JPNOverview
One-year advanced course to develop leaders in public health and health/welfare services; completion satisfies the statutory requirements to become director of a public health centre (保健所長) under the Community Health Act Enforcement Order.
The programme
- Training type
- Specialist training programme
- Duration
- 1 year (April 2026 – March 2027 for the FY2026 course); split basic/applied option available
- Start
- 7 April 2026 (FY2026 course)
- Positions
- 15 across Specialist Course I (including split basic/applied tracks)
- Accreditation
- Corresponds to the training course prescribed in Article 4 of the Community Health Act Enforcement Order
- Department
- Not stated on official page
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Medical graduates holding a Japanese medical licence who have completed clinical training (or equivalent as recognised by the Director); targets local-government physicians expected to become public health centre directors and those seeking to become public health centre physicians
- International applicants
- Not stated on official page
- Visa support
- Not stated on official page
- Licence requirement
- Japanese medical licence with completed clinical training
How to apply
- Deadline
- FY2026: round 1 1 Dec 2025 – 5 Jan 2026; round 2 15–30 Jan 2026 (non-government-dispatched applicants round 1 only)
- Application method
- Submit dispatching-agency letter or recommendation, application form, CV, statement of purpose and licence copy; selection by document review, written examination and interview
Funding
- Funding
- No tuition fee