Goals
The rapid growth in modern science knowledge and life medicine research has made highly advanced medical-therapeutic technology possible. As the emerging clinical medical fields become more and more specialized, the tools used for diagnosis and treatment are also getting more sophisticated with intricate precision. Participation of professionals with advanced healthcare and management background are necessary in utilizing telecare to support various healthcare models, or to meet the high society requirement in environmental safety and public health policies. The goals of the College of Health Sciences are therefore to cultivate healthcare professionals with life-long learning skills to support modern medical care, and meet the demands of ageing society and depopulation.
The College of Health Sciences encompasses six departments of specialization: Department of Medical Technology and Biotechnology, Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, Department of Public Health, Department of Physical Therapy, Department of Occupational Therapy, and Department of Healthcare Administration and Medical Informatics. All Departments provide bachelor and master degree programs, some also offer PhD or on-the-job graduate programs. The College of Health Sciences aims to provide evidence-based, global-minded and diversified education to enhance the quality of health-care professionals.
Mission
1. Cultivating high quality healthcare professionals to meet the strong demands of society in medical care quality.
2. Developing the management and application between medical services and medical information system to strengthen training for professionals and to establish connections across health service disciplines.
3. Strengthening the collaboration in teaching and research among disciplines and internationally to nurture professionals as guards to the environment and occupational health.
Accomplishments
In 2013 there are 65 full-time faculty in the College of Health Sciences, providing 7 programs for bachelor of sciences (including one post-baccalaureate bachelor degree program in Integrated Clinical Interpretation based on Laboratory Data), 8 programs for Master of Sciences (2 among them are on-the-job graduate programs). In addition, the Department of Public Health offers a five-year combined undergraduate and master’s degree program, and Departments of Medical Technology and Biotechnology and Public Health also offer PhD programs.
With the principles of ‘excellence teaching’, ‘superior research’ and ‘innovative services’, the College of Health Sciences combines the speciality of each Department, and improves continuously the quality in various aspects concerning teaching, research and administration. The College of Health Sciences aims to cultivate healthcare professionals, educators and researchers with global visions to meet the local- and world-needs:
1. Developing cutting-age technologies and analysing methods concerning nanotechnology, biomedical materials, molecular diagnostics and medical devices, biotechnology, biomedicine and medical imaging.
2. Interpreting the interaction and coupling between changes in environment and gene to health with special emphasis on multivariate facets of environment, epidemiology, and molecular biology.
3. Uniting informational technology, medical data mining and clinical healthcare resources to create an innovating operation system to support the provision of healthcare and clinical decision-making.
4. Constructing updated clinical-therapeutic strategies and training standards to promote high quality of life in managing the consequences of ageing, disability, modern civilized illness and metabolic syndromes.
Investing internationally with organisations such as Harvard University and Universities of Minnesota and Old Dominion (PhD in Public Health), Virginia Commonwealth University (MSc in Medical Management), University of Indianapolis (MSc in Occupational Therapy) and Hokkaido University (Department of Physical Therapy) to broaden the views of the College. The BSc course of Occupational Therapy has also been certified by the World Confederation of Occupational Therapy.
