Over the years, the major works of the Institute of Aerospace Medicine, which operates in coordination with air duty troops of the army, navy and air force and other aerospace-related institutions, are to provide a higher class of aeromedicine consultation, a reeducation course for aviation physiology, a discipline for flight surgeons and flight nurses, a medical inspection appraisal of air duty and a development of professional research. With the aim of meeting the increasing needs of aerospace industry development and requirement of the occupation safety, the Institute of Aerospace Medicine was founded in 1997 to bring up a teaching staff who could specialize in aerospace medicine related affairs and studies. Therefore, the teaching goal of the Institute is to integrate aerospace medicine affairs and research capacities. The recruited students are educated with aerospace medicine science and brought up with a powerful research capability to lead the mainstream of aerospace medicine. The developing characteristics of our institute are summarized into several points, included as follows:

A）Basic medical researches and educations in the field of related aerospace medicine:

In basic research, we emphasize the effects of high altitude and special flight environments on physiological  functions. These factors, including the changes in barometric pressure, hypoxia, gravity, orientation in space, adaptation of temperature, and jet-lagged fatigue, are summarized as followed:

   (a)    Investigating the effects and mechanisms of high altitude, low barometric pressure

   (b)   and hypoxic conditions on physical functions.

         Studied the physical effects under high gravity conditions at rapid flight speeds.

   (c) Sought the influence of spatial disorientation on pilot behaviors.

These experimental results can be applied not only in improving aeromedical practice, service and research  levels, but also in promoting          the development of associated sciences, such as highlands medicine and clinic medicines (e.g. motion sickness and decompression            

 syndrome)

 B）The major research topics on aeromedical practice

Flight surgeons and nurses will be educated with applied aeromedicine, prophylactic medicine, and occupational medicine.They will become more general and professional in these related sciences. For example, the investigation of human adaptation in special aerospace environments involved; industrial occupational safety, cabin life-maintenance system, gravity-tolerance, illusion and disorientation, working pressure, emergent fleeing, seeking to survive in the wilderness, professional aeromedical consultations on prophylactic medicine, aeromedical disposition, waiver, aircrew medical treatment, healthy protective epidemology, occupational environmental hygiene of the aviation industry, and mishap investigation.

C）Integration of the operational knowledge on civilian and military navigation. When provided with the recognition of aeromedical properties of civilian and military navigation, scholars should develop individual medical matters on civilian and military navigation, such as army practice medicine and medical care of family of mishaps. Furthermore, we supply special considerations for both civilian and military aviator selection to inspire more inextricable research conception on prophylactic health care, education, training, investigation of mishap, and cabin designing.

D）Fostering aeromedical experts for meeting the needs of related industries The students graduating from our institute will possess professional capability in aeromedical research. Therefore, they are able to improve the service quality of domestic aeromedicine, and provide professional medical consultation for the development of aviation science, including ergonomics and physical effects caused by particular environments. Thus, these pupils are qualified to meet the high standards of flight safety in modern aviation science.
 

E) Promotion and encouragement scholar communication and cooperation among different research institutions

  The development of aviation medicine is still in the very beginning step in Taiwan. No other associated research institution or educated courses were found in colleges. By the moving of our institute, domestic scholar systems will be integrated and collaborated with each other. Then, the unity aviation medicine can reach to a higher standard.