Kaohsiung Medical University is geared towards training outstanding health professionals and places equal emphasis on sciences and liberal arts. The goal of our university is to develop a sense of medical ethics, artistic achievement, social concern, global perspectives, and a lifelong thirst for knowledge in our student. Our objective is the education of the whole person.
We are actively enhancing our liberal arts and medical humanities programs in order to achieve these goals. Our general education focuses on developing students’ core competences, which lay a solid foundation for “education of the whole person”. In addition, the university starts to enhance the dialogue among medical professions, technology and the humanities. The College of Arts and Social Sciences was established in August 2012 in the hope of educating health professionals in psychology, social works, and providing more liberal arts and social education to the students.
Apart from formal liberal arts courses, we also vigorously promote hidden curriculum and extension courses in order to boost learning. We create a campus permeated with liberal arts through holding various activities including lectures on the humanities, concerts, film festivals, art exhibits, on-campus public art, student art competitions, and the like. Many well-known international artists and groups have visited our school, includes violinist Cho-Liang Lin, the Vienna Boys Choir, the Cloud Gate Dance Group, and some famous film directors, to name a few. We want to stimulate students’ critical thinking by exposing students to a wide range of perspectives, soften reason with feeling, stimulate perceptiveness, and create campus-wide affinities with the arts, humanities, and culture.
We are continuing to striving towards an attractive, appealing campus. A coffee shop, a hanging garden, the Sports Dome, Schweitzer Boulevard, and the glass-tower library all serve to enrich the students’ academic life. These buildings and facilities have become the school’s major landmarks. Alumnus Dr. Chao Su-Fang donated several bronze sculptures to the university. One can engage in tranquil thought at any corner of the campus.
For half a century, the soothing south wind and swaying coconut palms and maple trees have accompanied the vigorous pursuit of study at Kaohsiung Medical University. We believe that we must teach students to be independent and competent individuals who can dedicate themselves to helping other people and contribute to the future society. We hope to cultivate health professionals who value ethics, are concerned about the society, heed their social responsibilities, possess an international outlook, are steeped in humanities, and are prepared to keep learning throughout their lives.
