IRCAD-Taiwan is the largest advanced laparoscopy training center in Asia.
IRCAD-Taiwan/AITS – Asian Institute of TeleSurgery is the first IRCAD to open outside of France, grand opened in 2008 with the most complete & sophisticated equipment in Chang Bing Show Chwan Health Park, Lugang. Costing nearly 10 million USD, the Taiwan Institute is a four-story building covering 5,000 square meters, equipped with a ring design of twenty surgical training sets & animal laboratory.
Under the leadership of President Min-Ho Huang, IRCAD-Taiwan seeks to provide an excellent & diversified learning platform to benefit & foster surgeons, which can further enhance the medical standards in minimally invasive surgery in the Asia-Pacific region. Since IRCAD-Taiwan was opened, over 8,000 students from over 60 countries have been trained, bringing world-leading experts together for cross-disciplinary discussions, opening a new door to the Asia-Pacific region.
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We would like to draw your attention that the « Vaccine Pass » is now mandatory in France since end of January 2022 and replaces the former « Health Pass » to access places that are open to the public, such as cinemas, museums, cafés and restaurants, hotels as well as the IRCAD Institute which welcomes participants in the framework of its courses and seminars. Thus, a PCR test without vaccination is no longer sufficient to take part in our courses.
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