| 英文摘要 |
Global health is a multidisciplinary field of study aiming to promote health equity and ultimately, health for all, and the importance of primary healthcare in achieving the goal of “health for all” has been well recognized since the Declaration of Alma Ata. Embracing primary healthcare as the core value of family medicine and providing comprehensive, continuous, integrated, community-oriented and team-based care, new-generation family medicine physicians thrive in the field of global health. In merely a century, Taiwan has graduated from an aid recipient to an active contributor and collaborator in global health. A team from National Taiwan University College of Medicine and NTU Hospital has implemented since 2013 a community health promotion program striving to facilitate and achieve community empowerment in Ladakh, India. Through participating in the program, the author has realized the values of global health exposure in the training of family medicine, notably enhanced communication skills and cross-cultural sensitivities, both of which are crucial in caring vulnerable and underprivileged populations and therefore of equally significant global and local relevance. No matter as project managers, communicators, and collaborators, family medicine physicians now have great leadership potential in the field of global health, Exposure to and participation in global health can be expected to re-vitalize family medicine and attract a new generation of family medicine residents. |
