A Study on the Influencing Factors of All-Inclusive Package Tours’Formulation of Medical Tourism in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Pi-Yio Liu, 劉碧優
• Other Authors: Tieh-Chun Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/81825563674831239396

碩士 === 朝陽科技大學 === 企業管理系碩士班 === 98 === Abstract Continuing Medical Education (CME) refers to “all kinds of educational activities that can help maintain and enhance physician’s competency during his career life”; CME might directly or indirectly affect physician’s clinical performance and medical results. Before the Physicians Act was amended in 2002, Taiwan has already implemented CME for physicians that hold diplomat certificate for many years; at the time physicians were motivated to complete the education by self-regulation. However, because there were no clear law regulations and all kinds of physician associations were not connected and well-managed, when more and more people in the society asked for maintaining physician’s professional competency and assuring medical quality, the reaction was limited. Until January 2002, Taiwan announced the amendments on the Physicians Act Article VIII-2, enforcing physicians to accept continuing education as a basic condition to renew physician licenses, Taiwan officially became one of the nations that implement enforced continuing medical education. Hence, this research aimed at investigating whether the enforced CME system caused credit calculation problems to remote areas or clinic physicians in remote areas and how physicians feel and think about the CME’s processing time, course contents, actual effects, and host institutions. This research used Critical Incident Technique (CIT) to conduct the classification and analysis of critical incidents. 200 questionnaires were distributed, and with a collection rate of 80.5%, there were 161 effective questionnaires. According to research conclusions, the Physicians Act enforced CME system could easily cause physicians to participate in continuing medical education only for purposes of credit accumulation and license renew. Moreover, the CME provider should try to satisfy physician’s self-study demand by carefully designing the curriculum to avoid CME becoming just a formality. Also, the CME provider (such as local medical association or association for specific specialty) should arrange course contents and subjects, enhance and diversify teaching forces to meet the needs of physicians in areas such as the changes of medical policies and the share of new clinical medical practices, etc… Therefore, medical groups like medical colleges, medical association, committee on medical science education, public health bureau, and other related groups should truly carry out the continuing medical education to enhance CME’s quality and effects.