Introduction        

The institute was established in 1978 by professor Juei-Low Sung and other teaching faculties.

The goals of the institute is to train clinical doctor to have professional medical research skills, to promote the academic excellence of teachers and progress of whole aspects of clinical medicine research in clinical departments, and ultimately, to push forward the specifically, the mission of this institute is to cultivate outstanding clinical investigators or physician scientists who have adequate knowledge and skills of both clinical and laboratory research methodology.

Students of this institute are expected to have independent abilities and creative vision to find and solve important medical questions, and become the future leaders in biomedicine field. Until J 2003, there are 135 MD,Ph.D. and 30M.M.S

Facilities

The institute is located at the West Site of the National Taiwan University Hospital on the 7th floor of the Building lf Laboratory Diagnosis. the offices and laboratories are shared by the investigators and the graduate students. The main equipment includes a fouorescent-activated cell sorter, DNA sequencer, gene synthesizer, ultracentrifuge, insulin  perfusion apparatus, polygraph, high pressure liquid chromatograph, etc..We also share other necessary equipment with other departments in the Medical College and the University Hospital.

Faculty

full-time : 7

part-time : 1６

Ph.D. Degree : 18

Courses

The main purpose of this post-graduate course is to cultivate doctors in various fields of clinical medicine who are not only highly qualified in a chosen subspecialty but also are well prepared to pursue academic carriers. To meet this purpose, students will be selected from doctors who have finished at least three years of residency training with good standing. In addition to the clinical training, they must have published at least one paper which is equivalent to a master's thesis in quality.

The courses consist of subspecialty training, research studies and understanding of basic sciences related to the subspecialty. The program requires three to seven years for graduation. Besides a doctoral dissertation, a total of at least 34 credits are requited. After written examinations of necessary courses and the defense of a doctoral dissertation, a degree of Doctor of Philosophy is conferred.

Contact Information

Chair : Pei- Jer Chen

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