Table 2.
The numbers (proportions) of the three different levels of qualified teaching hospitals (including their branches) with medical radiation interns in their dental radiology departments, and the numbers (proportions) of their full-time medical radiation technologists working for dental radiology in the three different levels of qualified teaching hospitals according to the hospital location in Taiwan in 2022.
| Hospital level | Hospital location (region of Taiwan) |
Overall | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern | Central | Southern | Eastern | ||
| Hospitals | |||||
| Medical center | 9 (22.5%) | 4 (10%) | 5 (12.5%) | 0 | 18 (45%) |
| Regional hospital | 8 (20%) | 5 (12.5%) | 6 (15%) | 1 (2.5%) | 20 (50%) |
| District hospitala | 2 (5%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (5%) |
| Overall | 19 (47.5%) | 9 (22.5%) | 11 (27.5%) | 1 (2.5%) | 40 (100%) |
| Medical radiation technologists | |||||
| Medical center | 25 (33.78%) | 13 (17.57%) | 11 (14.86%) | 0 | 49 (66.22%) |
| Regional hospital | 12 (16.22%) | 7 (9.46%) | 4 (5.41%) | 0 | 23 (31.08%) |
| District hospitala | 2 (2.70%) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (2.70%) |
| Overall | 39 (52.70%) | 20 (27.03%) | 15 (20.27%) | 0 | 74 (100%) |
a
These 2 district hospitals belonged to a branch of a medical center and a branch of a regional hospital, respectively.