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1897
Iwate Hospital, a private hospital, is established. Morioka Medical Training School is established.
Iwate Midwifery and Nursing School is jointly established.
1901
Iwate Medical School, a private university, is authorized to be established.
1912
Iwate Medical School is closed. (due to a medical education reform)
1926
Iwate Hospital Clinical Wing is completed. (present-day Building Number 1)
1928
Iwate Medical College Foundation is authorized to be established. (first president: Shunjiro MITA)
1947
Reorganized
1948
Iwate Medical University School of Medicine Medical Course is established.
1951
Iwate Medical University Foundation is reorganized as Iwate Medical University Educational Corporation.
1952
Start of the newly-organized Iwate Medical University
1955
Further Medical Education Course is established.
1960
Graduate School of Medical Science is authorized to be established. (Doctor’s Course)
1965
The School of Dentistry and the School of Liberal Arts are authorized to be established.
1966
Iwate Dental Technicians’ School is established.
(present-day Iwate Medical University Dental Technicians’ School)
1967
The School of Dentistry Hospital is established.
1970
The School of Medicine Outpatient Clinic Wing, Ward, Clinical Lecture Hall are completed.
1972
The Memorial Library is completed.
1980
Advanced Emergency Center is established jointly with Iwate prefecture.
(present-day Iwate Prefectural Advanced Critical Care and Emergency Center)
1983
The Graduate School of Dental Science is authorized to be established. (Doctor’s Course)
1990
Iwate Medical University Cyclotron Center is established.
1993
Iwate Medical University Hanamaki Onsen Hospital is established.
1994
Iwate Medical University Hospital is approved as an advanced treatment hospital.
1997
The 60th Anniversary Memorial Hall is completed, the University Hospital Memorial Heart Center is established.
1998
The 70th anniversary
1999
Selected for the Private University High-Tech Research Center Project
2004
The Graduate School of Medical Science is authorized to be established. (Master’s Course)
2004
Dental Hygienists’ School is established.”
2005
The Dental Center is established at Iwate Medical University Hospital.
(The School of Dentistry Hospital isintegrated.)
2006
The School of Pharmacy is authorized to be established.
2007
The Yahaba campus is completed. 

The School of Pharmacy and the Center for Liberal Arts and Sciences are established.

2009
The Memorial Heart Center is established at Iwate Medical University Hospital.
(The University Hospital Memorial Heart Center is integrated.)