What is the salary of a physician in Taiwan?

Question

My cousin's thinking about going into the medical field after graduating from high school, and she's wondering what the prospects are for Taiwanese doctors in general. She has been completely born and bred and educated in Taiwan, and probably won't do any studying abroad. She'll most likely go to university in Taiwan. What is the average salary for a med student just out of Taiwanese med school who wants to work in Taiwan? Thanks!

Answer 1

Well! I could give it to you.

This is the yahoo news from 2005.

Due to the universal health plan, many of the doctors cannot survive with current salar :)

和高薪畫上等號的醫師走上街頭，難道醫師真的生存不下去了嗎？

北市聯合醫院剛公布主治醫師平均月薪廿五萬元，但昨天有醫師抱怨，

如果給付打折，自己就是老闆的診所開業醫，
確實會活不下去。

(Yes. Sadly that is true.)

前衛生署副署長楊志良研究醫師收入，結論是醫師收入大約

是國民平均所得六至八倍，

而經濟合作發展組織國家（ＯＥＣＤ）醫師所得約是受薪階級的

二至三倍，
美國是六倍。不過，醫師專業訓練時間長、養成不易，工作責

任和壓力都大，
報酬多是應該的，只是高到多少算合理。

Normally, physicians salary is about six to eight times of others. But Med school costs a lot :)

若以其他專業來比較，剛出道的律師月薪卻只有五萬元左右；

升上大學教授後月薪約十二萬元；醫師接受醫學院教育七年，

畢業後擔任住院醫師的薪水就有七、八萬元，

多則十萬元以上，更別說升上主治醫師，私人醫院薪水更達

二、三十萬元。

Graduate med school students salary is about 80,000 NT per month. The max is 100,000 NT per month.

北市聯合醫院的資料，主治醫師去年平均年收入近三百萬元，

看不出受到健保總額預算制度影響。

不過，醫界坦承，健保實施後，民眾都往區域醫院、醫學中心就診，
對基層診所與地區醫院的醫師收入影響較大。

Average attending physician is about 300,000 NT annually. (That is about what my clients make per year.)

昨天遊行現場，有一張「醫師已不是金飯碗」的傳單，台南市開業醫師王正坤說明，

每月看診九百人次的診所診療費、藥費、掛號費收入約四十萬

元，但扣掉藥師、護士等人事費用及房租、

水電，「淨利」只有八萬多元。

But for the self-employed doctor, they may not survive. Their netprofit is 80,000 NT.