noun
medical science; medical field; medical department
Refers to medicine as a field or to a medical department/course, especially when distinguishing it from other specialties such as 歯科. For the academic discipline itself, 医学 is often the more general everyday term.
この大学には医科と歯科がある。
This university has both medical and dental departments.
彼は医科に進むことを決めた。
He decided to go into medicine.