A questionnaire was designed to investigate graduates' perceptions of their own learning results (knowledge, clinical performance, physician-patient relationship, team work, and an overall evaluation) during the internship, to elucidate their views on internship (with respect to the teaching hospitals, clinical tutors, and the length of internships), and whether or not internships were helpful in raising the level of their clinical abilities. This survey found that in the area of self-perception, over 80% of respondents felt that clinical internships had helped to improve "professional knowledge", "ability to collectmedical histories", "ability to conduct a physical examination", "clinical skills", " clinical diagnostic ability", "team work ability", "professional development", and "to be a good doctor". However, the survey also showed that only about 50% of those surveyed agreed that clinical internshipswere "helpful in passing the national examination", "applying knowledge from basic and clinical sciences to clinical practice", in deciding that "a career in medicine was a correct choice", and that "the benefits of a clinical In addition, in terms of the overall views of graduates on the clinical internship system, this study found that the satisfaction level with the content of the present curriculumat teaching hospitals was only 48.1%, with 15%expressing dissatisfaction. This indicates that there is a great deal of room for improvement in this curriculum. A survey of medical students to determine who they believed were of most assistance in their clinical practice found that the majority were residents (74.8%); the next most helpful were chief residents. Attending physicians received less than ten percent (8.4%), and department or section heads received 0%. This is quite inconsistent with the concept that clinical instruction should come from attending physicians, but it does reflect the current conditions of clinical instruction in Taiwan today, and is worth special attention from medical educators.