Undergraduate Programs

1. Cultivate modern integrated Chinese and Western medical talents with both professional skills and moral integrity, guided by the spirit of “compassion, joy, and equanimity”.

2. In addition to emphasizing the basics and clinical teaching of Traditional Chinese Medicine, the course also incorporates modern medical education, employing a problem-oriented approach to strengthen evidence-based medicine training, aiming to achieve clinical diagnosis and treatment with Traditional Chinese Medicine as the core and Western medicine as a supplement.

3. Provide comprehensive Tzu Chi humanities and service education courses, emphasizing humanities, arts and medical ethics, and actively cultivate outstanding physicians with self-learning abilities.

4. To study traditional Chinese medicine theories and treatment models using modern scientific methods, and to conduct clinical medicine and research.

5. By combining clinical medical departments such as the Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine at Tzu Chi Hospital with related institutes, we will establish an interdisciplinary research team to scientifically evaluate the clinical efficacy of acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine in treating various acute and chronic diseases, thereby promoting the standardization and modernization of TCM syndrome diagnosis and treatment.

6. In line with the global development of Tzu Chi’s mission, the internationalization of charitable missions and Tzu Chi’s international medical association, and Tzu Chi’s media and public communication resources, we can promote traditional Chinese medicine to the world through these channels and care for all mankind.