Mackay Medical College

[Department of Medicine]

Cultivate future Dr. Mackays and outstanding physicians to provide the greatest contribution to the world.

Department Features
1. The best student-teacher ratio in the country (3.48)
2. High pass rate in national exams every year (93% in the first stage and 100% in the second stage in the 114th academic year)
3. Emphasizing medical humanities in the “clinical field”
4. Seamless connection between learning and employment channels: Mackay Hospital currently has four branch hospitals in Taipei, Tamsui, Hsinchu, and Taitung, with smooth employment and promotion channels.
5. Caring for disadvantaged groups and balancing medical resources

Teaching Resources
The Department of Medicine currently has basic subject laboratory classrooms, including 8 subjects such as biology, general chemistry, anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pharmacology, pathology, and parasitology, as well as 6 small discussion rooms, a gross anatomy room, and a specimen display room. Mackay Memorial Hospital has invested NT$3 billion to build a new medical building in the Tamsui branch, with specially designed consultation rooms and multiple discussion rooms to meet PBL teaching needs. In addition, 12 of the newest OSCE training classrooms (including 6 discussion classrooms) have been completed and put into use.

Featured Courses
1. Practical Anatomy: Gross anatomy is the most basic subject for entering the medical profession. Practical anatomy fully embodies the characteristics of medical courses that combine knowledge and practice. This department insists on a learning method based on physical dissection operations. On the one hand, it trains students in the skills of touching cutting separating finding and identifying human body structures; on the other hand, it allows students to personally practice, independently analyze and summarize the human anatomy of each structure and each part in the anatomy laboratory.

2. Medical Humanities Course: The course organizes medical students’ debates on ethical news issues related to medicine, education, and society. According to the progress of the course plan, teachers related to medical humanities education are arranged to talk with students. The course includes understanding the medical, psychological, and health education in remote areas of Taiwan and the geographical and epidemiological conditions of indigenous peoples, and understanding the relationship between medical ethics, medical law, medical history, medical sociology, and modern doctors.

3. Problem-Based Learning (PBL): Through PBL (problem-based learning) teaching plans written by clinical physicians, the description of stories is used to integrate disease symptoms, development processes, etc., so that students can make critical decisions based on evidence and understand the differential diagnosis, symptoms, causes, treatment principles, and prognosis of diseases, and cultivate students’ skills in solving medical problems. At the same time, medical humanities concepts are added and in-depth discussions are conducted through medical ethics issues.

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
Suitable for engaging in physicians, public health personnel, and pathological and pharmacological researchers, and with the Mackay medical system as a strong backing, you can serve as a physician in various branch hospitals.

⦁ Further Education Options:
The school has established a Master’s Program in Clinical Medicine, a Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences (Master’s Program, Doctoral Program), a Graduate Institute of Long-Term Care, and a Graduate Institute of Geriatric Welfare Technology. The hospital also has complete channels for studying abroad. Graduates of the Department of Medicine can choose a career plan based on clinical service or teaching and research according to their interests.

[Department of Nursing]

Cultivate nursing staff who can be competent in clinical patient care, care for the disadvantaged, and have an international perspective.

Department Features
The teachers in this department have expertise in various fields, rich practical experience, and uphold educational enthusiasm, playing a role model for students’ learning, integrating general education and professional courses to promote students’ development of empathy and high-quality emotions.
This department grasps domestic and foreign resources, provides various learning opportunities to stimulate service, technology, and international concepts, and actively combines the acute, chronic, and long-term care systems of the Mackay medical system to gradually integrate theory and practice, fully utilize practical cases, and cultivate nursing professional abilities and knowledge.

Teaching Resources
The department’s teaching space includes a skills center, an obstetrics nursing demonstration classroom, and small discussion rooms. All equipment is coordinated with clinical situations, and management, maintenance, and updates are all managed by a dedicated team to maintain the best functional status.

Featured Courses
1. Hospice Care: This school was established by Mackay Hospital based on the ideals of Dr. Mackay, and Mackay’s Hospice and Palliative Care Center is the most important place in Taiwan for training hospice care personnel. Medical staff also need to frequently face medical and care choices for patients in the terminal stages of their illnesses in their clinical work. Students who take this course will have the concept of hospice care, understand the management of terminal symptoms, and the care methods for the physical, mental, social, and spiritual needs of terminal patients and their families.

