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Social Medicine Course

This course aims to train professionals who undertake the task of improvement of health and safety at the regional and international levels.

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Social Medicine Course

This course aims to train professionals who undertake the task of improvement of health and safety at the regional and international levels. Students start by learning research methods in social sciences including research ethics, basic and applied statistics, medical informatics and EBM (evidence-based medicine). This course emphasizes social medicine and preventive medicine, rather than biology and life science. Students aim at mastering the research approaches and skills that are necessary for research in public health and preventive medicine.

Message from Graduate Student

New drug development

Social Medicine Course
Department of Regulatory Science

YOKOSHIKI Saki

I work at Hokkaido university hospital to assist researchers in drug development. It is very important to consider the development strategies for application with researchers, because it is difficult to evaluate efficacy and safety in clinical trials to develop new drugs for rare diseases. I decided to go on to a doctoral program because I wanted to know more about how a drug is being developed until the new drugs are approved.

Currently, I am researching into how clinical trials have been performed and what has been achieved for approved drugs. I realize the difficulty to obtain approval for new drugs, but there are many things that I can apply in my daily work. I hope that my research will help in the development of new drugs which I was involved with to ensure that they reach patients in the shortest possible time.

(As of April 2020)

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