Graduate School of Health Care Services, Jikei Institute has published the first edition of the Graduate School of Health Care Sciences, Jikei Institute Newsletter. The newsletter was created to help people learn more about Jikei Institute, which is the first graduate school in Japan established to conduct research into health care safety and quality. The 4-page color newsletter is printed on A3-size paper and features “the Inaugural Issue” by Jikei Institute Principal Hiroshi Takeda and “Realizing the Dream of Health Care Assurance and Safety” by Jikei Group of Colleges Chairperson Kunihiko Ukifune.

 

On the front page, Principal Takeda once again expresses his resolve to train “genuine leaders in health care safety management” from the interdisciplinary perspective of team medicine. Chairperson Ukifune shares the story of how the graduate school was established and talks about both how health care assurance and safety are decisively management problems and how the school is working toward realizing the philosophy of the Jikei Group of Colleges through the education of management professionals with an advanced level of expertise in the field.

 

The second page features an article entitled “What is Health Care Safety Administration?” which defines health care safety administration and outlines the underlying system, as well as an article listing the topics for master’s theses submitted by students in 2014. The third page includes a report on the extracurricular activities of students and an article introducing one of our faculty members, Professor Yachiyo Tsuchiya from the Nursing Department, who is the number one hitter for our school.

 

The final page features a day in the life of students doing their best to balance their studies with their work and an article introducing one of our graduates who is putting the health care safety skills and knowledge learned at our graduate school to use. A report on the activities of the Research Ethics Committee and other committees is also included.

 

Administrative staff and faculty members created a newsletter committee and set about compiling content for the publication in the spring of this year. The school plans to publish the newsletter biannually and distribute it to health care institutions, research and educational institutions, current students, and graduates.