Greetings
Kyoto University has established the Gender Equality Promotion Center to address gender equality through university-wide efforts to support various reinstatement and childcare programs. In addition, Kyoto University Hospital is one of the first hospitals to open a childcare facility for sick children (currently operated as a nursery room for convalescent children), introduced a career support program for medical practitioners in FY2016 to enable flexible work styles, and has been proactive in its efforts to support the child-rearing generation, including 26-hour childcare service and cay-care pick-up service. Furthermore, a new in-house daycare center is opened in 2024, and the momentum for childcare and career support is further increasing.
Under these circumstances, we would like to express our sincere gratitude to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare for adopting our project in FY2024 Support Project for Medical Professionals of Child-Rearing Generation and giving us the opportunities to implement support programs for medical professionals of child-rearing generation, following last year’s program.
We named our project “KUSNoKI (Kyoto University hospital Supporting Network of Keeping up career and Innovation) Project” after the camphor tree, the symbol of Kyoto University. The camphor tree is said to be characterized by its ability to grow steadily into a large tree over a long time, and we hope that this project will also continue to grow steadily as a presence that is close to each person.
Project Director
Kyoto University
Center for Medical Education & Internationalization
Professor Hitomi Kataoka
Project Overview
Project Symbol
「KUSNoKI」
The KUSNoKI Project has been launched after being selected by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) for the “FY2023 Support Project for Medical Professionals of Child-Rearing Generation”. The project will develop activities to further promote various career support, childcare support, and gender equality that Kyoto University is working on.
The project aims to build support systems accessible to all with four pillars: support for reinstatement, support for career development, support for childcare, and support for promotion and education. In collaboration with related organizations of Kyoto University and the Kyoto Medical Association, etc., we will promote new initiatives and expansion of existing ones.
【KUSNoKI】 Kyoto University hospital Supporting Network of Keeping up career and Innovation
