University Timeline
- 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.)