To nurture medical care professionals and researchers who have a true sense of compassion and broad academic perspectives, who uphold the dignity of life and have high ethical standards, and who strive to acquire a high level of knowledge and techniques. To educate medical care professionals who contribute to the improvement of health and welfare in the local community. To train medical and nursing students to fulfill a constructive role in the international community through education, research, and health-care activities.

To put its educational philosophy in practice, Asahikawa Medical University sets forth the following objectives

1. To produce health-care professionals with a well-rounded character through the cultivation of cultured minds and morals.
2. To develop students' understanding of the dignity of life and medical ethics, and establish compassion for the disabled and diseased.
3. To have students acquire highly specialized knowledge and balanced medical skills as well as the ability to learn and study throughout their life.
4. To enhance students' ability to communicate openly and effectively for medical collaboration and safety management.
5. To foster a better understanding of the health and welfare in the local community and remote rural areas to meet the needs of residents there.
6. To broaden horizons and boost involvement and commitment for the international community.

1. To contribute, as a medical graduate school, to the comprehensive development of medical science and nursing science through various basic and clinical studies.
2. To advance knowledge through sincere efforts in research, seeking deeply for the truth with a spirit of independence, autonomy, and responsibility.
3. To produce a diverse and balanced educational curriculum that fosters excellent researchers and highly specialized medical individuals with cultured minds, deep compassion and respect for human dignity and rights, and strict medical ethics.
4. The graduate school is open to everyone. Our ethos is to help local communities and cooperate with communities around the world. We will promote medical welfare and foster harmony among societies around the world.