Due to rapid advances in informatics technology in the 1980's, interaction among nations has become more intimate and more frequent. The NTUCM has been active in seeking the opportunities of cooperation with the foreign medical schools in the past decades. Since 1988, the NTUCM School of Medicine has established collaborative agreements with the medical schools of Harvard University, University of Rochester (UR), University of Pennsylvania (UP), University of Southern California (USC), Ohio State University (OSU), and University of Arizona (UOA) in the United States, University of Alberta School of Medicine in Canada and University of The Ryukyus Faculty of Medicine in Japan.  Under the agreements, the NTUCM has sent nearly 100 senior medical students abroad for taking clinical elective clerkships at the affiliated hospitals of the above mentioned schools in the USA and has accepted more than 30 students from them for clinical electives at our university hospital.  Though the Northwestern University does not set up cooperative agreement with the NTUCM in formal, it has agreed to accept our medical students for taking clinical electives at its medical center.  Thus, beginning February 2000, two medical students per year have been sent to the Northwestern University Medical Center for clinical elective clerkships.  Furthermore, with the endowment of Andrew T. Huang Medical Education Promotion Fund, one student per year has been sent to the Duke University Medical Center for similar purpose since 2000.  

      From 1996 to 2000, more than 30 junior faculty members of the NTUCM were sent for learning clinical teaching at HMS, UR, UP and USC.  The outcome has been proven to be beneficial in upgrading our medical education and improving our teaching methods.  In the meantime, the School of Dentistry and the School of Nursing at the NTUCM have also actively established collaborative relationships with foreign schools in recent years.  The number of the NTUCM collaborative schools abroad has increased to thirteen by now.

      In order to manage the rapidly increasing international affairs, the Office of International Projects was established in 1994 and was renamed as the Office of International Affairs since 1997.  The main task of this office is to explore, establish and administer agreements with foreign schools.

National Taiwan University Hospital  

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For more information, please contact  Ms. Hui-Ling Chen

Tel｜(02)2356 ext 265612   Fax｜(02)23710615   E-mail｜113613@ntuh.gov.tw