Dear fellow forumosians :),
I am a German medical student in my final year of study medicine… and I am looking for a possibility to do a 8-week elective period in the field of surgery in a hospital in Taiwan. It must be a teaching hospital, something like a university hospital or so.
Does anyone know whom I may contact for this rather special request?
I am able to speak Chinese, but not able to read it :(.
Many, many years ago I dated a nurse from the Chang Gung hospital in Linkou and at faculty dinners they would generally have some foreign doctors and medical students. I don’t know what arrangements they were there under but you could try contacting the hospital group and asking https://www.cgmh.org.tw/eng2002/contact_mail.htm .
Thank you SuperS54 for that quick reply. My university has mentioned to me only one hospital, the National Taiwan University Hospital as one they would recognize (https://www.ntuh.gov.tw/en/about/default.aspx) . They also mentioned, that it must be a hospital with university teaching, otherwise they would reject it.
Thank you for your support, I will contact both hospitals now.
I am an occupational therapy major at NTU’s college of medicine (and will hopefully be a MD student this fall…hopefully) so if you have any questions about NTU in general feel free to ask me
NTUH, VGH Taipei/Taichung, Tri Service General Hospital, NCKUH, Mackay Memorial Hospital(s), Chang Gung Memorial Hospital(s), CMUH, Tzu Chi Hospital(s), KMUH are all University-affiliated teaching hospitals. There are many others!