Course: Medical Humanity: Engaging Patients and Communities in Healthcare

Welcome to this three-week course. Firstly, for those who have not participated in a medical humanity course before, I would like to give you a short introduction regarding how I …

Read this journal paper by educator Duu Jian Tsai which describes the principles and outcomes of the Living Labs project. You can read the full paper in the See also …

In the past few years, my research team and I have implemented the projects in the tribal area of Taiwan. In this video, I will briefly show you their achievements. …

Most practices of living labs are in the fields of information and communication technology (ICT). Nowadays, an important part of new healthcare development is based on ICT. Thus, my research …

A living lab is a research concept. A living lab is a user-centred, open-innovation ecosystem, often operating in a territorial context (e.g. city, agglomeration, region), integrating concurrent research and innovation …

There are many challenges of medical humanities nowadays. For example, in China, there are hospitals owned by commercial banks. In many economic reports, even in the stocks, “healthcare” becomes a …

From historical points of view, the transformation of medical education is related to changes of societies and politics. The historical impacts on medical education is one of the major research …

The Flexner Report, also called Carnegie Foundation Bulletin Number Four, is a book-length study of medical education in the United States and Canada, written by Abraham Flexner and published in …

Taiwan’s medical education system bears a close relationship with its colonial and post-colonial history. Since the late nineteenth century, Western medicine, Chinese medicine, and the practice of the other forms …

Medical humanities, an interdisciplinary field of medicine, includes humanities, social science, arts, and their applications to medical education and practice. There is no universally agreed definition of the medical humanities. …

After I taught this course in my university, I did get a lot of student feedback. I would like to summarize three aspects of that feedback: Physician level Society level …

Read this journal paper by educator Duu Jian Tsai which proposes incorporating the concept of “doctor as mediator in the changing relationship with patients” into the medical curriculum. You can …

In this video, I am going to talk about how we do community empowerment with the participation of medical students. It integrates with the current curriculum in universities. In the …

Nowadays, aging has become a major issue for many developed countries. At the same time, the needs of healthcare arise tremendously. In the past, only doctors or healthcare workers can …

The Doctor-patient relationship is changing from time to time. In the information age, doctors are no longer the only knowledge sources of healthcare. Patient participation and engagement have become more …