The Department of Metabolism integrates endocrinology and diabetes researches in epidemiology, genomics and cytology, and clinical services, and collaborates Department of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Department of Endocrinology (Specialist Ward and Intensive Care Unit), Critical Care Center, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Preventive Medicine Center, International Metabolic Medical Center, Molecular and Genome Epidemiology Research Center and Chinese Medicine in clinical services. In terms of the remote medicine for diabetes, the Department provides appropriate diagnosis and treatment for metabolic patients through the primary cares and inter-hospital cooperation, and reaches excellent medical and research achievements. At present, it operates the out-patient clinic for about 7,400 diabetes patients a month. It has reached a number of performance indicators as outstanding as those of excellent diabetes centers, such as the nephropathy screening rate and early nephropathy treatment, the early detection of peripheral vascular diseases and early prevention and treatment of retina, the introduction of routine computer-assisted health education, and so on.

1. After the approval of daytime outpatient clinic, the patient can be screened the peripheral infarction artery in the clinic. The referral treatment rate of peripheral vascular disease reaches 81% as high as the level in Asia. It significantly reduces the problems due to the delay of screening and examination.
2. 90.5% patients in the daytime outpatient clinic can receive the confirmed the blood glucose and lipid indexes. The one-stop health education promotes the effectiveness of diabetes care.
3. For the diabetic patients requiring weight control, the CMUH sets the Obesity Prevention and Exercise Center, the Metabolic Medical Center, the weight-loss surgical clinic and the professional nutritionist consultation clinic to support a wide range of treatments.