2. Introduction to Acute and Critical Care Nursing: This course guides students’ interest in acute and critical care nursing, the ability to use critical thinking, coordination, and cooperation, so that students have basic assessment, knowledge, and processing skills for acute and critical patients. Before the end of the course, a simulated patient resuscitation scenario is combined with the application of course theory to allow students to actually face the patient’s resuscitation process and cultivate students’ confidence and ability to deal with emergency treatment of acute and critical patients.

3. Introduction to Long-Term Care: Long-term care is a very popular issue today. Currently, almost all medical universities offer long-term care programs, which can expand students’ horizons and increase future employment options.

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
1. Clinical Nursing: Participate in the special technical examination to obtain a nursing license and serve in major hospitals and long-term care institutions.
2. Teaching and Research: Apply for domestic and foreign medical and nursing-related graduate schools, teaching in schools or major hospitals and other institutions.
3. Administration and Management: Serve as administrative management personnel in major institutions, research and development and business personnel in medical and nursing-related industries.
4. Research and development and business personnel in medical and nursing-related industries.

⦁ Further Education Options:
This school has a Master’s Program in Nursing, which can provide nurses with continuing education.

Industry-Academia Collaboration
Mackay Memorial Hospital has 4 major branch hospitals in Taiwan (Taipei, Tamsui, Hsinchu, and Taitung), and a new Hsinchu Municipal Children’s Hospital was built in 111. By combining the hospital’s abundant clinical medical resources and research and teaching capabilities, the school enhances its teaching energy, and students can go to various branch hospitals for observation and internship courses. After graduation, you can directly connect with Mackay as your first choice for your workplace!

[Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology]

Cultivate high-quality and caring audiologists and speech-language pathologists.

Department Features
Mackay Memorial Hospital has an excellent pediatric medical and nursing team, and the Department of Otolaryngology is a pioneer in newborn hearing screening in Taiwan. The clinical audiology and speech centers in the Taipei and Tamsui branches have complete audiology and speech professionals and equipment. In response to the curriculum needs of this department, teachers in different professional fields are hired to provide more comprehensive audiology and speech professional courses. Therefore, this department has a deep and complete foundation in terms of curriculum teachers, clinical teaching teachers, and equipment, and can provide rich and solid audiology and speech professional theoretical teaching. Excellent clinical teaching teachers and excellent clinical training and environmental equipment are the characteristics of the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.

Teaching Resources
Currently, the department has the most complete audiology and speech teaching practice center, clinical education center, and audiology and speech research laboratory center in the country, with various professional spaces (such as professional IAC soundproof rooms, acoustic analyzer examination rooms, large audiology observation rooms, language acoustic research rooms, etc.), equipped with international standard audiology and language equipment (such as tympanometers, pure tone audiometers, aerodynamic analyzers, nasal sound analyzers, and many other instruments) and a professional remote audio-visual monitoring language clinical education center, and video equipment for synchronous online clinical teaching with Mackay Memorial Hospital.

Featured Courses
1. Basic Audiology Observation/Internship
This department plans for audiology students in their junior year to observe at Mackay Memorial Hospital. The observation areas include the otolaryngology outpatient clinic, balance/dizziness examination room, and audiology examination room. The observation goal is to enable students to understand the hospital’s routine and clinical audiologist’s work flow, familiarize themselves with the theory and operation methods of various audiological assessment tools, and lay the necessary practical operation ability for clinical internships in their senior year.

2. Speech Sound Discrimination and Visual Reading
This course is the first of its kind in Taiwan, combining a cloud practice platform to teach how to effectively visually read speech materials written in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), use IPA to transcribe normal and abnormal speech, develop stable and professional Mandarin speech transcription technology and visual reading ability, and apply it to the assessment and diagnosis of speech abnormality cases.

