Overview
Department of Otolaryngology track within NTUH's hospital-wide programme for foreign medical staff. NTUH reports that this department received foreign medical personnel in 2025; individual placement still requires a preceptor and institutional approval.
The programme
- Focus
- Otolaryngology
- Training type
- Department track / clinical training or observership
- Duration
- Observership up to 1 year; clinical-training duration agreed with the preceptor
- Start
- Rolling, subject to department and Ministry approval
- Positions
- Not stated on official page
- Accreditation
- Not stated on official page
- Department
- Department of Otolaryngology
Eligibility and visa
- Eligibility
- Foreign medical graduates; clinical-training applicants must have completed at least the first year of residency. Degree, licence, recommendation, CV, health evidence and insurance are required.
- International applicants
- Yes — the programme is specifically for foreign medical staff
- Visa support
- An acceptance letter is issued after approval for use in the visa process
- Licence requirement
- No direct clinical work without a Taiwan physician practice licence; observership is non-hands-on
How to apply
- Deadline
- Submit at least 3 months before clinical training; at least 2 months before an observership
- Application method
- Apply to NTUH with the official form and supporting documents; the hospital and Taiwan Ministry of Health and Welfare review clinical-training applications
Funding
- Funding
- Not stated on official page
Official sources
https://www.ntuh.gov.tw/IMSC/Fpage.action?fid=1456https://www.ntuh.gov.tw/ntuh/Fpage.action?fid=3241&muid=3471https://www.ntuh.gov.tw/ckfinder_file/PMR/files/Guidelines%20of%20Clinical%20Observationship%20for%20Foreign%20Medical%20Doctors%20at%20National%20Taiwan%20University%20Hospital%20_NTUH_.pdf