The Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine produces skilled professionals who are ready to contribute to medical science and medical care all over the world.
Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine was established in 1973 as one of the first schools established under the plan of one medical college in each prefecture (including ones in Asahikawa and Ehime). The history of this faculty began when the committee for preparation of Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine was established in Yamagata Prefecture on Dec. 13, 1968 and a document to offer cooperation to establishment of the Faculty of medicine was submitted to the President of Yamagata University (Mr. Tokutaro Hirone) by the Governor of Yamagata Prefecture(Mr. Tokichi Abiko). The liaison conference for establishing Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine (among Yamagata University, Yamagata Prefecture, and Yamagata City) was assembled on May 6, 1972 and on July 1 of the same year, it was decided at the Yamagata University council to appoint Dr. Takashi Nakamura, a recipient of Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star. a professor emeritus at Tohoku University(Director of the Akita Cerebropathy Research Institute) as a professor of Yamagata University(as the planned dean of the Faculty of Medicine); subsequently on July 28, it was decided at the same council to appoint Dr. Kunio Ichiyanagi, a professor of Niigata University, as a professor of Yamagata University (planned director of the Yamagata University hospital) and then selection of professors of the Faculty of Medicine was started. As the law to amend part of the National School Establishment Law(l973 Law 103) was enforced on Sept. 29, 1973. Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine was established. Therefore, it can be said that Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine was opened because Yamagata Prefecture and Yamagata City called for establishment of it in Yamagata University and these three parties agreed on the spirit of bringing up youths to bear Japanese medicine and medical care. Naturally, Yamagata Prefecture and Yamagata City came to rely on Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine about medical care of Yamagata, so it can be said that responsibility occurred on the side of the Yamagata University Faculty of Medicine also.
With the enforcement of the National University Corporation Law(Law No. 108 on Julyl6, 2003), the university was reorganized into Yamagata University, a National University Corporation. on Apr. 1, 2004. Our current professors are conducting medical studies and clinical practices that are above the level of former imperial universities in some fields and acting as opinion leaders in various fields by showing their individual characteristics. so they are now engaged in upbringing of world-class medical persons with the consciousness that is totally different from that in the foundation period.