3. Basic Speech Therapy Internship
This course is an internship course. Students will actually contact cases and practice what they have learned in class at the on-campus audiology and speech center and related off-campus institutions. Under the guidance of clinical professionals, students can choose appropriate assessment tools and conduct assessments based on case information, make appropriate clinical speculations, write assessment reports, design treatment plans, and train communication and expression skills, laying the necessary practical professional ability for clinical internships in their senior year.

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
1. Clinical services such as audiologists and speech-language pathologists in general hospitals.
2. Clinical services such as audiology and speech rehabilitation in public and private rehabilitation hospitals.
3. Hearing aid companies engage in hearing aid selection and hearing rehabilitation work.
4. Self-employment to establish audiology clinics/speech therapy clinics.
5. Assist and participate in government education (special education units) and social (disability welfare) units to plan (and implement) services for the hearing impaired and speech impaired.
6. Engage in basic research on hearing and language, such as studying abroad, research and development units of hearing aids or communication aids technology companies.
⦁ Further Education Options:
This department has a Master’s Program in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology, which can provide audiologists and speech therapists with continuing education.

[Department of Optometry]

Cultivate professional optometrists who are engaged in clinical optometry, industry, visual science research, and cross-disciplinary abilities.

Department Features
The only Department of Optometry in the country that is directly affiliated with the medical school system, under the education system with the medical school as the main body, cultivates professional optometry talents with clinical practice, industrial expertise, and cross-domain learning capabilities. With the medical school as the main body, combining basic science, basic medicine, clinical optometry, and cross-disciplinary learning, the focus is on cultivating optometrists with optometric medical expertise, research and innovation capabilities, and cross-disciplinary expertise in biomedical engineering, medical engineering, and optical design.

Teaching Resources
1. With basic science, basic medicine, and optometry professional courses as the three main axes, cultivate optometry professional abilities, and provide students with three cross-disciplinary elective programs, including biomedical and visual science research, intelligent medical instrument design and development, and lens material and optical system design, to help students become high-level optometry cross-domain talents.

2. Clinical teaching is equipped with multi-functional teaching laboratories, clinical optometry laboratories, contact lens laboratories, spectacle configuration laboratories, and low vision assessment and assistive device laboratories to provide students with complete curriculum planning and a teaching environment.

3. In terms of clinical internships, integrate the rich clinical resources of the four major hospital districts of Mackay Hospital to provide students with diverse and complete internship opportunities. Covering the professional equipment and technical support in the field of optometry, from ophthalmology outpatient clinics, operating rooms to optometry clinics, students will learn in actual clinical environments, contact different cases, and increase clinical experience.

4. Connect with international optometry, cooperate with Pacific University in the United States and the University of Queensland in Australia to establish a bridge for teacher-student exchanges and expand academic horizons and clinical experience.

Featured Courses
The curriculum planning of this department is based on the teaching policy of the medical school, emphasizing both basic medicine and clinical optometry practice, so that optometry teaching is closely integrated with the industry, comprehensively considering the workplace environment and industrial context, connecting with the international optometry academic community, providing students of this department with a high-quality environment, and cultivating optometry medical personnel with professional medical literacy.

1. Optometry Holistic Medical Education: Focus on medical education and optometry practical education.
2. Strengthen industry-academia cooperation with the optometry industry: Actively expand basic academic research and cooperation with the industry.
3. Closely exchange with international related optometry academic institutions: Participate in research and service communities in the international optometry professional field.
4. Create diverse employment advantages in the optometry industry: Expand students’ future development in the cross-disciplinary field of optometry medical electronics.

Integrate related departments such as the Department of Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology and the Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Regenerative Medicine to promote precise vision testing and regenerative visual aging medicine, create a comprehensive health care system with good hearing and vision, and improve the quality of life and health and well-being of the elderly.

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
1. Optometrist: Responsible for vision examination, eyeglass prescription, and spectacle configuration-related operations.
2. Product Specialist: Serve as product management planning for optical lens companies, contact lens companies, or ophthalmic instrument companies, conduct market research and sales support.
3. Education and Training Personnel: Provide product knowledge training in optical lens companies, contact lens companies, or ophthalmic instrument companies, understand product characteristics and advantages, and effectively promote them.
4. Biotechnology R&D Personnel: Use animal and cell research on eye diseases and related treatments, and apply the research results to the field of visual science.
5. Other Researchers: Cooperate with national bio-industry policies to create researchers in the research and medicine of optometry medicine and optical-related materials.

