Source: Jie Jhang, Economic Daily News, September 1, 2014
 

Different from ordinary medical tourists, the visiting group to Tainan’s E-Champ dermatology clinic was formed by dermatologists from famous universities in Mainland China. Head of Tainan Medical Association Cheng-Kun Wang has brought Tainan’s medical tourism further up, turning the City into an international training center of aesthetic medical specialists, and sharing aesthetic medical technology and knowledge.
 

International medical services are usually initiated by patients who look for doctors and treatments from another country; members of the tour group are mostly patients. However, this visiting group was formed by doctors. Step by step, Dr. Cheng-Kun Wang compiled excellent aesthetic medical knowledge and technologies into professional training courses, attracting international dermatologists to visit Taiwan and learn advanced strategies of running aesthetic medicine business and exchange views on the professional expertise.
 

E-Champ dermatology clinic launched its operational headquarters this year in an area covering 550 Ping (19566 sq. ft.) of land, and was accredited with Aesthetic Medicine Quality Certification (AMQC) by the Taiwan Joint Commission on Hospital Accreditation (TJCHA), becoming a benchmark medical institution in Taiwan. The visiting Mainland group was formed by thirty chief physicians from Tier-3 Class-A hospitals in China, including Huashan Hospital of Fudan University, Ruijin Hospital of Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University, Tianjin Medical University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Xinjiang Medical University, Traditional Chinese Medical Hospital of Shaanxi Province, and the Dermatology Department of People's Hospital of  Shenyang City, with the intention of developing cross-strait aesthetic medical tourism and medical exchanges.
 

During the medical conference, Dr. Cheng-Kun Wang gave a lecture on ‘hyaluronic acid injection for wrinkle smoothing’ and ‘Ultra V Lifting’ technologies; Dr. Ken Tak-Wah Wong, Director of the Dermatology Department of National Cheng Kung University Hospital, lectured on ‘Photodynamic therapy in Taiwan: the present and the future’.
 

The physicians from Mainland China also discussed on issues about ‘the education and training of aesthetic medicine’ and ‘aesthetic medicine quality accreditation in Taiwan’. In E-Champ dermatology clinic, each chief physician must complete the reading of six English aesthetic medicine textbooks literally in one and a half years.
 

Head of the nursing department must also lead all nurses to spend six months to finish reading a Chinese aesthetic medicine book literally, in order to enhance their professional knowledge. The accreditation of aesthetic medicine quality in Taiwan comes with entry requirements that general specialists must fulfill 100 hours of training points every year, or must have qualifications as a medical specialist, and so on, resulting in the hesitation and waiting of most aesthetic medical clinics.
 

Dr. Wang, Head of Tainan Medical Association, explained the techniques of laser operation, Botox injection, hyaluronic acid injection, Ultra V Lift, and the prevention of post-operative side effects such as wry mouth and oblique eyes, demonstrating to doctors from Mainland China that the development of aesthetic medical technologies in Taiwan is as good as in South Korea.
 

He suggested that medical practitioners should honestly inform the consumers beforehand of various ‘effects’, ‘side effects’, ‘avoidable medical injuries’, ‘inevitable medical injuries’ and ‘medical uncertainties’ of aesthetic medicine. Only after the consumers are fully informed and consent to receiving the treatment should aesthetic medical procedure be performed. Apart from beauty, E-Champ’s customers also receive valuable medical knowledge from healthcare education given by its medical staff.
 

After the meeting, Dr. Wang, who is also Chairman of the Tainan Tourism Alliance and Chairman of the National Cheng Kung University EMBA Alumni Association, suggested to these Mainland doctors to take a tour of Tainan and Cheng Kung University, as Tainan is a well-known tourist attraction famous for its beautiful landscape, culture, and fine food; whereas Cheng Kung University is among the world’s top 500 universities, with extended campus and link to the Tainan railway station, convenient to enjoy the culture, arts and science all around the City.