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History
History of High Grade Education on Nursing
and Health Science in Yamagata Prefecture
| 1954 | Established as Yamagata Prefectural Nursing School, started high grade of nursing education in Yamagata Prefecture |
| 1957 | Restructured as Yamagata Prefectural Nursing and Public Health Nursing School, founded public health nursing course in the School |
| 1973 | Founded Midwife course in the School |
| 1997 | Established as Yamagata School of Health Science (3 years course) including Department of Nursing Department of Physical Therapy Department of Occupational Therapy |
| 2000 | Restructured as Yamagata Prefectural University of Health Sciences including (4 years course) Department of Nursing Department of Physical Therapy Department of Occupational Therapy |
2004 | Establishd the Graduate School of Health Sciences Department of Health Sciences (2 years master's program) |
| 2017 | Established the last part of the doctor course (Ph.D. program (3 years doctor's program ) |
Organizational Structure
The Full Time Faculty Members
| Professors | Associate Professors | Lecturers | Assistant Professors | Total | |
| Department of Nursing | 8 | 8 | 4 | 10 | 30 |
| Department of Physical Therapy | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
| Department of Occupational Therapy | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 12 |
| Total | 16 | 14 | 9 | 14 | 53 |
( 2020.4.1 ) |
Admission Capacity
1st year | 2nd year | 3rd year | 4th year | Total | |
| Graduate School of Ph.D. program | 3 | 3 | 3 | - | 9 |
| Graduate School of Master's program | 12 | 12 | - | - | 24 |
| Department of Nursing | 63 | 63 | 67※ | 67※ | 260 |
| Department of Physical Therapy | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 80 |
| Department of Occupational Therapy | 20 | 20 | 20 | 20 | 80 |
| Total | 118 | 118 | 110 | 107 | 453 |
( ※including transfer students ) |