⦁ Further Education Options:
1. Engage in visual and biomedical research: Optometry teachers, researchers.
2. Optometry Doctor Degree: Overseas optometry doctor practice, optometry teachers, optometry industry.

Industry-Academia Collaboration
In addition to the clinical resources of Mackay Hospital in the four major hospital districts in Taiwan, clinical internships also cooperate with major domestic chain optometry clinics (Baodao Optical, Xiaolin Optical, and Deentang Optical) and ophthalmology medical institutions (Mackay Hospital, Baodao Ophthalmology) to provide students with internship and employment opportunities.

[Department of Medical Laboratory Science and Regenerative Medicine]

The ability of “Clinical Medical Laboratory Testing”, “Regenerative Medicine” and “Precision Medicine” in one department.

Department Features
This department is different from traditional medical laboratory science departments. In addition to striving to enable students to master the core capabilities of clinical medical laboratory testing, it also enables students to have a second expertise in regenerative medicine or precision testing. Not only consolidate the profession of medical laboratory technologist, but also expand to the prospective field of future medicine, allowing students to have more diverse professional strengths and enhance their competitive advantage in the workplace.
After completing four years of study, in addition to being able to take the national examination for medical laboratory technologists, the curriculum also designs learning content that is closely connected with industry trends, allowing students to have the opportunity to further contact and cultivate the ability to obtain relevant qualifications, such as: precision medical development and application, regenerative medical research and development and application, GTP laboratory training, LDTS laboratory development. These courses not only demonstrate the professional depth of the department, but also allow students to contact the most critical knowledge and skills of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry early, seize the trend of industrial development, and seamlessly connect with the international trends of precision medicine and regenerative medicine.

Teaching Resources
Basic Medicine and Professional Teachers:
The school already has complete basic medicine and basic science teachers, and actively recruits a new generation of professional teachers with precision medicine and regenerative medicine backgrounds to form a solid and forward-looking teaching team responsible for professional courses and talent cultivation.
High-end Laboratories and Equipment:
The school has established complete research and teaching facilities, including: the teaching laboratory planning of this department connected with practice (including GTP and LDTS laboratories), and the clinical internship environment of Mackay Hospital. These resources provide teachers and students with a rich practical environment, allowing academic research and clinical application to be closely integrated, and greatly improving learning effectiveness.

Featured Courses
In terms of professional training, in addition to the training of clinical medical laboratory technologists, this department also prospectively introduces “Precision Medicine” and “Regenerative Medicine” courses, aiming to cultivate biomedical talents with cross-domain capabilities and closely connect with industry needs.
The four-year curriculum not only completely covers the courses and credits required for the Higher Examination of Medical Laboratory Technologist Professional Technology (including 800 hours of clinical internship), but also designs the freshman courses to be more diversified, allowing students to start contacting exploration courses in precision medicine and regenerative medicine, strengthening future directions and providing inspiration and guidance.
Entering the second semester of the sophomore year, students can choose the field of “Precision Medicine” or “Regenerative Medicine” according to their interests and career plans, and conduct more refined track training through professional teachers, and obtain in-depth and solid training in the field they are passionate about.
This curriculum not only ensures that all students meet the qualifications for the national medical laboratory technologist examination, but also allows students who focus on precision medicine or regenerative medicine to show unique professional identification during their studies and lay a bright foundation for future career development.

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
1. Hospital Clinical Work After graduation, you can participate in the national medical laboratory technologist examination, and after passing the examination, become a professional in the hospital clinical laboratory, collecting, analyzing, and issuing reports for specimens, providing the most critical basis for clinical diagnosis and treatment.
2. Researchers The planned experimental course training is solid, laying a good foundation for students’ future research and development.
3. Public Service After graduating from this department, students can pass the national examination to enter government units such as the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control, and the Health Bureau (Office) to participate in public health and testing-related work.
4. Industry Development You can enter LDTS and GTP laboratories, biotechnology companies or pharmaceutical factories to serve as high-level technicians, cell therapy R&D engineers, gene testing technicians, R&D or product specialists, and be close to the core of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry.

