OpenFieldShowa University (Yokohama Campus) is a premier medical sciences university campus and teaching hospital in Aoba-ku, Yokohama, celebrated for multidisciplinary healthcare education across medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, and nursing.
Showa University is internationally recognized for its pioneering integrated first-year residential curriculum and interprofessional medical education (IPE), training doctors, dentists, pharmacists, and nurses collaboratively. The Yokohama Northern Hospital (Showa University Fujigaoka and Northern Hospitals) acts as a tertiary emergency and advanced cancer surgical center.
Highly competitive admissions via national entrance examinations for School of Medicine, School of Dentistry, School of Pharmacy, and School of Nursing and Rehabilitation Sciences. Graduate applicants require professional healthcare licensure, academic transcripts, and departmental research defense.
Six-year professional degree leading to national pharmacist licensure (Yakuzaishi), featuring extensive clinical pharmacology rotations at Showa University Yokohama Northern Hospital.
Four-year professional nursing degree providing advanced simulation training in tertiary emergency trauma, oncology infusion, and neonatal intensive care.
Four-year doctoral research curriculum investigating translational pharmacology, targeted cancer chemotherapy, molecular pathology, and interprofessional clinical teamwork outcomes.
Postgraduate clinical research fellowship within the Clinical Research Institute, managing translational drug development and biomarker discovery trials.
Hospital clinical pharmacy residency at Showa University Northern Hospital, focusing on therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM), anti-microbial stewardship, and intensive care pharmacotherapy.
Clinical practicum for dental graduates in advanced pediatric craniofacial development, interceptive orthodontics, and restorative pediatric dentistry.
Professor of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacokinetics · School of Pharmacy
Prof. Dr. Masahiro Kudo models personalized dosing regimens for immunosuppressive drugs and narrow-therapeutic-index antimicrobials, minimizing adverse reactions in hospital patients.
View research profile ↗Professor of Advanced Critical Care Nursing and Interprofessional Simulation · School of Nursing and Rehabilitation Sciences
Prof. Dr. Noriko Abe directs interprofessional simulation training for multidisciplinary medical teams, evaluating clinical outcomes of coordinated trauma resuscitation.
View research profile ↗Professor of Oral Maxillofacial Surgery and Dental Biomaterials · School of Dentistry
Prof. Dr. Kenichi Sasaguri researches bioactive bone grafting materials and stem cell osseointegration protocols for complex maxillofacial surgical reconstructions.
View research profile ↗University profile compiled from official Showa University Yokohama Campus academic bulletins and institutional directories reviewed on 2026-10-16. OpenField is an independent research guide.