殖民醫學 Colonial medicine
In 1895, Taiwan was ceded to Japan after the Sino-Japanese War andbegan a 50-year period of Japanese colonisation. During this time, Japan introduced Western medicine and established a modern medical education system, which had a profound effect on Taiwan's medical system. As Japan was influenced by Western medicine, such as the Netherlands and Germany, and established a modern medical education system after Meiji Restoration. The public medical system was introduced by the Japanese colonial government in 1895 to provide basic medical services, especially in remote and rural areas of Taiwan.
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Japanese medical education in Taiwan began in 1897, when Hidetaka Yamaguchi山口秀高(1866-1916), director of the Taipei Hospital, founded the "Institute for the Training of Taiwanese Physicians", which recruited graduates of the Mandarin School and began teaching in temporary rented houses near the hospital. In 1899, the Taiwan Governor's Office Medical School was established and opened in Taipei Park. A large number of professional doctors with modern medical knowledge were trained, laying the foundation for Taiwan's modern medical system. Second, the implementation of the public health movement greatly improved Taiwan's health conditions and reduced the incidence and mortality rates of infectious diseases. It was not until the 1920s that the quality and quantity of Western physicians and medical resources in Taiwan reached a relatively stable stage.
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After the Meiji Restoration, Japan sent large numbers of students to Europe, most of whom went to Germany to study the legal system, medicine and the military, so many of Japan's systems and professional skills were inherited from Germany. In the case of medicine, many Taiwanese students came to Japan to study medicine during the Meiji period. These Taiwanese students not only needed to know Japanese and Latin, but also to be able to read German, and many medical textbooks at that time were written directly in German.