⦁ Further Education Options:
The training of this department covers life science, chemical principles and analysis, microbiology, immunology, clinical medicine, big data analysis and other majors. After graduation, you can further study life science, biomedical or cross-domain related graduate schools to continue to expand your professional height.

Industry-Academia Collaboration
Through cooperation with Mackay Hospital and the precision regenerative medicine industry, a complete clinical internship and employment connection system is constructed, which not only provides students with diverse internship fields, but also paves a solid road for future career development.

[Graduate Institute of Biomedical Sciences]

Cultivate graduate students with the core knowledge of molecular biomedicine and the ability to apply it to clinical discovery research.

Department Features
1. Integrated Research of Clinical and Basic Medicine:
The Graduate Institute and the Mackay Memorial Hospital system are in the same line. The Medical College and the hospital have close research cooperation to fully combine biomedical research and clinical medical applications as the ultimate goal.

2. Forward-looking Courses and Research:
The curriculum of this institute aims to establish integrated research of basic and clinical medicine and develop translational medicine, and is committed to the pathogenesis of modern civilization diseases; with the educational goal of “cultivating graduate students with the core knowledge of molecular biomedicine and the ability to apply it to basic or clinical research.”

Teaching Resources
The institute and the school have valuable instrument centers, equipped with various advanced and new instruments and equipment, such as new confocal microscopes, multiple fluorescent microscopes, microinjection instruments, flow cytometry, cell sorters, in vivo molecular imaging systems, real-time quantitative PCR, HPLC/FPLC, Seahorse biological energy measuring instruments, etc.
In addition, multiple cell culture rooms and advanced P2 laboratories are also set up for teachers and students to conduct various biomedical-related research work.

Featured Courses
Focus on the integration of basic and clinical
Since the 109th academic year, “Basic Clinical Integrated Elective Courses” have been summarized for graduate students to choose from, including: modern molecular medicine research methods, animal models for cardiovascular research, special topics in clinical biomedical research, and special topics in advanced clinical biomedical research.

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
Career planning briefings are held every year, inviting related hospitals, biotechnology companies, and pharmaceutical factories to explain the employment needs in biomedicine and the qualifications required.

⦁ Further Education Options:
The school has a Master’s Program and a Doctoral Program in Biomedical Sciences, which can provide students with continuing education.

[Graduate Institute of Long-Term Care]

To cultivate interdisciplinary advanced professionals with abilities in long-term care-related practice, management, teaching, and research.

Department Features
In response to the global aging population, the Graduate Institute of Long-Term Care advocates for the concept of interdisciplinary team-based healthcare and emphasizes teaching, research, management, and practice. It coordinates various resources from the long-term care industry, government, and academia, aiming to cultivate advanced talents with an international perspective to contribute to the long-term care industry.

Teaching Resources
The institute’s teaching spaces include a conference room, small classrooms, a Mind-Body Activation Research Center, a Care Innovation Research Center, and graduate student rooms. Environmentally friendly laboratories will be gradually established. The university has already set up diverse creative classrooms and seven complete e-learning facilities and interdisciplinary research equipment. It also integrates resources from Mackay Hospital’s geriatric medicine, long-term care, and internationally certified hospice education center to provide graduate students with internship and research opportunities.

Featured Courses
Integrated long-term care professional courses
Three curriculum modules are planned: Health Care, Policy and Management, and Friendly Environment and Technology.
The institute has diverse professional faculty and plans interdisciplinary learning courses to provide students with diverse courses tailored to their learning goals, cultivating long-term care professionals to meet the professional needs of long-term care in society.

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
Graduates of this institute can become practitioners, facility managers, and long-term care educators in the field of long-term care. They can be employed in related long-term care facilities after graduation.

⦁ Further Education Options:
Apply for doctoral programs in domestic and foreign long-term care, physical therapy, environmental design, and aging industry-related fields.

