Project Name：2018 Healthcare Personnel Training Program

Project status：Completed projects

Cooperating Country：Asia-Pacific, Central America, Kiribati, Palau, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua

Project Description：

The program provides medical personnel from partner countries with one to three months of on-the-job training, enhancing their knowledge and experience, and thereby improving the quality of health care in partner countries.

Implementation Start Date：2018-01-01

Implementation End Date：2018-12-31

Source of Funding：TaiwanICDF and training institutions (both responsible for lecturer and accommodation expenses during the training period; however, training institutions’ expenses are not included in the project “approval amount.”)

Implementation Arrangement：Trainees will be distributed to the allied hospitals and institutions to get clinical or on-site training, exchange professional skills and experience culture differences.

Current Progress：At the end of December 2018, 23 trainees from 10 countries trained in 10 cooperating training institutions.

Project Performance：The program provides effective training and improves trainees’ health care-related abilities.

Project Contact：Michelle Chiu

Phone：886-2-28732323 ext.307

E-mail：t.h.chiu@icdf.org.tw

Cooperating Stakeholders：Taipei Veterans General Hospital,Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Veterans General Hospital, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Shin Kong Wu Ho-Su Memorial Hospital, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical University Chung-Ho Memorial Hospital, National Taiwan University Hospital, Tri-Service General Hospital