Goals
1. Professionalism
Produce medical professionals with sufficient professional knowledge and skills, who are capable of lifelong learning and doing innovative researches.
2. Local Concerns
Sound holistic education will produce highly trained medical professionals who are compassionate, widely knowledgeable, highly skilled, adept at communication, and mindful of medical ethics.
3. Community Service
We not only aim to improve the quality of health care and participate in the planning and implementation of national health care policies, and enhance the quality of our medical service and biomedical research, but also apply new biomedical knowledge to clinical practice so as to raise the general standard of public health by encouraging the citizens to participate in sports.
4. Global View
We encourage exchange and cooperation with domestic and foreign medical centers as a means of enhancing our international reputation and improving the quality of our education, research, medicine, and service.
Missions
- In accordance with the national development goals of science, there will be training for biomedical researchers, enhancement of short and long-term exchange programs between world-renowned academic institutions, which include medical genetics, bioinformatics, translational medicine, pharmacogenomics and other relevant integrative trainings.
- Interdisciplinary and interscholastic research resources and skills will be integrated into the requirements for applying the integrative projects; highly-capable researchers shall be nurtured, and participate the research projects for international cooperation and development of the National Science Council.
- There will be the establishment of a research platform for basic and clinical sciences, applied structure and mechanism for translational medicine, enhanced development for research technology, and development of related technology transfer and opportunities for academic-industry liaison.
- Education in the College of Medicine and the university hospital, and the establishment and cooperation of a research talent pool will be promoted so as to best fulfill the purpose of utilizing talents and enhancing effectiveness in all aspects.
- Plans and assessment for long-term development of medical education are to be drafted.
- Innovating teaching material and quality enhancement will be promoted.
- Medical education research will be promoted so as to achieve medical education reform.
- Curriculum reform has entered the second phase. The curriculum shall be deepened from horizontal integration to vertical integration and intercollegiate cooperation. In order to bridge with the world’s top medicine education, the number of foreign students will be increased, international exchange among medical students and medical schools will be enhanced, and the humanistic competency, social care and international perspective of all students and faculty shall be further entrenched.
- Health care professionals with a global competitive edge will be nurtured, international academic visibility and influence increased, humanistic competency of students enhanced so as to achieve the goal of holistic education, realize social care, continue caring for minority groups, and participate in international humanistic medical and health care.
Accomplishments
- In teaching: integration of course, development of innovative teaching, cultivation of self-learning, promotion of medical humanity education.
- In research: construction of translational medicine platform, application of research outcome to clinical practice, execution of national integrative research project, establishment of National Sun Yat-sen University-Kaohsiung Medical University Joint Research Center, improvement on published SCI research papers in clinical medicine and basic sciences.
- In service and learning: promotion of service learning through team work between faculty and students, practice of international volunteer service program, e.g. India, Swaziland, Republic of Malawi, Solomon Islands mobile medical service team etc.
- In internationalization: promotion of international academic exchange, establishment of international student exchange program, having courses taught by international scholars, and development of medical sciences with Waseda University.
- In university-industry cooperation: fruitful university-industry cooperation by faculty, establishment of university-industry cooperation centers, and promotion of the sharing of research outcome with industry
