What are the top medical universities in Taiwan?

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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Hi, guys!
I’m 4th year study student going to Taiwan for medical exchange.
I’m trying to make a decision on what city I want to stay in for 4 weeks during the exchange. I will be working at a university-affiliated hospital.

There is a list of universities:

  1. Kaohsiung Medical university
  2. China medical university in Taichung
  3. Chung Shan Medical University in Taichung
  4. National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taipei
  5. Fu Jen University in New Taipei

Please, tell me which one is better to study and have a good reputation
Thank you for any advice! =)

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National Yang Ming Chiao Tung university has pretty good reputation. They merged with another top non medical school recently.

I haven’t heard of the other ones

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Are there such a thing as a lesser known low ranking medical school? Seems all of them are hard to get into.

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National Yang Ming is well regarded, don’t know much about the others. These are the only options available?

Not sure how accurate this list is, but for what it’s worth…

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-global-universities/taiwan/clinical-medicine

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And https://www.gotouniversity.com/universities-ranking/subject/medicine/taiwan/us-news#:~:text=Medicine%20Universities%20in%20Taiwan%20by%20US%20News,Taiwan%2C%20Review%2C%20Compare%20University%20Rankings%2C%20Tuition%2Cand%20Most

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Do they specialize? Shouldn’t that be part of your decision-making equation?

If you’re only going for 4 weeks though, Taichung kind of sucks. Fu Ren is in the middle is a vast urban nightmare.

Keelung and Yang Ming Mtn are way better, IMO. Just for environment.

Four weeks in Taichung? brrrrrr no thanks :noway:

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China Med in Taichung has a good reputation from talking to people I know when living there. I thought the city as a whole was pretty cool. Not sure exactly what the person above has against the place.

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Experience. :idunno:

I can think of far better places to spend 4 weeks in Taiwan. Like I said, if the OP has a specialty, why not find the appropriate hospital that way?

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Agree, Taichung is my least favorite city in TW

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National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University is the best among the choices in terms of difficulty to get into (They are all hard to get into), and resources. Their affiliated hospital is the Taipei Veterans General Hospital, which is one of the top hospitals in Taiwan. However, they also have a hospital in Yilan, so you should find out which one they will send you before you go.

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If you are not fluent in Chinese, I would suggest you to first check if any courses you want to take will be offered in English (English taught courses are difficult to find for specialized subjects). Also, if you are working in a team, you want to check if your team can communicate in English.

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Pick Fu Jen. You are only here for 4 weeks anyway.

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It doesn’t matter which city.or even which medical school, pick by the content and the supervisors .
Also a 1 month exchange with no clear criteria of what is supposed to be achieved seems fairly pointless in my book. I wouldn’t sign off on it. :slight_smile:

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“Like I said, if the OP has a specialty, why not find the appropriate hospital that way?” I agree with you 100%.
My comment was made with regards to why you said these 2 things about living in Taichung for all of 4 weeks.
“Taichung kind of sucks.”
“Four weeks in Taichung? brrrrrr no thanks.”

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I lived for four years and have visited it many times since. Meh. hot smoggy dusty flat replete with shitkickers

What’s not to hate? :laughing:

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Hot…Any city of considerable size in Taiwan that isn’t?
Smoggy…Yes, air quality is pretty bad many days.
Dusty…I never experienced that. Seemed to be steel and concrete everywhere. Parks all had plenty of grass.
Flat…Big cities in Taiwan that aren’t flat? Are Taipei & Kao considered hilly? I lived in a highrise and had a swwet view of the mountains by DaKun. Some nice, easily accessable hikes were had there.
Shitkickers…Didn’t meet any of those types. I guess I know who best to avoid.

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I’m glad you like it. I do not. Are you one of those come to the defense of Taiwan or in this case Taichung in any circumstance guys? :laughing:

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Not at all. Just not a fan of hearing people piss on a place/person when I don’t think it’s deserved. No worries.

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My sister-in-law’s kid went to medical school in Kaoshiung. Many of the teacher’s used Taiwanese. He ended up skipping most classes and just watching Youtube video instead. Improved his grades that way.

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seems like your are a 4th year medical student who’s has already matched into your specialty. 4 week rotation in Taiwan would be a casual month before starting your PGY1 internship. I would pick programs in Taipei. Yang Ming University would be my suggestion. All 5 choices are good programs.

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Another one is National Taiwan University (NTU); everybody Asian mom LOVES gushing about that school ad nauseam if their kid or even their sibling’s kid got accepted.