[Graduate Institute of Geriatric Welfare Technology]

To cultivate students with core competencies in humanistic care and innovative research, as well as the ability to collaborate in diverse teams, to become interdisciplinary talents who can analyze and solve issues related to the life care of the elderly and sub-healthy populations.

Department Features
1. To cultivate interdisciplinary talents who can analyze and solve issues related to the life care support technology for the elderly and sub-healthy populations.
2. To establish high-quality applied research that combines modern engineering technology, living technology, long-term care, life sciences, and clinical medicine.
3. To dedicate to applying Taiwan’s advantageous industrial technologies to develop innovative products and services, and to develop a globally competitive next-generation technology industry for elderly population care support.
4. To promote cooperation among various academic specialties within the university, connect Mackay’s advantageous clinical medical care, and extend the development of an integrated teaching model and team that focuses on community and in-home aging long-term care support technology.

Teaching Resources
1. Equipment:
A complete range of shared instrument laboratories has been established for use by the institute. There are various cloud servers, electronic development equipment, 3D printing devices, human motion analysis systems, etc.

2. Laboratories:
There are computer-aided design and analysis rooms, aging and intergenerational innovation design laboratories, limb and mobility support laboratories, communication and information interaction laboratories, smart and friendly space laboratories, and empowerment and health resilience laboratories.

3. Teaching Space and Facilities:
There are sufficient dedicated classrooms and seminar rooms, as well as complete e-learning facilities, which can be used for synchronous or asynchronous digital teaching. The moodle digital teaching platform is combined with the virtual classroom function of remote video to offer a variety of interactive self-study courses that transcend time and space limitations.

Featured Courses
The Graduate Institute of Geriatric Welfare Technology will focus on human nature, technology, and the welfare of the elderly, focusing on the development of support technologies for the good environment and life required by the aging population: key points include aging and intergenerational innovation, limb and mobility support, smart and friendly spaces, and communication and information interaction.

1. Technological Development of Aging and Intergenerational Innovation
Focusing on the psychological and social issues of technology for the elderly and intergenerational interaction, including
⦁ Technological applications and design for active aging and intergenerational interaction
⦁ Technological applications and design for elderly learning/education
⦁ Promotion and assessment of elderly physical and mental health

2. Technological Development of Limb and Mobility Support
Focusing on the research and development of mobility support and assistive technology for the elderly, including
⦁ Individual transient mobility support technology and construction design
⦁ Application design of mobility support and assistive technology and environmental integration

3. Technological Development of Smart and Friendly Spaces
Focusing on the research and development of smart home-related technologies for the elderly, including
⦁ Friendly environment design and improvement: environmental needs analysis and customized modular design
⦁ Smart technology application and monitoring: using cloud and IoT technology to build a smart home network

4. Technological Development of Communication and Information Interaction
The focus will be on the development of communication and information retrieval, exchange, and application technologies for the elderly, including
⦁ Information communication and application
⦁ Digital application and health support for the elderly
⦁ Diversity information analysis
⦁ Information application and artificial intelligence aging application design

5. Technological Development of Empowerment and Health Resilience
The focus will be on the professional practice of promoting and empowering the health functions of the elderly, including:
⦁ Design of empowerment activities for the elderly and assessment of health functions
⦁ Formulation and practice of precise exercise plans for the elderly
⦁ Aging health management and preventive medicine

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
1. Participate in innovative research and development of technology industries related to the life and care of the elderly, including smart and friendly spaces, limb and mobility support design, and communication and information interaction design.
2. Participate in the innovative technology development, support system design, and technology required for the operation of long-term care professional medical and institutions, and can engage in the planning and technical consulting work for the promotion of related support technology policies.

⦁ Further Education Options:
Apply for doctoral research in domestic and foreign medical engineering, smart buildings, information applications, physical therapy, and various engineering technologies.

Industry-Academia Collaboration
The institute has signed academic and industrial exchange cooperation memorandums with Olida Co., Ltd., Jih Tai Precision Industry Co., Ltd., and Kang Ling United Health Business.

[Master’s Program in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology]

Cultivate advanced talents in audiology and speech-language research, management, and specialties!

