Taiwan’s NTHU opens Postbaccalaureate Programme in Medicine

Taiwan-based National

Tsing Hua University (NTHU) recently held the opening ceremony for the Post-baccalaureate Programme in Medicine.

The new programme will train students to meet the challenges of tomorrow by focusing on the ABCs of the medical science of the future, viz., Artificial intelligence (AI), Big data, and the Cloud-based internet of things. The Postbaccalaureate Programme in Medicine belongs to the College of Life Science. The first batch of students will include 23 publicly-funded students, 16 of which will be based in the Natural Science Group, and seven in the Information Technology Group. The Programme has already appointed over 100 full-time and joint-appointment faculty members, and that all the required facilities will soon be ready for use, including a dissection room with nine dissection tables. The Programme’s curriculum conforms to international standards. NTHU’s Programme takes more of a systems approach, in which basic and clinical courses are combined, as in the course on the cardiovascular system which integrates such related areas as pharmacology.