Medical education reform in Taiwan has taken big steps since 2002 not only to meet the needs of society, but also to reassert the basic humanitarian values in medical practices. Medicine in Taiwan has been long regarded as a decent and highly-respected career; however, young Taiwanese physicians are blamed for gradually losing their devotion to the profession due to the increasing complexity of biomedical technology, marketization of medical care, and domination by health care management that often overturns professional decisions for cost concerns. In 2002, Taiwan's medical schools began to initiate curricular reform which was impelled by the Taiwan Medical Accreditation Council (TMAC) of National Health Research Institute (NHRI). This reform echoed the global concerns 'of what skills, what attitudes, and what values should medical student achieve before receiving the medical degree' (Wear 2000).
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