About the University of Tokyo
Hospitals
The University Hospitals have contributed to the progress of medicine through clinical research and the education of medical students. They have provided people from all over the country with advanced medical care. Until 2000, there were three hospitals in The University of Tokyo. In 2001, the University Branch Hospital was merged with the University (Main) Hospital to innovate the New University Hospital.
University Hospital
The University Hospital has its origins in 1858, when the Kanda Otamagaike Vaccination Center was established, and under a variety of names since then the University Hospital has fulfilled its main mission to provide“ the best medical care to individual patients” as an important center of medicine in Japan.
As a general hospital, the University Hospital provides
care in all fields of medicine in six clinical divisions: Internal,
Surgery, Sensory/Motor Function, Pediatrics/Perinatal/
Gynecology, Neuropsychiatry, and Radiology, with a total of
37 clinical examination rooms, including for Cardiovascular
Medicine, Gastroenterology, Stomach and Esophagus Surgery,
Orthopaedic Surgery and Spinal Surgery, Pediatrics.
Departments supporting these include the Pharmaceutical
Service, Nursing Department, Clinical Laboratory, Surgical
Center, Radiological Center, Emergency Services, Intensive
Care Unit, Department of Planning, Information and Management,
and Administration office. These core clinical departments
and facilities are provided with the latest medical
equipment and offer cutting-edge medical care. In addition,
the University Hospital provides community-based medical care as a disaster control base hospital in Tokyo Metropolis and a
cancer control base community hospital.
The hospital has 1,210 beds (1,150 in the general ward, 60 in the psychiatric ward), 389,830 inpatients and 794,454 outpatients received medical care at the hospital in fiscal year 2010. The hospital building has a total area of 244,000m2, about 19 times the size of Tokyo Dome Stadium, housing the hospital inpatient and outpatient, examination and surgery medical and research facilities. Further, to educate the next generation of superb doctors, the University Hospital actively promotes undergraduate education and post-graduate training and seeks new ways to support the research and development of new medical technologies.
Institute of Medical Science Hospital
The Institute of Medical Science was established in 1894
to fulfill the role of bridging fundamental research and infectious
diseases at a time when research into infectious
diseases was at the forefront of medical science. In 1967
the Institute for Infectious Diseases was reorganized as the
Institute of Medical Sciences and the subsidiary hospital
was given the function of developing new medical treatments.
The hospital has 135 beds, and the main problems
treated are malignant cancers, infectious diseases and immune
system disorders, mostly through genome and cellular
medical care. The Institute of Medical Science Hospital
and the Advanced Clinical Research Center have a very
close relationship. Results gained from fundamental research
are applied to clinical research, and on the basis of
protocols developed at the Advanced Clinical Research
Center, are implemented at the Institute of Medical Science
Hospital (Trans-relational Research, TR). The Medical
Safety Council, the clinical genome department and
other sections that support TR at the Institute of Medical
Science Hospital are located in the hospital, and a Transrelational
Coordinator provides active support for patients
entered into TR programs.
