Pioneers of Medicine and Medical Breakthroughs in Taiwan

10 Videos

• 2-1: Dialogue before you start
• 2-1-1: Introduction
• 2-1-2: Route of transmission/prevention
• 2-1-3: The detection and measurement of HBV infection
• 2-1-4: Natural history of HBV infection
• 2-1-5: Management of chronic hepatitis B
• 2-1-6: When to START antiviral therapy?
• 2-1-7: The efficacy of long-term therapy
• 2-1-8: Prophylactic antiviral therapy
• 2-1-9: How to cure hepatitis B?

1 Assignment

• W2-1 Quiz

1 Readings

• Extended Reading

4 Videos

• 2-2: Dialogue before you start
• 2-2-1: Introduction
• 2-2-2: Hepatitis B Vaccine Program in Taiwan
• 2-2-3: Problems that remain to be solved for the global control of hepatitis B and related diseases

1 Assignment

• W2-2 Quiz

15 Videos

• 3: Dialogue before you start
• 3-1: Introduction
• 3-2: Adverse influences of renal failure
• 3-3: Progression and staging of chronic kidney disease
• 3-4: The landscape of renal disease in Taiwan
• 3-5: What happens to the kidney in the elderly?
• 3-6: Risk factors for end-stage renal disease in Taiwan
• 3-7: The unprecedented high rate of end-stage renal disease in Taiwan
• 3-8: Renal supportive care and reimbursement schemes in Taiwan
• 3-9: Frailty
• 3-10: Frail renal phenotype
• 3-11: Frailty as a criterion to screen for and recognize those with need of renal hospice
• 3-12: Caring for renal patients at terminal status
• 3-13: Renal supportive care in Taiwan
• 3-14: Conclusion

1 Assignment

• W3 Quiz

1 Readings

• Extended Reading

15 Videos

• 4: Dialogue before you start
• 4-1: Part one: Introduction
• 4-2: End-stage renal disease
• 4-3: End-stage renal disease in Taiwan
• 4-4: Treatment for end-stage renal disease
• 4-5: Hemodialysis
• 4-6: Peritoneal dialysis
• 4-7: Conundrum for end-stage renal disease care
• 4-8: Part two: Outcomes of living-related kidney transplantation
• 4-9: Benefits of living-related kidney transplantation
• 4-10: Risks of living-related kidney transplantation
• 4-11: History of renal transplantation
• 4-12: Renal transplantation techniques
• 4-13: The role of immunosuppressive drugs
• 4-14: Renal transplantation in National Taiwan University Hospital

1 Assignment

• W4 Quiz

1 Readings

• Extended Reading

7 Videos

• 5: Dialogue before you start
• 5-1: Introduction
• 5-2: How does ECMO work?
• 5-3: When and why to use ECMO?
• 5-4: Application of ECMO: cardiac arrest and pulmonary embolism
• 5-5: Application of ECMO: H1N1 and COVID-19
• 5-6: ECPR: Extracorporeal cardiopulmonary resuscitation

1 Assignment

• W5 Quiz

1 Videos

• Final conclusion

1 Peer Review

• Final Peer Review