History
In September 1959, Executive Yuan, R.O.C. approved the then VGH as one of the teaching hospitals of National Defense Medical Center (NDMC). Ministry of National Defense enacted regulations to steer mutual academic support between NDMC and VGH as well as the transfer of military doctors to VGH. NDMC not only entrusted the foundation of VGH to its Dean, also the first Superintendent of VGH, General Loo, Chih-the, but recruited all specialists in NDMC to serve as the major task force for establishment of VGH. NDMC at the same time appointed them as adjunct department chiefs or seed instructors in VGH, and relocated resources of medical education and research to VGH to form a solid union between both sides, as a beginning to pave the way for decades of enduring partnerships from then on.

In July 1975, National Yang-Ming College of Medicine was officially founded, and signed in December 1977 a Mutual Collaboration Agreement with VGH under the approval of Ministry of Education to stipulate VGH as its teaching hospital, which remained unchanged even when it was upgraded as National Yang-Ming University (NYMU) in 1994. Taipei VGH has become its primary teaching hospital to place students for internship training. Not a few of our physicians are full-time faculties in the university actively committed to medical education. Some of them have initiated the first PBL program in the medical schools of Taiwan.

Innovation and Development
In 1997, Taipei VGH established Educational Reform Taskforce under its Medical Education Committee to assist National Yang-Ming University in developing problem-based learning (PBL) and medical humanistic education programs in School of Medicine. Part of medical education fund was also allocated to sponsor faculties’ projects for educational reform.

In February 2003, the Clinical Sill Resources Center was established as the first of its kind in Taiwan with an abundance of multimedia teaching materials to provide simulation education for medical and nursing students to practice clinical skills before they are exposed to real patients. While patients were no longer guinea pigs, the possibility of malpractice could also be diminished. Several group discussion classrooms were built in specific for PBL teaching and other curricula of National Yang-Ming University.

In 2005, “Medical Education Contribution Award” was designed to commend attending physicians for their lifelong dedication to medical education. Only one winner was selected each year as the “Model of Medical Educators”.

External cooperation
During 1980s, Taipei VGH had established cooperative ties with medical institutes such as National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Chi Mei Medical Center (former Tainan Municipal Feng Chia Hospital), Chang-Hua Hospital, National Yang-Ming University Hospital (formerly I-Lan Municipal Hospital) and Hua-Lien Hospital. In compliance with the national policy that urged medical centers via hospital accreditation to enhance the quality of community-based healthcare, Taipei VGH continued to strengthen the ties with more and more institutes tailored to their diverse needs.  Until 2016, Taipei VGH has established such cooperative relationship with more than 70 local hospitals to provide their staff the opportunities for on-the-job training, residents joint training, academic exchange, cooperative research, clinical  support and referrals.

The signing of cooperative agreement between Taipei VGH and National Taiwan University Hospital in 1997 made a sensation-of-the-year of medical community. The two leading medical centers in Taiwan, despite in keen competition with each other, undertook a united effort to cooperate in medical education and research. Starting from 2007, the two hospitals have jointly conducted a variety of research projects and continued to publish their outcomes to date.