INTRODUCTION

Because of the low diagnostic rate of occupational and environmental diseases, the Department of Health of the Executive Yuan decided to establish OEM (Occupational and Environmental Medicine) as a specialty in medicine and encourage medical centers to set up such a department. The National Taiwan University College of Medicine (NTUMC) had the first occupational physician certified by the American Board of Preventive Medicine in 1982. Sine then, there have been 18 different kinds of occupational diseases documented in collaboration with other departments of the NTUMC and other hospitals in Taiwan. Because Taiwan entered into WTO (World Trade Organization) in 2002, there is an urgent need to provided qualified physicians to promote occupational and environmental health inside industries. Moreover, the passing of ISO14000 (International standard organization for quality certification) in 1996 also produced a need for industry to implement environmental management voluntarily, while the passing of ILO / OSH2001 (International Labor organization / occupational safety and health management system) gave industry additional pressure to implement occupational health services for its factories both inside and outside of this country.

GOALS

The primary educational goal of this department is to educate and train OEM physicians for Asia and provide basic OEM education for medical students in the NTUMC. The research priority will be focused on environmental and occupational epidemiology, gene-environment interaction, health risk assessment technology, biomarker, ecological medicine, cost-effectiveness assessment, and occupational and environmental health services. The faculty members collaborate closely with the NTU Hospital and the College of Public Health in research and teaching activities. Faculty will be jointly appointed in the Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene to conduct research and education.

FACULTY

Professor: 3

Adjunct Professor: 7

Clinical / Part-time Teachers: 4

Doctoral Degree: 13
 

Section Head / Professor

Chi-Hsien Chen 

MD, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan;
PhD, Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Full-Time

Professor

Yue-Liang Guo MD, National Taiwan Univ. Taiwan; MPH, Harvard Univ. USA; Ph.D., John Hopkins Univ. U.S.A.
 

Co-joint appointment

Professor

Tsun-Jen Cheng   

MD, Taipei Medical College; Sc.D., Harvard University, U.S.A.

Pau-Chung Chen 

MD, Kaohsiung Medical College; MSPH, National Taiwan Univ.; M.Sc., Ph.D., London School of Hygiene and Tropical

Medicine, Univ. of London, United Kingdom

Tyng-Guey Wang           

MD, National Taiwan Univ. Taiwan

Cheng-Chung Fang

MD, National Taiwan Univ. Taiwan

Shwu-Fen Wang

PhD in Anatomy, Medical College of Virginia

Jia-Kun Chen
PhD.National Cheng Kung University

Clinical

associate professor

Chi-Hsien Chen

Ph.D, Graduate Institute of Public Health, National Taiwan University

Ching-Chun Huang

Ph.D, Graduate Institute of Public Health, National Taiwan University

Ph.D, Graduate Institute of Public Health, National Taiwan University

Lecturer

Chung-Li Du

Ph.D, Graduate Institute of Public Health, National Taiwan University

CURRICULUM

A course “Environment and Health” (2 credit hours) is provided to the 2nd year medical student. A course “Environmental and Occupational Diseases” is provided to the 4th year medical students. “Clinical Clerkship in Environmental and Occupational Medicine” is provided to the 6th year medical students. An international internet-based long distance learning course “International Environmental and Occupational Health” (2 credit hours) is provided to 4th or 5th year medical students, which include lecturers and students from Taiwan (National Taiwan University), Japan (University of Occupational and Environmental Health), Singapore (National University of Singapore), Korea (Seoul National University), and Malaysia (United National University). This course broadens global perspectives in students and faculty members.
 

RESIDENCY TRAINING

The clinical department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine was established in National Taiwan university Hospital in 2006. Currently 5 visiting staff doctors are the faculty members of this program. Each year we admit 2 full time residents, and up to 2 part-time residents for training in environmental and occupational medicine. Completion of the training leads to board eligibility for the specialty board of environmental and occupational medicine. Up to 2011, 5 full-time and 4 part-time residents completed the training program, and all of them became board-certified at the first board examination.