Medical education takes root!
Today (17), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University held a press conference for the “Introduction to Medicine” digital course. The course will be introduced to New Taipei City’s high schools in the first semester of the 115th academic year. The course was jointly developed by Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, and a team of high school teachers in New Taipei City. It combines higher education, clinical expertise, and high school teaching experience to create a flexible and in-depth digital course for high school students to learn.
Features of the Introduction to Medicine course: Digital learning combined with clinical cases
President Lin Qihong of Yangming National Chiao Tung University mentioned: “For a long time, Yangming National Chiao Tung University has paid great attention to digital learning and sharing of educational resources, and has continued to integrate resources from all walks of life in order to build a learning bridge between high schools, universities, and the industry, so that educational resources can be fully utilized.”
“Introduction to Medicine” is a course produced by Yang Ming Chiao Tung University under the “University and High School Co-creation Online Learning Program (UHCOOL)”. More than 20 professors from the School of Medicine of Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and doctors from Taipei Veterans General Hospital were mobilized to jointly design and record it for high school students. It is exclusively for high school teachers to use in the classroom. It also provides digital learning functions through Yang Ming Chiao Tung University’s ewant open education platform, coupled with carefully designed medical lesson plans, to support high school teachers in running courses and ensure learning effectiveness.
This course covers four major areas: basic medicine, clinical medicine, public health and environmental health, and smart medicine. The course adopts problem-based learning (PBL) to help high school students understand the knowledge of medicine and biology through clinical cases. Dean Chen Weiming of Taipei Veterans General Hospital said that he hopes that through the “Introduction to Medicine” course, a window will be opened for high school students in Taiwan to get in touch with basic medical knowledge, activate more people’s interest in the medical field, and explore the development possibilities of future careers.
Deepen cooperation between universities and high schools to promote the popularization of medical education
In order to smoothly connect the course with the high school learning structure, Yang Ming National Chiao Tung University will cooperate with the New Taipei City Department of Education to hold a “Medical Introduction” course seminar, inviting high school teachers to exchange ideas and discuss how to use this course in high school teaching. New Taipei City Department of Education Director Zhang Mingwen said that New Taipei City has always been actively matching and co-creating learning with universities in the past, providing high school students with a variety of rich self-study courses. Now it is further cooperating with universities to provide a variety of elective credit courses, allowing the high school and university cooperation course model to enter a new milestone. It is expected that this course will help New Taipei City high school teachers and students explore knowledge in the medical field.
Yang Ming National Chiao Tung University has always emphasized that caring for society with the medical profession and reaching every corner of Taiwan is its long-term mission. The “Introduction to Medicine” course plan will be officially launched in the 114th academic year. In the future, it will continue to expand the scope of cooperation and deepen the application of digital learning. It is expected that through the advantages of online education that are not restricted by time and location, high school students across the country will have the opportunity to have a solid and correct understanding of the fields of medicine and health, so as to cultivate more future talents to engage in the profession of medicine and health promotion.
Source：NYCU ewant News https://hero.nycu.edu.tw/20250317/2193/
