The Medical Education Department was set-up in 1996 to promote the related activities of medical education and research. There are 18 departments of which include medical, surgery, obstetrics & gynecology, pediatrics, orthopedics, ophthalmology, family medicine, and CYCH is qualified as a teaching hospital for physicians training in the related special field. All employees and the medical related staff will have special education and training programs according to needs in our services. Its ' responsibilities include the training of interns from medical school and resident doctors in the hospital. In addition, it trains students from all over the country in our various departments, including pharmacy, medical technology, and nursing, nutrition, social work, and hospital management.

The Medical Education Committee has enough budgets for clinical and basic study, and the annual purchasing of books and journals for the medical library. We have an epidemiology lab, and molecular biology lab for our clinical and basic research, short-term studying and research abroad are encouraged to all our staff to get their higher degree and result of research.

Every medical department has its teaching program. Related activities include morning meetings, seminars, chart rounds, reports, and bedside clinical teachings. Moreover, cooperation with others medical centers to invite medical scholars for seminars and teaching is also arranged. Every year the Department regularly conducts various kinds of re-education, actively encouraging the staff to go to domestic and foreign to do medical research and to take advanced courses, which provides high quality medical services to our patients.

The medical library has approximately 1,000 different kinds of western language periodicals, and is equipped with an Audio/Video Computer chat conference room, and an audio and visual classroom. Besides service to hospital staff, the library is also open to the community and the hospital's patients. In order to promote the document delivery service, including delivery by hand, also cooperates in the national periodical catalogue inquiry and inter-institutional network. Moreover the staff may use the hospital network 24 hours a day to inquire about entire texts in the medical e-data base (electronic periodical, electronic pharmacopoeia, electronic reference textbook), assists the medical care staff to obtain in the shortest time their information needs.

Medical Education & Training

CYCH is responsible for the promotion of continuing education to all medical personals and related colleagues in Chia-yi. Accomplished by holding different in-depth teaching-seminars to improve the quality of patient care with the cooperation of other hospitals.

We introduce all related educational training programs such as quality management, service etiquette, computer systems, financial, fire-fighting, character education, to our colleagues. In order to enhance the quality of the employee, since 2000, we have pushed forward a good-character education and the learning-style organization; it is expected that we will be the hospital with the best quality of service.