Department Features
In order to fulfill its social responsibility, the Master’s program of this department is based on the initial intention of deepening the basic development of the field of audiology and speech-language science, enhancing the professionalism of clinical supervision and teaching and management, and promoting the development of new integrated service models. It is committed to cultivating advanced talents in audiology and speech-language clinical services and education. Whether it is faculty or software and hardware equipment, it has a profound and solid audiology and speech-language professional teaching faculty and research environment, making this department a truly “department-institute integration” and “emphasis on clinical practice and research” department, hoping to lead the trend of domestic audiology and speech-language professional development.

Teaching Resources
Currently, the department has a national audiology and speech-language teaching practice center, a clinical education center, and a research and experimental center with the most complete equipment. It has various professional spaces (such as: professional IAC soundproof rooms, acoustic analyzer examination rooms, audiology room large observation rooms, language acoustic research rooms, etc.), equipped with international standard audiology and language equipment (such as tympanometers, pure tone audiometers, aerodynamic analyzers, nasometers, and many other instruments), and video equipment for synchronous online clinical teaching with Mackay Memorial Hospital.

Featured Courses
This Master’s program is divided into a speech-language therapy group and an audiology group. Students major in their respective admission groups. The courses include 14 credits of required professional basic courses, 6 credits of required Master’s thesis, and at least 18 credits of elective courses in three fields (at least 12 credits of core electives, at least 6 credits of free electives). The total graduation credits for the two groups must be at least 38 credits.

The elective courses in the three fields are:
⦁ Field 1: Research Topic Courses
⦁ Field 2: Clinical Supervision and Education Courses
⦁ Field 3: Innovative Service Integration Courses

The course arrangement of this Master’s program is concentrated on classes from Monday to Wednesday, which is convenient for on-the-job students to take leave for further studies and allows graduate students to have more time to study research.

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
1. Talents for basic audiology and speech-language research: medical research department, teachers of audiology and speech-language departments, R&D personnel in audiology and speech-language related industries.
2. Audiology and speech-language clinical supervision and management talents: various medical institutions, clinics.
3. Talents who invest in diversified services and innovative services: go out of existing clinical institutions, with audiology and speech-language services as the main axis, and promote the development of integrated services (education system, long-term care, early treatment, rural services).
4. Clinical work of audiologists and speech-language therapists: including self-employment, hospital early treatment system, school special education system, Ministry of Health and Welfare long-term care system, hospital rehabilitation system, hospital otolaryngology system.
5. Audiology and speech-language communication enhancement industry work: including communication aids, hearing aids (CI/HA/ALD), sound industry, AI industry.

⦁ Further Education Options:
Those who are interested in research (industry)/overseas further studies (teaching positions) after graduation can connect to domestic and foreign related advanced audiology and speech-language doctoral programs after completing this Master’s program.

[Master’s Program in Nursing]

Cultivate master-level “Nurse Practitioners” to strengthen the value of nursing professional roles and clinical care functions.

Department Features
The establishment of this Master’s program aims to create a platform for the exchange and sharing of advanced clinical care practice and professional academics; the focus of industry-academia resource connection is to horizontally connect the resources of the four campuses of Mackay Memorial Hospital and northern hospitals, and vertically to use and extend the existing resources of various departments of Mackay Medical University, and based on this, to train master-level “Nurse Practitioners” with both academic research and clinical care capabilities that meet the expectations of Taiwanese society.

Teaching Resources
1. The Department of Nursing of Mackay Medical University has been established for many years and has passed the quality assurance accreditation entrusted by universities and colleges. It has an excellent faculty and teaching environment, excellent school performance, and has the backing of internship sites provided by Mackay Memorial Hospital (Taipei, Tamsui, Hsinchu and Taitung campuses).

2. The curriculum planning will focus on student learning. Two days of courses will be arranged each week. In order to be close to clinical practice teaching, in addition to the school classrooms, the teaching resources of Tamsui Mackay Memorial Hospital will also be used to avoid the hardship of students facing the hardship of traveling during the course and internship period.

