Internal Medicine

Department Introduction

Introduction(History and current situation)

Established in October of 1980, the department of internal medicine actually had operated for three months before its opening. The first chief was Dr. 楊蓴. In July 1993, Dr. 周湘台 came back from Japan and became the next chief of the department while Dr. 楊蓴 got promoted to consultant of the department. In November 1999, Dr. 洪瑞松, deputy superintendent of China Medical University Hospital (CMUH), took charge as the chief of the department while Dr. 周湘台 got promoted to consultant of the department. In March 2000, Dr. 邱昌芳 became the next chief of the department. At that time, our department was already in a large-scale operation and had built great reputation in the medical field.

In December 2003, Prof. 黃秋錦 was invited to take over the position of deputy superintendent and chief of the department. In 2008, Prof. Huang became the president of new-opening Taipei branch and quit the chief of the department of CMUH. In August 2008, Dr. 徐武輝, vice chief of the department, got promoted to the chief of the department of internal medicine. Now, there are 134 attending physicians and 16 fellows, all qualified medical specialists in internal medicine, and 38 resident physicians in training.

There are originally 8 subspecialty divisions and 3 intensive care units in our department, namely, cardiology, chest medicine and critical care medicine (respiratory therapy and chest), nephrology, gastroenterology and hepatology, endocrinology & metabolism, rheumatology, hematology and oncology, infectious disease. In April 2006, the division of general medicine was established to cooperate with the national medical policy of Health Administration and to develop physicians’ professionalism. To meet the requirement of development in August 2015, the division of cardiology was expanded to a cardiovascular unit, which consists of the divisions of cardiovascular intervention, cardiovascular radiology, peripheral vascular examination, cardiac arrhythmia and preventive medicine. All the members in the department of internal medicine are passionate and enthusiastic. They made every effort to practice the principle of medical center, service, education and research, and had already got recognition.

The achievement of service, education and research

In the aspect of medical service, the average number of available appointment for doctors in the department is 1559 per week. The average number of outpatient visits is 48155 per month and the number of inpatient is 677 including 54 in intensive care units, 59 with severe illnesses and 564 in general wards.

In the aspect of education, among 134 attending physicians, 63 have teaching qualification including 17 professors, 13 associate professors, 23 assistant professors and 10 instructors. The average number of interns per year is 342 including 112 seventh-grade interns and 230 fifth-grade interns. In addition, we also cooperate with the Ministry of Health and Welfare and the Joint Commission of Taiwan to promote one-year post graduate training of internal medicine. Approximately 57 post graduate year physicians was trained each year from 2014 to 2016. We have participated in the training program for clinical teachers since 2009. From 2009 to 2016, 326 physicians had got the qualification of clinical teacher.

In the aspect of research, the achievement is fruitful. The numbers of papers published in SCI journals in recent years are 159(2014), 171(2015) and 163(2016).

Organization

	Divisions	Supporting divisions in direct control, or affiliated supporting divisions	Integrative medical center or specialty care center
Department of Internal Medicine	Digestive Medicine	Division of Digestive System and Hepatology	Center for Hepatic Diseases
		Division of Digestive System and Gastroenterology	Center for Clinical Trials
		Division of Endoscopic Tumor Operation	Center of Endoscopic Diagnosis and Treatment
			Center of Clinical Treatment for Chronic Hepatitis General Clinical Research Center

	Division of Nephrology		Kideny Institute Center
			Organ Transplantation Center
			Renal Care Center
			Hemodialysis Center
			Peritoneal Dialysis Center
	Division of Cardiovascular Medicine	Section of Interventional Cardiology	Cardiovascular Center
		Section of Cardiac Imaging	Stroke Center
		Section of Peripheral Vascular Disease
		Section of Cardiac Arrhythmia
		Section of Preventive Cardiology
	Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Diseases	Division of Pulmonary Medicine	Center for Hyperbaric Oxygenation Therapy
	Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Diseases	Division of Respiratory Therapy	Sleep Medicine Division
	Division of Metabolism		Center for Diabetes
	Division of Rheumatology and Immunology
	Division of Infectious Diseases
	Hematology and Oncology		Cancer Center
	General Internal Medicine