General Medicine is a new field that emerged in the 1900s and 2000s in Japan as a reflection of medical care that was overly specialized/sectionalized and disconnected from the patients’ needs.
We, the members of the Department of General Medicine and Emergency Care, will contribute to patients and society as follows:

1. “Diagnosticians” who formulate hypotheses based on the patient's complaints and make diagnoses beyond the framework of organs.
2. “Managers” of complicated patients who has many diseases and/or social difficulties.
3. “Coordinators” who connect various specialists for the benefit of patients.

We educate medical students and young doctors as “Evangelists of liberal arts in medicine”.

As “Academic generalists”, we are performing following research:

1. Non-invasive diagnosis of various disorders using breath gas tests.
2. Epidemiological research on common diseases originated from ubiquitous clinical questions.