Featured Courses
The core competencies of graduates of this Master’s program are:

In addition to corresponding to the core competencies of graduates, the curriculum design of this Master’s program will include professional foundation (including 6 credits for thesis, a total of 22 credits), professional core (10 credits) and electives (6 credits), with a total of 38 credits for graduation.
Those who do not yet have an NP license or training certificate are advised to take courses such as Health Problem Diagnosis and Treatment, Clinical Evidence-Based Care, and Special Topics in Nurse Practitioner Internship to meet the training course requirements announced by the Taiwan Nurse Practitioner Association (184 hours of academic courses and 504 hours of clinical training). Students will be qualified to take the exam after graduation.

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
Graduates have social functions such as clinical care experts, managers, consultants, coordinators, case managers, and policy participants. After graduation, they can also be employed in medical care institutions throughout Taiwan through the connection of related resources of the Mackay Medical System.

⦁ Further Education Options:
Further studies in domestic nursing doctoral programs.

Industry-Academia Collaboration
Mackay Memorial Hospital has been cultivating medical clinical care in Taipei, Tamsui, Hsinchu and Taitung for many years. It is a qualified nurse practitioner training hospital. Professional care talents with rich academic background and clinical experience can not only provide the public with high-quality care, but also serve as clinical teachers to assist in the development of practical training courses for the Master’s program of this department. Students can also be employed in related systems of Mackay Hospital after graduation, which has a complementary effect.

[Master’s Program in Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine]

Cultivate doctors with research ability, innovative thinking, and international competitiveness.

Department Features
The Department of Medicine of Mackay Medical College (hereinafter referred to as the Department) has always adhered to the educational goal of “Continuing the Mackay spirit and cultivating good doctors of tomorrow”, and has cultivated many excellent doctors, which has been highly recognized by the medical community and society. However, with the change of population structure, future doctors will face more challenges. They must have the ability to master the latest medical knowledge and technology, and show excellence and innovation in a diverse and complex medical environment.
Taiwan has entered an aging society, and the medical field is paying increasing attention to issues such as aging medicine, regenerative medicine, precision medicine, cardiovascular disease and preventive medicine, chronic disease treatment, immunity and cancer medicine, and neuro and psychiatric medicine, which emphasizes the importance of the Department’s cultivation of clinical talents in the above fields.
In order to cooperate with the Department’s “Doctor Scientist Credit Program” and the educational concept of “gap year” after graduation, to provide potential medical students with further study channels, it is urgent to establish advanced clinical medical education courses and cultivate clinical professional doctors in the above fields to respond to social needs and adapt to future changes in the medical environment.

Teaching Resources
The Department has PBL discussion rooms, pathology laboratories, micro-immunity and parasitology laboratories, general chemistry laboratories, general biology laboratories, and medical morphology laboratories, all of which are provided for teachers and students to use for teaching.
The Department applied for the establishment of the “Master’s Program in Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine” in the 114th academic year. According to the existing teaching and research space and resources, it is confirmed that the teaching resources are sufficient.
In response to future growth, it is planned to establish a “Medical Department Discussion Room” in the 114th academic year, adding discussion tables and projection screens and other required facilities to provide teachers and students of the Department with functions such as classes, thesis discussions or meetings.

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The key development areas of the school are “Aging Medicine, Regenerative Medicine, and Precision Medicine”.
The Master’s Program in Clinical Medicine of the Department will cooperate with this direction, and actively promote other fields such as cardiovascular and preventive medicine, immunity and cancer medicine, and neuro and psychiatric medicine, and further extend to drug research, interventional therapy, stem cells, gene and cell therapy research, and brain and behavioral psychology research and other applied medical fields.

Future Development
⦁ Career Development:
1. After graduation, you can engage in clinical specialist doctors, rural or primary medical services, clinical researchers, and medical educators.
2. Those who already have a full-time status can strengthen their medical professional ability after graduation and be more competitive in hospitals or medical institutions

⦁ Further Education Options:
In the future, we will strive to establish a “Doctoral Program in Clinical Medicine, Department of Medicine” to further cultivate master’s and doctoral-level clinical doctors and implement the educational mission of “Cultivating Good Doctors of Tomorrow”.