Special Feature: The 30th CMAAO General Assembly & 51st Council Meeting
Country Report
TAIWAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION*
1
Ching-Chuan SU1, Jerry-Y.H. CHU2
• By the end of 2014, the number of member
physicians, physician-patient ratio and distribution of practicing physicians at all levels of institutions are shown below:
• Jobs and responsibilities of Taiwan Medical
Association are divided into five categories:
I. Government sponsored projects
1. Recognition of credits of continuing medical
education in medical ethics, medical regulations and healthcare quality
2. 2015 primary care physician services review;
Renewal of physician’s license in Taipei
3. A research on the impact of sleep on health,
the case of sleep apnea; Establishment of system resilience model for emergency and critical care using the resilience engineering
theory
4. A research project on improving quality of
integrated post-acute care payment system
5. Campaigning for hosting international conferences in Taiwan, including the World Medical
Association General Assembly 2016 in Taipei
6. Promoting and facilitating international
exchange and cooperation on health
7. Continuing education for long-term care
professionals
II. Legislative advocacy and policy
formulation
1. Advocacy for patients’ rights while ensuring
equitable financing of the national health
insurance
2. Colon cancer screening volume doubled
with 10% detection rate—achievements
jointly made by TMA, Health Promotion
Administration, experts and attractive rewards.
3. Participating in the planning of long-term care
system & long-term care insurance.
4. Physicians’ consensus meeting suggested
discontinuation of legislation of Medical
Malpractice Resolution and Compensation
Act (draft).
III. Promoting member and public welfare
1. Demanding an increase in physician fee (inpatient and outpatient)
2. Proposing the Ministry of Health and Welfare
to publish a multilingual patient guide.
3. Coordinating emergency care after the water
park explosion incident.
IV. Honors
1. Being awarded the highest honor as an excellent professional organization after a nationwide accreditation process
2. Being publicly acknowledged by the Center
for Disease Control for supporting the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine policy.
V. International relations
1. Japanese medical delegation arrived in Taiwan
to provide medical assistance
2. Signing “The Agreement between the Japan
Medical Association and Taiwan Medical
Association concerning Dispatching Physicians
and Assistance Systems for Medical Relief
Assistance in Disaster Situations”
3. Western Pacific Regional Meeting of the
Medical Women’s International Association
took place in Taipei
4. Donating US$10,000 for the earthquakeaffected Nepal and providing medical
assistance
5. Delegation of Beijing Medical Association visited TMA
6. Health Minister of The Gulf Cooperation
Council (GCC) visited TMA.
*1 This article is base on a presentation made as the Report of Activities by each NMA at the 30th CMAAO General Assembly and 51st Council Meeting, Yangon, Myanmar, on September 23-25, 2015.
1
President, Taiwan Medical Association, Taipei, Taiwan ROC ([email protected]).
2 Vice Secretary General, Taiwan Medical Association, Taipei, Taiwan ROC.
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