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We expect that this project can be shared with
more people and further ask them
to think about their attitudes and values
toward the medical profession. Moreover,
this project will hopefully work with
different professions for more resources, and thus
fighting for the well-being
of the humans, community, and even the whole world.
 Our Category: Local Corporate Organization
Our community
The school, located in the old downtown of
Taichung City which borders the Central, North, and West Districts, is an old
and famous elementary school. For 85 years, numerous prominent students have
graduated from this school. Mr. Chou Ju-Chuan, who set up Chung Shan Medical
University and its hospital in South District, also graduated from the
elementary school. In 1955, as a dentist, Mr. Chou decided to train more
dentists for his hometown Taichung. Therefore, he had kept asking people for
funding and support for 5 years. Finally, he set up “Chung Shan Dentist College”
in 1960. Now, there are 6 colleges, 21 departments, and 17 graduate programs in
Chung Shan Medical University with nearly 30,000 graduates. The University’s dentist
clinic becomes the medical center of Daqing Branch, Chung Shing Branch, and Wen
Shin Branch (College of Oral Medicine Center) with 7 medical units and 4
developmental centers. These institutions are equipped with advanced facilities
and medical services. Thus, they become one of the three major medical centers
in Taichung City.
Abstract of Project
We are students from the advanced class. In the
course Biological Technology, our teacher introduced Taichung City’s medical
environment and medical centers. When talking about cancer and genetic issues,
our teacher mentioned Mr. Chou Ju-Chuan’s morality and dedications to the
medical profession, and this really impressed us. Therefore, we would like to visit
Chung Shan Medical University because it focuses on humanistic education and
prioritizes the patients’ interest. Then, we decided to learn the University’s hospital
through data collection, visiting, interviews, and questionnaires. Our question
is what impact and contribution the integration of medical systems will have
for the community and its residents. In the course of research, we even held
panel discussions and seminars with our teacher for in-depth thinking. We
expect that this project can be shared with more people and further ask them to
think about their attitudes, values, and vision toward the medical profession.
Our Working Environment with Internet
A. Hardware
Facilities:
We will use school Internet to work. There
are 6 computers and 5 laptops in Counseling Center. There are even 10
computers in each advanced classroom for students’ learning and research
work. Each computer can access the Internet and makes a connection to
the Taichung Educational Web
Center with optical fibers. The laptops will use Wifi to work.
B. Software
Facilities:
The software we use is the materials from the
IT course, including Namo WebEditor 2006, Namo Flash Creator, CyberLink
Power Director, PowerPoint 2010, and even iSpring Free. The
software also includes Microsoft Word 2010 and Excel.
What problems have we met and solved?
A. The Expertise Needed for the Project
Medical studies and technology involve difficult
expertise, so we had to spend much time understanding the medical terms,
facilities, and equipment so that we could move onto the following research activities,
which is a big challenge for the 5th graders at elementary school.
Certainly, this big challenge was often an obstacle for this project. Hence, we
used many learning activities to fill up our knowledge gap if necessary. For
us, this project seemed like an impossible mission.
B. Lack of Efficiency in IT Work
Although
it was practical to use all the software we learned in IT class, we couldn’t
increase its efficiency. We’re slow typewriters even though we’re familiar with
using computers; we spend a day processing a picture despite our creativity for
the photos. Fortunately, all the classmates almost spare their time for our
project. We even worked together with everyone’s talents; for example, Min-Jun
is good at picture software, and then he will focus on film-editing and
perfection; Chao-shin and Jia-chi are fast typewriters and they took charge of
paperwork. Thus, technical mastery, professional cooperation, and perseverance
are the key to solving the problems.
C. Lack of Careful Judgment and Organization
The values, ethics, system, law, and even life
issues from medical studies all require high-level and profound thinking for
research. Although the students from advanced class have a better grasp of
emotional and critical thinking, they are still innocent kids. Lack of maturity
influences their judgment on social values, and it is difficulty to make a
conclusion from the activities. Hence, we increase the
interaction by story-telling such as film seminars, interviews with surgeons,
and even mental talk with cancer patients. Then, these real cases helped the
students discuss and express their opinions and feelings in a practical way.
D. The Restriction on Medical Ethics, Privacy, and Safety
There
are many taboos of visiting a medical institution, and the students had to pay attention
to the community patients’ privacy protection. For safety, the elementary
school students are not allowed to access some places in a medical institution.
Therefore, there are many restrictions on photo-taking and data collection, and
the subjects were not enough for our research. In that
way, all the data (including videos) we acquired must be authorized by the
hospital for use on the webpages. Some interviewees’ faces should be mosaicked,
and the questionnaires should use pseudonyms or anonymity for the subjects’
names.
E. The Restriction of Cross-District Systems on Holiday
Activities
There are over two-thirds cross-district students at our school.
Urban students like us have so many talent classes that we have little time
doing the medical services for the community on holidays or after school, and
students couldn’t finish the take-home exercises. In
that case, we used morning self-study time, lunch break, Wednesday afternoons,
and 5 sessions from advanced class to make up for the loss of research time.
The students were self-disciplined and showed up every time.
Reflection
A
hospital can use business management strategies to make itself more efficient
and profitable, and it can develop advanced equipment to treat any diseases.
However, if the medical staff forgets to give respect and concern to the
patients, then they just cure their health but not their mentality. Therefore,
the medical staff should always keep a promise in mind: Regard the patients as
their own relatives. Likewise, the community residents shouldn’t fail the
medical staff’s dedications and never put pressure on them with unreasonable
requests.
We’re very lucky to learn something and grow up
more from this project. Although some of us felt that doctor’s work is too
painstaking, they didn’t change their mind but further make sure of a doctor’s
importance and influence on the society and human life. As Mr. Chou Ju-Chuan
said, a doctor should be obliged to treat patients’ health and mind.
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