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Provincial Taipei Vocational School of Medicine (1947–1953)

 

1. Midwifery Special Program (2-year program), from May 1947 to 1949, a total of 15 graduates

In February 1947, the School was established in response to the needs of the actual environment and was named as the Provincial Taipei Vocational School of Medicine. The provincial government appointed Ms. Tan Su-Rung as the School President and during the early days of the school, there weren’t enough school buildings and two houses were temporarily borrowed from the affiliated hospital of the National Taiwan University College of Medicine as temporary school buildings. In May 1947 one class of the 2-year Midwifery Special Program department was opened with 34 students in this program, and the School was officially opened on May 4th.

 2. Nursing Program (3-year program), from October 1947 to 1951, a total of 39 graduates

In September 1947, the Government selected the former site of the Third Girls’ High School during the Japanese occupation period, No. 89 Neijiang Street, Taipei City, as the school building. 1 class of students for the Nursing Program was recruited in October, and the program recruited a second class during the second semester.

3. Midwifery Program (3-year program), from October 1947 to 1950, a total of 31 graduates.

In October 1947, the School recruited the first class of the Midwifery Program.

In March 1948, School President Tan resigned and the provincial government dispatched Ms. Xia De-Zhen, senior specialist at the Health Department, to serve as the School President. When School President Hsia took over, the School only had a few shabby rooms and lacked equipment. The School gradually began to take shape after countless amounts of planning and preparations were made and in terms of software, due to the unique nature of nursing and midwifery education in terms of how much expertise is involved, the School not only required students to enrich themselves with enrich professional knowledge and become proficient in professional skills, but also had students focus on cultivating their willingness to sacrifice and serve others. In order to carry forward this spirit to achieve the unique professional objectives in nursing and midwifery and establish a good school spirit, the School’s included “honesty, responsibility, diligence, prudence, and justice.”

 4. Nursing and Midwifery Joint Training Program (4-year system), from August 1948 to 1966, a total of 1,035 graduates

In view of society’s actual needs and taking the use of educational funds to teach nursing and midwifery simultaneously into consideration, School President Xia set up the program knowing that students could obtain dual qualifications as a nurse and midwife during their enrollment. This was very helpful for economically-challenged medical units as they could use one salary to hire nursing staff with dual specialties in nursing and midwifery. Plans were in place to have a 4-year advanced nursing and midwifery joint training program, which would be submitted for approval and implementation starting from the 1st semester of the 1948 academic year.

On May 4th, 1949, the School’s Teaching Hospital “Women and Children Health Center” was established to provide students with a good internship environment while also benefitting women and children.

In February 1950, School President Xia traveled to the United States to pursue further studies and Ms. Hsu Ai-Zhu, the director of the Nursing Division for the National Health Administration of the Central Health Laboratory, acted as School President on her behalf.

 

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