Medical services:
The Emergency Department consists of Emergency Medicine and Trauma care Division, which provide emergency care to the patients in acute illness and distress. It focuses on the rapid identification of life-threatening conditions, performance of stabilizing procedures, and then further assessment to identify a more definite diagnosis. Besides, special examination rooms and facilities are also available for otorhinolaryngologists, ophthalmologists and dentists to offer emergency care to patients with related problems. In order to provide accurate diagnosis and treatment, the department itself has its own examination laboratories, x-ray, endoscope sonography facilities and a spiral CT scanner. A “7-11 type” working provided the emergent service to the people of the whole Southern Taiwan.
Training Program:
The advancement of a certain department relies on the quality of its personnel and in the same light; the influx of these personnel depends mainly on their interest in the department’s training program. Hence aside from their daily shift work ( including day, evening and night), the medical and traumatic consultant is assigned weekly to provide clinical teaching. Besides, by the end of the month, a pitfall conference is held to further increase the understanding of patients and to share valuable clinical experience with other medical centers.