How to become a Traditional Medicine Technician

Official title: Traditional Medicine Technicians

Treats physical and mental illness using herbal medicine and traditional healing methods.

Main tasks

• Treat bruises, sprains, fractures and dislocations using hand massage along meridians, traditional tuina or medicated plasters
• Use traditional herbal medicine as a complementary treatment
• Refer patients to other health workers or share information with them so care continues

Ways in

• Technical college: Technical and vocational college programme. Universities of science and technology and junior colleges run departments in related fields: traditional and complementary medicine (0917). Departments in academic year 114 (2025-26): five-year junior college (五專) 1, two-year junior college (二專) 1. Fields matched to the occupation by Peernovo.; Technician certificate: Traditional bone-setting massage. National technician skill test (技術士技能檢定) run by the Workforce Development Agency, trade 226 民俗調理業傳統整復推拿. Tested at a single level (單一級). Peernovo links this trade to the occupation.

Pay · Outlook · AI and this job

• Demand for Health and care jobs is projected at about 774,000 in 2024 and about 876,000 in 2030. (+13.2%)
• Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

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Questions people ask

How do I become a Traditional Medicine Technician?

Ways in include: Technical and vocational college programme; Technician certificate: Traditional bone-setting massage.

Is a Traditional Medicine Technician a growing career in Taiwan?

Demand for this job family is projected to change 13.2% from 2024 to 2030 (National Development Council).

Will AI change the work of a Traditional Medicine Technician?

Generative AI can do relatively little of this work, by the ILO's global estimate.

Sources

• National Development Council: Final manpower demand projections by occupation (職業別最終人力需求推估) (2025 to 2030 (base 2024), 13 job families), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
• International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026

Updated 4 October 2026