NTU Medical School's Chinshan remote education project has been instituted because its fifth-year students have a course called "Family and Community Medicine" in which they undertake to get a first-hand acquaintance with the actual problems of primary-level medical care, so that in the future they might become the core of community health for the citizens. The students have to go to live near the Chinshan Community Medicine Training Center for around two weeks.
台大醫學院的金山遠距教學計畫就是因為該校醫學系五年級的學生，有一門叫「家庭醫學與社區醫學」的課，為了實地瞭解基層醫療的問題，以便將來扮演好社區民眾健康的靈魂人物，學生必須到金山社區醫學訓練中心住上十幾天。