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Department of Legal Medicine
Osaka Metropolitan University Graduate School of Medicine
Undergraduate Program
Presently, while the role of universities in the educational field is fundamentally changing, with ‘the ability to organise, respond and transmit’ at the core, the program aims to ‘educate students to become aware of the importance of true learning’.
Specifically, the ability to organise is regarding practical forensic knowledge necessary to independently identify and present problems to support clinicians' problem solving while recognising forensic issues during the diagnosis of case studies.
The ability to respond relates to pathological and differential diagnosis and cutting edge treatments, and the ability to transmit refers to holding evidence-based discussions according to international standards as globalisation in medical education progresses.
Our program aims to provide an educational system in which students learn these abilities from junior to senior years through repetition and development.
In order to further develop the knowledge learned in a large lecture, we present small topic-specific lectures, and offer CPC case studies in clinical settings using dynamic presentations such as presenting actual cases as examples.
Clinical Forensic Education
To nurture clinicians with evidence-based diagnostic abilities in accordance with international standards, they must learn the association of basic techniques and knowledge necessary for diagnosis in a positive correlation between vertical and horizontal axes. Furthermore, without social communication skills, including legal and ethical aspects, a clinician cannot provide holistic treatment.
From the forensic perspective, it is important in initial clinical training to create a supportive environment to nurture the students’ ability to perceive unique legal problems associated with patient conditions and avoid risks posed by examination and medical treatment, and for allowing the clinicians to exert their full abilities.
We believe that creating a system which provides feedback of forensic practice to clinical studies is fundamental to postgraduate education. The role of legal medicine is to provide a place to develop social sense. To improve the clinical training system to recognise the social significance of forensic practice, it is important to learn the spirit of the law with a forensic and sociomedical perspective while acquiring knowledge of various diseases and improving clinical knowledge and clinical skills.
Research Guidance
Departmental research is conducted by small and diverse teams through a building and examining communication process in order to objectively evaluate forensic diagnosis. In addition, we actively engage in joint studies with other facilities from foreign countries, including Germany, China, the U.S., Poland, Egypt, and Sri Lanka, and have achieved a certain level of success through examinations on each research topic.
Our research is directly relevant to the mainstream practice globally and provides significant social contribution. We believe it is important to provide our research findings to clinical studies and society in the future in order to further increase its academic and practical value; thus, we instruct our students to present their results at conferences and publish academic papers.