Enforcement Rules of the Physicians Act Article 2

Departments/divisions of medicine, Chinese medicine, and dentistry at foreign universities or independent colleges complying with the Ministry of Education recognition rules (collectively, “medical programs”), as described in Articles 2 through 4 of the Act, shall refer to foreign academic institutions with medical programs that are equivalent to domestic medical programs at the same educational level in terms of admissions eligibility, graduation institutions, prescribed period of study, curriculum, and official recognition by local government’s educational authority or a professional accreditation entity endorsed by the authority in accordance with Article 12 of the Regulations Governing the Assessment and Recognition of Foreign Academic Records by Institutions of Higher Education and in reference to Articles 4 and 9 of the same Regulations.The principles and methods for recognizing foreign medical programs, as described in the preceding paragraph, including the determination of their equivalence to domestic programs of the same educational level and the conditions for non-recognition, shall be governed by Articles 10 through 13 herein.The provisions of the preceding paragraph shall apply to students who commenced their studies in a foreign medical program on or after January 1, 2017.