title: [The first graduates].
abstract: The Hirosaki University School of Health Sciences, started in April, 2001 graduated its first student in March, 2005 and we introduced a health studies specialty master's course at the same time. We report medical technologist training in a principal school and the situation for graduate school master's courses. The course of study includes physics, chemistry, biology and statistics with a compulsory subject by basic seminar that is an introduction subject, a basic education subject, serving as a supplementary lesson and considering the professional training to be connected. We mainly receive practical training by attending the university hospital clinical central laboratory, pathology, and blood transfusion area for three years and can continue for one year to carry out graduation study. As for the course situation, a person of entrance into a school of higher grade to a graduate school compared 11 students out of 41, company relation 4 with the school of allied medical sciences other than finding employment in a hospital and clinical laboratory and became various. 19 students out of 30 are members of society, and we consider this, and the new student situation to Hirosaki University graduate school master's course does a class on after half past 5 and Saturday.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Technology Hirosaki University School of Health Sciences, Hirosaki 036-8564.
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: Kazuyuki
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kida
mesh_terms: D003479:Curriculum / Q000639:trends; D004500:Education, Graduate; D004517:Education, Professional; D004651:Employment; D007564:Japan; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000193:education*; D014495:Universities