presentation at academic conferences and preparation of research papers in cooperation with the chief and secondary advisors, and acquire practical skills as a research supervisor. |
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Specialized research courses | Advanced specialized research in oral sciences | This is a course for finding a research theme based on creative ideas, from research area selected by attendees, conducting research, and preparing a doctoral dissertation. The research will be conducted after sufficient consultation with the research supervisor and necessary modifications. This is a course designed to collect and analyze data, discuss and then present results at academic conferences, and summarize as a doctoral dissertation. In conducting research, the course of research shall be reported to the chief and assistant advisors for advice and guidance as necessary. As research facilities/equipment, Kuzuha Campus, Translational Research Institute for Medical Innovation(TRIMI), and affiliated hospitals can be also used as needed. Off-campus facilities can be also used by taking the prescribed procedures. |
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Research Fields
Research will be conducted by selecting one of the following three areas:
Research Fields | Outline |
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Oral medicine area | This area is comprised of researches in "the basic health science area" to learn and explore epidemiology in oral health and basic dental medicine in the Graduate School of Health Sciences (Master's program), "the health science education area" to learn and explore undergraduate student education related to dental care, and "the health science policy area" to learn medical care with a particular focus on dental care, health science and welfare, and discuss about the dental health care system. Attendees will be engaged in multifaceted research both in oral health science among dental hygienists or oral engineering among dental technicians. |
Oral health science area | This area is comprised of researches in "the Oral function recovery area" to learn oral function decline and responses and discuss oral function recovery including multidisciplinary collaboration, and "the Advanced oral health science area" to study new dental care and oral function management and discuss about oral health management by dental hygienists. |
Oral engineering area | This area is comprised of researches in "the oral material area" to study new dental materials and discuss methods of processing and applying dental materials, and "the advanced oral engineering area" to study new biomaterials and technologies in dental engineering and discuss how to process oral devices through dental engineering. |
Research Fields, Faculty Members in Charge, and Research Outline
Research Fields | Positions | Name*1 E-mail*2 |
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Oral health science area | Professor | Masataka Itoda itoda |
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Professor | Kazutoshi Kakimoto kakimoto |
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Professor | Masaharu Motone motone |
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Professor | Akiko Shimada shimada-a |
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Assistant Professor | Kumiko Kaji kaji-ku |
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Oral medicine area | Professor | Koichiro Jin jin-k |
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Professor | Michiko Nakatsuka naka-m |
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Assistant Professor | Takeshi Yamanaka yamanaka |
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Assistant Professor | Takahiro Shuto shuto |
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Assistant Professor | Ayuko Maesoma ayuko |
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Oral engineering area | Professor | Tetsuji Kusumoto kusumoto |
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Professor | Masanori Hashimoto hashimoto |
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Assistant Professor | Ryo Nishikiori nishikiori |
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Assistant Professor | Shizuo Higuchi higuchi-s |
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Assistant Professor | Akiko Miyake miyake-a |
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- *1 The faculty members with double underline underneath their names do not plan to accept new students in FY 2024.
*2 Please add the domain "@cc.osaka-dent.ac.jp" to compose an e-mail address.
Standards for the Review of Thesis
Doctoral Thesis (oral science)
The thesis has been published or will be published in a peer-reviewed journal with the applicant of degree as the first author.
Review System
The applicant for degree orally presents the contents of the thesis at the open academic thesis review meeting. The review is conducted in the consultation by one chief examiner and two sub-chief examiners based on the following "review items." If the meeting of graduate school of health sciences is deemed necessary depending on the contents of the research, an external member is included in the sub-chief examiners.
Review Item
- Research task
The research objective is clear and the task contributes to the development of dental care. - Research method
The research method is appropriate for achieving the research objective based on scientific evidence, and ethical consideration is given sufficiently. - Research results
Appropriate analytical methods are selected and obtained data is properly evaluated. - Discussion
After thorough investigation of preceding researches and literatures in Japan and overseas, research results are analyzed from a clear point based on expertise and skills in health science and are consistent with the research objectives. - Conclusion
The conclusions are properly drawn from the research results. Their contents are novel in oral science, useful for future dental care, contributing to human health, and of sufficient value.