Iwate Medical University

In 1947 the college was reorganized into Iwate Medical University through Japanese education reform.

[1] The university is in the centre of Morioka City, the capital of Iwate Prefecture.

As its name suggests, Iwate Medical University specializes in health sciences.

The university runs a major teaching hospital which provides primary, secondary and tertiary health care for residents of Morioka city and the whole of Iwate prefecture.

[citation needed] The first foreign doctoral (PhD) student to graduate from IMU was Denis Russa, a Monbukagakusho scholar from Tanzania who graduated in spring 2009.