Unlike the other colleges located in Kungkuan, Taipei's student quarter, the National Defense Medical Center seems to maintain a certain aloofness from the bustle around it. In fact, the students there call themselves "hermits in the city."
校門前站著憲兵管制出入，門口看不到橫衝直撞的機車、鐵馬和學生，路過的老百姓不免興起「侯門深似海」之感；而國防醫學院的學生卻自封這是「大隱隱於市」。