Though NTUH has managed to fill its quota of residents in surgery, there has been a marked decline in the number of applicants for such posts, from 40-plus three years ago to 30-plus two years ago and only twenty-something last year.
雖然台大目前不缺外科住院醫師，但從近三年來申請人數由四十幾、三十幾遞減到二十幾位，可以看出外科醫師人數每下愈況的情形。