The founder of Nagasaki University School of Medicine, Pompe van Meerdervoort started Japan’s first patient-oriented medical practice in Nagasaki and established modern western medicine education in our country.
We have adopted his words
“The physician should realize the nature of his vocation, once he has made his choice, he is accountable to the suffering, not to himself. If it is not his wish, then he should choose another profession.” as our founding philosophy and aim to train doctors and medical professionals equipped with deep medical knowledge, rich creativity and high moral.
To achieve this goal, we provide education with strong emphasis on

1. overall understanding of basic and clinical medical knowledge (to learn medicine)
2. training medical creativity (to learn science)
3. establishing social responsibilities and personalities as doctors (to learn human)
   

Pompe van Meerdervoort honor commemorative relief (in the entrance hall of Nagasaki Medical School)

Dutch Naval doctor Pompe van Meerdervoort (1829-1908) arrived to Nagasaki in September 1857 (August the 4th year of Ansei Period) as a member of the second Naval teaching dispatch party.
He stayed in Nagasaki for 5 years. During his stay, he provided systematic western medical education at Nagasaki Medical School and built basis of modern medicine such as building the first western style hospital in Japan.
The Medical School is the predecessor of Nagasaki University School of Medicine, and Pompe is the founder of our school.
This memorial tablet (length0.5m, width1m) was made by Pompe honor remembrance society, established in August 1989 to commemorate 380 years of amity between Japan and Holland to honor Pompe’s achievement and to carry his name to next generation. The tablet was presented to Nagasaki University School of Medicine and simultaneously to Nagasaki city and Hague city in Holland in November of 1990.
It is displayed in the entrance hall of our faculty building and his following words are also displayed.