Diploma Policy
Undergraduate Program
A degree shall be granted to a student who has been enrolled in our school for a designated period of time, completed designated courses, exercises and practical trainings, passed all tests, and earned a designated number of credits, in accordance with the educational goals of Osaka Dental University.
We generate human resources who originally have flexible basic competence that supports rich humanity and professional competence as a dentist and actively lead dental care in the new era.
- Students should have systematic knowledge of basic medicine and dental medicine and an ability to benefit the real world by using this knowledge.
- Students should nurture scientific inquisitive mind to gather and analyze a broad range of information, discover and solve problems independently.
- Students should have general abilities and risk management abilities, with readiness to learn continually.
- Students should cultivate a competence as a world citizen and acquire abilities to play a role in the global setting through overseas training.
- Students should acquire skills to provide proper and reliable dental care.
- Students should actively engage in dental care of the new era, understand patient-centered medical care and dental care desired by people, and have acquired the ability to take an initiative in team medicine.
- Students should have a broad perspective and decision-making ability to meet diverse values.
Curriculum Policy
Undergraduate Program
In order for students to acquire advanced knowledge, skills, and attitudes described in the policy of conferral of degrees, our curricula are organized so that they can systematically learn the necessary contents and skills in each subject. We examine whether students have acquired knowledge, skills, and attitudes based on lectures, practical trainings, exercises, and tests.
Under the spirit of "Philanthropy and Public Interest," we nurture human resources who will play a leading role in dental medicine and dental care with specialized "knowledge/skills" and comprehensive "humanity/teamwork," based on the educational policy to produce dental practitioners who are also well-balanced individuals capable of applying everything they learn at the university.
Curriculum Overview
- Students should acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for dentists through the six year program.
- Students should acquire attitude which is necessary as a dental care professional, through the curriculum from the first year early clinical exposure to the fifth year clinical training.
- Students will strengthen their competence as an international medical professional, by learning English for dentistry and overseas trainings.
- Students should work on challenging research to cultivate researcher's mind.
- Students will be able to learn with motivation, by attaining the ability to think and act independently as a dentist through lectures, practical trainings, and clinical trainings in the core curriculum of the fourth year, and by acquiring comprehensive knowledge in dental medicine in the sixth year program, which should be sufficient to pass the national examination.
- Students should acquire knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for a dentist by participating in clinical clerkship.
- Students should acquire a sense of ethics to care about patients and fulfill social responsibilities.
Education Method
- Lectures and practical trainings according to syllabi.
- Use of teaching materials developed to acquire knowledge and skills.
- Group study for active learning.
- Small group lectures for learning support.
- Experience and clinical trainings to recognize the relationships with the society and patients.
Assessment of Learning Gains
- Test on each course and comprehensive examination described in the syllabus.
- The common achievement test for dentistry to be taken before clinical training.
- Clinical knowledge test and clinical skills test at the end of clinical training.
- Bachelor's examination after completion of clinical training.
Students are evaluated based on each of the above tests to determine advancement and graduation.
Admission Policy
Undergraduate Program
In order to develop human resources in line with educational goals based on our founding spirit of "Philanthropy and Public Interest," we accept individuals who have a strong sense of purpose as healthcare professionals, sufficient basic academic abilities, and communication abilities to think independently, decide, and express themselves.
We welcome people who can follow the tradition built by our predecessors' persistent efforts, lead the new era of dentistry based on our founding spirit, and have adequate abilities and aptitude for defending people's oral health.
- A person who has sufficient basic academic skills to learn dental medicine.
- A person with a mission and spirit to serve and be useful in the society as a healthcare professional.
- A person who thinks with the scientific inquisitive mind and makes their own efforts.
- A person who has communication skills and a cooperative mind.
- A person who can acquire expertise, skills, and attitudes and makes steady efforts to pass the national board examination.
- A person who is enthusiastic in contributing to the development of dental medicine and is willing to be engaged in dental care from a global perspective.
- A person who has extensive and rich humanity and abilities to act, combined with a sense of ethics and an appropriate world view as a dentist.