Dean, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine
Yamaguchi UniversityProf. WATARAI Masahisa
The Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Yamaguchi University is tracing its roots back to Yamaguchi Higher Professional School of Veterinary Medicine established in 1944. After moving to the Department of Veterinary Medicine, Faculty of Agriculture, Yamaguchi University, the Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine was established as the eighth faculty of Yamaguchi University in 2012. It is recorded in the documents that there was a great deal of support from the Yamaguchi Prefecture and Ogori Town at the time of its establishment. I would like to express my respect and gratitude to the local people for their high ideals and enthusiasm for veterinary education. Nearly 80 years have passed since it was founded, and the range of activities of veterinarians has expanded with the transformation of society. We are continuously working to improve the quality of education in order to accurately meet the wide range of social needs of veterinarians.
Our faculty is practicing mutually complementary education in collaboration with the Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University. Incorporating the educational content required by the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education (EAEVE) based on the " Veterinary Education Model Core Curriculum ", we received an evaluation of the curriculum by EAEVE and obtained certification as a European standard veterinary education curriculum in 2019. From 2021, MEXT Inter-University Exchange Project “Veterinarian Training Program Responsible for Infectious Disease Control to Solve One Health Problem in Asia and Africa” was started, and we are building an international network of veterinary education. The One Welfare Education and Research Center has been established in our faculty to promote new initiatives related to the well-being of humans and animals.
The global pandemic of COVID-19 has had a number of implications for education and research. Looking ahead to the “with corona” era, we would like to accelerate digital transformation and develop unique human resources who can contribute to society both locally and globally.
April, 1, 2024
Dean of JFVM and JGSVM, WATARAI Masahisa, DVM, PhD.