医学部(いがくぶ)

いがくぶ
noun
medical school; faculty of medicine
1. medical school; faculty of medicine
The undergraduate medical faculty at a Japanese university, where students train to become doctors. Notoriously competitive to enter and requires six years of study.
医学部(いがくぶ)に合格(ごうかく)した。
I passed the entrance exam for medical school.
彼女(かのじょ)は東京大学(とうきょうだいがく)の医学部(いがくぶ)に在籍(ざいせき)している。
She is enrolled in the medical school at the University of Tokyo.
医学部(いがくぶ)は他(た)の学部(がくぶ)と違(ちが)い、六年間(ろくねんかん)の課程(かてい)となっている。
Unlike other faculties, medical school is a six-year program.

医学(いがく) (medicine, medical science) + 部(ぶ) (faculty, department). In Japan, medicine is studied at the undergraduate level as a faculty of a university, not in a separate graduate school as in the US.

COMMON COLLOCATIONS:

  • 医学部(いがくぶ)に入(はい)る: to enter medical school
  • 医学部(いがくぶ)受験(じゅけん): medical school entrance exam
  • 医学部(いがくぶ)生(せい): medical student (= 医学生(いがくせい))
  • 国立(こくりつ)医学部(いがくぶ): national-university medical school

CULTURAL CONTEXT:
Getting into 医学部(いがくぶ) is one of the most competitive academic challenges in Japan, with very high entrance-exam hurdles. Becoming a doctor (医師(いし)) requires completing the six-year program and passing the national licensing exam.

RELATED FACULTIES:

  • 歯学部(しがくぶ): faculty of dentistry
  • 薬学部(やくがくぶ): faculty of pharmacy
  • 看護学部(かんごがくぶ): faculty of nursing
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