These days, when Yeh Chin-chuan teaches medicine at Tzu Chi University, he tells future doctors that if they end up practicing medicine just to make money, monotonously going around in circles between a hospital, patients, and family, they will have wasted their lives. His advice to future young medical students is, "Don't follow someone else's path; be the master of your own fate."
現在葉金川在慈濟大學醫學院的課堂上，常告訴講台下的未來醫生們，如果行醫後的生活只是拚命賺錢，在醫院、病人、家庭之間打轉，除了單調，也不是一種很好的生活方式，他給年輕醫學生的建議是：「不要跟著別人的路走，要作自己的主人」。