1. Research Grant/Fund Opportunity for Nursing in Taiwan

2. Research Grant Sponsors Major –National Science Council (NSC) –National Health Research Institute (NHRI) –Department of Health, –Department of Education –Bureau of Health Promotion Minor –Local city government –Teaching hospitals

3. NSC Grants opportunity for Nursing Biological sector –Innovative topics Science education sector –Pointed topics International collaborative research grant

4. Amount of Grants of NSC 100,000,000USD 200,000,000USD500,000,000USD

5. The NSC grants for nursing in recent 3 years No of applicants No. approved No. TMU approved Total amount 952231011295,173,316 96159781286,290,000 97158651680,698,500 3,200,000USD 2,900,000USD 2,700,000USD

6. 2008 Focuses of research in medical area posted by Science Education Sector of NSC e –medical education research –Clinical decision making: PBL, EBM, Integrated clinical standard learning aid system (S711) –Measurement and evaluation system (S712) Evaluation of clinical medical education –Communication with patient /family.(S721) –Medical ehtics(S722) –Coping strategy for ethical dilemma( S723) –Objective Structured Clinical Examination OSCE(S724) Medical humanmity –Medical humanity education for graduate students and residents(S731) –Promoting medical humanity of teaching staff (S732) –Promoting knowledge of philosophy, logic, aesthetic and liberal art of the medical (S733)

7. 2008 Amount of research grants for health care offered by National Health Bureau Item codeTopic of projectBudget 972-Obs-1 Current status of breast feeding research － the prevalence of breast feeding and the effect of intervention 1,312,000 972-Obs-2 Monitoring the quality of screen test for children mental retardation － The children mental retardation screening rate in the community and the promotion strategy 1,050,000 972-Obs-3 The program of improving the quality of childbirth health management service for the foreign marriage － the utility rate of prelabor check-up and the promotion strategy 1,050,000 972-Obs-4 The establishment of community infant-toddler service network － the effect of special formula for children with rare disease (including congenital malmetabolism) 963,000 972-Pub-1The evaluation of health education media- An example of house-wives related issues 1,000,000 972-Pub-2 The development and evaluation of adult health education model – using health education for adult with less than 9 years education.as the example. 1,000,000 972-Pub-3 The application and evaluation of promotion effectiveness of paper media in promoting health knowledge. 1,000,000 972-Mgm-1 Monitoring the implementation and achievement of preventive medicine service － the utility rate of preventive medicine service since 2001. 1,550,000 Total 8,925,000 300,000USD

8. 2009 Call for Research Projects National Health Research Institute Cancer research Molecular and genomic medicine Clinical research Biotechnology and pharmaceutical research Biostatistics and bioinformatics Health policy research Environmental health and occupational medicine Medical engineering research Gerontology research Mental health and substance abuse research Vaccine research Stem cell research Naromedicine research Others (specify)

9. International collaborative research grant Sponsor organization –Biological Department of NSC Criteria –Both sides of the collaborative researchers propose project to their domestic sponsor –Such project is effective when both sides obtain the grant from their country Procedure –The application procedure is as regular proposals except using special code

10. 1. National Science Council (NSC) 2. National Health Research Institute of (NHRI) 3. Department of Health, 4. Department of Education 5. Bureau of Health Promotion 6. Taipei city government 7. Two teaching hospitals § Taipei Medical University Municipal Wan Fang Hospital § Taipei Medical University Hospital 8. Others: Five Alien Hospitals Research and Academic Grant Sponsors of TMUCON

11. Grants in past five years TMUCON

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