We will work to support female researchers throughout the university, not to mention the Itabashi Campus where this center will be located. To that end, we aim to enable female doctors and researchers to choose from a variety of career paths with support from a broad perspective, such as evaluating and analyzing an environment in which all employees can work comfortably. We will develop human resources for female doctors and female researchers throughout the university so that we can maximize the potential of women and carry out high-quality research activities throughout their lives while balancing them with the social role of women.
Message from the Head of Center
Head of Center OKINAGA Hiroko Professor
The Female Doctor and Researcher Support Center was opened at Teikyo University on April 1, 2013. At our university, we will develop human resources for researchers, regardless of gender, for all faculties, so that we can maximize the potential of women and carry out high-quality research activities throughout their lives while balancing them with the social role of women. I will go.
At this center, we will work with the gender equality committee members of each faculty with the aim of creating a comfortable working environment for everyone working at our university, regardless of gender, and making research and education opportunities attractive.
Head of Center OKINAGA Hiroko Professor
Department of Medicine School of Medicine Doctor (medicine), doctor. After working at the Internal Medicine of Kidney and Endocrinology, The University of Tokyo School of Medicine, he was the Vice President of Teikyo University, a Professor of the Faculty of School of Medicine, and a managing director. He belongs to the Japanese Society of Internal Medicine, the Japan Endocrine Society, the Japan Diabetes Foundation, and the Japanese Society of Stroke.
Background of establishment
For female doctors and researchers, it is required to enhance the system and environment so that the place of education and research becomes more attractive. In addition, there are increasing calls for female doctors and researchers to play an active role in the medical field as a countermeasure against the chronic shortage of local doctors and the collapse of medical care that Japan is facing.
Established for the purpose of supporting female doctors and researchers
Women's social advancement in Japan is extremely late in OECD countries, and it is an urgent issue in an aging society and a modern society with a declining birth rate. In the medical field, a new doctor clinical system was introduced in 2004, and due to the decrease in university enrollment due to matching, the shortage of doctors in rural areas, and the collapse of medical care, it is hoped that female doctors will play an active role in the medical field.
Against this background, the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology or the Japan Science and Technology Agency has taken the lead in promoting support for female researchers and gender equality activities, and activities are already being actively carried out mainly by national universities. Such activities are also necessary at private universities, and Teikyo University established the Female Doctor and Researcher Support Center on April 1, 2013.
In addition to enabling women to balance work and family, this activity is expected to greatly contribute to the development of Japanese medicine in the future by discovering the potential of young scientific researchers. In particular, Teikyo University Itabashi Campus, as a medical campus, plays an important role in fostering medical human resources in the era of the declining birthrate and aging population that Japan is facing, and each course and Teikyo Academic Research Center (TARC), Graduate School of Public Health In cooperation with (professional graduate school) and others, we are making all-out efforts to nurture researchers.
