There was not one piece of lab equipment or even a textbook to be seen, yet classes began as scheduled. At that time there were only two medical schools in all of Taiwan, that at National Taiwan University and the relatively newly established National Defense Medical Center.
此外，高醫與美國阿肯色大學醫學科學中心亦從事學術交流，互派醫生或教授講學，高醫亦派員前往考察和進修。圖書館裡約一千三百種的醫學期刊，是目前國內圖書館中最多的；「國際百科」的設立，使師生能透過電腦連線系統，在短時間內得到國際的新資訊。