The purpose of the Chinese Taipei Association of Family Medicine is to promote family medicine research and development, to develop a family medicine specialist system in Taiwan, to strengthen contact and exchange with international family medicine organizations, and to raise primary medical care and family medicine standards in Taiwan.
Jan. 1986: Publication of the "Primary Medical Care & Family Medicine" journal.
Mar. 1, 1986: The Association's inaugural convention is held in the Li Hsueh building at the Kaohsiung Medical College.
Feb. 10, 1987: Since this date the Association has conducted 25 continuing medical education programs in conjunction with the Department of Family Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital.
1987: The first agent asked by Government to implement family medicine specialty certification examination and residency training program accreditation.
May 2, 1988: The Association becomes a group member of the World Organization of Family Doctors (WONCA).
1988: -present Association receives the "National Outstanding Social Organization" award from the Ministry of the Interior six times.
Nov. 1-7, 1989: President Wei-Chuan Hsieh with more than 40 members of the Association attend the "First International Conference on Primary Health Care" in Beijing, China. The delegation presents more than ten research papers and reports at the conference. This is the first time a Taiwanese group is officially approved to attend an international conference in the PRC.
July 1990: Since this date the Association has jointly published the bimonthly "Formosan Journal of Medicine" continuing education column together with the Formosan Medical Association.
Mar. 13, 1991: A press conference is held in celebrating Association's fifth anniversary and to reintroduce the family medicine specialist system.
Mar. 1991: Publication of the Chinese Journal of Family Medicine.
Dec. 27 1991: The Association office is moved to its present and permanent address.
May 27, 1994: The "International Conference on Primary Health Care" is held in the Chieh Shou Hall of Veterans General Hospital in Taipei. The main topic is "Integration of Preventive Services into Primary Health Care". Attendees include experts from Britain, Canada, Japan, the United States, and Taiwan. Conclusions and suggestions are submitted to the Department of health, Executive Yuan.
June 15, 1994: The "R.O.C. Family Medicine Association Bulletin" is published to provide updated information on Association activities to its members.
July 1994: The Chinese name of the Association's publication "Primary Medical Care & Family Medicine" is changed.
July 1996: The first Taiwanese edition family medicine Textbook, "Family Medicine", is published.
Mar. 6-10, 1999: The Association holds the WONCA Asia-Pacific Regional Conference. The conference topic is "Health for All by the Year 2000: Family Medicine - Meeting Old Challenges."
June 2000: 2nd edition of “family Medicine” published.
Sep. 2000: Our association officially changed its name to: “Chinese Taipei Association of Family Medicine”.
Apr. 2002: Compilation of the “Sheet of Family Medicine”, which is the best tool for the family doctors in the teaching of Public Health Care to the population
July 2002: Publication of the “Manual of Clinical Family Medicine”, which is a recollection of local experts and scholars experiences in analyzing the most common diseases found in clinical practice. It is one of the best reference manuals gathering the efforts and experiences of most family doctors to diagnose the most common diseases found in clinical practice.
Sep. 12-15, 2002: The representatives of the Macau Medicine General Practitioners Association called on Professor Yin-Hwa Hsieh, Chin-Yu Chen and representatives from other relevant institutions to highlight the importance of family medicine academic exchange between the Chinese-Macau communities.
March 2003: Photography family doctor guidance short film, to populace force concrete guidance family doctor system.
January 2004: “Prevention Health Care –physical examination” was published.
July 30-31, 2005: The Association held the Four Parties Joint Meeting of Family Medicine/ General Practice Conference. There were many representatives came from Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing to attend this conference. The representatives discussed the development of Family Medicine between Hong Kong-Macau-Beijing-Taiwan, family doctor and preventing and controlling emerging disease, the system of family medicine and the health management information system, share the experience of Taiwan of the community medical service groups.
June 2006: 3rd edition of “Family Medicine” and 2nd edition of “Clinical Handbook of Family Physician」were published.
June 2008: “Preventive Medicine” were published.
July 12-13, 2008: The Association held the Four Parties Conference on Family Medicine. There were 110 representatives came from Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing to attend this conference. The representatives discussed the development of Family Medicine between Hong Kong-Macau-Beijing-Taiwan, the experience of community primary care, the prevention and controlling plans on chronic disease.
To conduct certification examination & initial screening for re-certification of Taiwanese family medicine specialist on behalf of the Department of Health, Executive Yuan.
To accredit family medicine specialist education and residency training programs on behalf of the Department of Health, Executive Yuan.
To implement research projects on behalf of the Department of Health, Executive Yuan.
To assist the establishment of family medicine departments at teaching hospitals in accordance to family medicine training guidelines.
To promote a family physician specialist system and study on issues of National Health Insurance policy.
To conduct international cooperation & exchange programs to raise local primary care quailty.
