Acceptance of Yu’s educational course by the government with advanced reflection of social demand

Selection of the first freshmen for 2022 2nd Semester … acquisition of master’s degree in health through 100% online classes

Configuration of fused subjects with medical IT technology and health medicine service, etc. - Cultivation of professional healthcare manpower

[March 14, 2022]

YU (President CHOI Oe-chool) will open a department in the graduate school to get a master’s degree through 100% online classes from 2nd semester in 2022.

Department of Smart Healthcare of YU Environmental Health Graduate School was selected for online master’s course by the Ministry of Education.It is an online graduate school course installed by YU to cultivate professional healthcare manpower to meet developed health and medical technology and entry into a super aged society. There is the evaluation that a systematic educational course was configured to meet social changes including demand for new industries and to be linked with specialization strategies and teaching-learning strategies of colleges.

  The master’s course of Department of Smart Healthcare of YU Environmental Health Graduate School consists of five semesters (24 credits) and entrance quota is 20 persons (planned).The first freshmen will be selected for the 2nd semester and graduates will get a master’s degree in health. Especially, differentiation from traditional health areas collects attention. Differentially from the theories and practice training of traditional health areas, the course will be focused in learning of new healthcare areas in which medical IT technology and healthcare service are fused with reflection of social changes and in actual application of such areas. For this, professors of various academic areas such as physiology, electric engineering, family medicine, preventive medicine, and pharmacology, etc. will take charge of classes. Opened subjects include ▲ Smart Healthcare, ▲ 4th Industrial revolution and healthcare, ▲ Critical access to health therapy, ▲ Tailored medicine, ▲ Health in life, and ▲ Drugs in life, etc.

  Education demanders are expected to be fairly wide. It is expected that not only hospital/clinic personnel and general administrative staff including healthcare professionals such as nurses and physical therapists, etc. but also general citizens who intend to improve theoretical knowledge on and practical capabilities for new health improvement method will be interested in the course.

  President CHOI Oe-chool of YU said, “It is the result that Yu’s innovative educational course in which social demands are reflected in advance matched rapidly changing social environment and governmental policy changes. We will continuously innovate educational courses to lead social changes not only in specific academic areas of graduate school courses but also in all undergraduate and graduate academic areas.

  Meanwhile, online degree courses of general colleges are operated by general colleges rather than remote colleges (cyber colleges) through 100% online classes after approval by the Ministry of Education.Six majors were selected for six colleges including YU, Korea University, and Kookmin University this time and YU is the only one from Yeonghonam or Gangwon territory.