Oita was once the center of Japan’s inter-cultural exchange. We hope to continue and build on this tradition of initiative. Oita University will foster people rich in creativity, social abilities, and humanity through education and research in the humanities, the social sciences, and the natural sciences. 　Oita University Hospital has played a leading role in the local society for a long time. At the same time, we have taken on an increasingly important role to nurture future medical manpower. Since environment surrounding the medical care has been changing so rapidly, we require to responding to highly developed, specialized, computerized medical consultation. Furthermore, we have to meet diversifying individual patient needs and intend to secure a stable source of medical profession who will be bearers of hollowing local medical service. Moreover, we improve the quality of education in a medical school and work to foster human resources contributing our community medicine.