TAIWAN FAMILY MEDICINE RESEARCH AWARD 2023

Call For Applications

TheTaiwanFamilyMedicineResearchAward (TFMRA) was established by the Chinese Taipei Association of Family Medicine (CTAFM) in 2008. It is to support travel expense for three junior family physicians to attend each WONCA World Conference The purpose of TFMRA was to encourage junior family physicians to conduct research in the specialtyfieldoffamilymedicine

THE AWARD

The TFMRA is a prize of USD 1,500 to each youngfamilyphysiciansfortheexcellenceof theirresearch

CTAFMwillgiveatotalofUSD4,500tojunior family physicians for them to attend the WONCA World Conference in Sydney, Australia Three junior family physicians will bechosenbytheselectioncommittee

Winners should attend the WONCA World Conference2023inpersonorbyanofficially approved representative by the selection committee to receive the award from the PresidentoftheChineseTaipeiAssociationof FamilyMedicine.

*AtleastonewinnershouldbefromtheAsia Pacificregion

Eligibility For Applicants

1 The applicant must fulfill one of the following qualifications: a practicing family physi-cian; an attending physician at an academic institute, a resident in a formal training program, or a graduate student in therelatedspecialtyoffamilymedicine.

2.Theapplicantshouldbeunder40yearsof age and in the first three years of their researchcareer.

3 No more than one applicant from each WONCAMemberOrganisation

4 The applicant should submit a full paper that is unpublished and unpresented elsewhere

5 Thesubmittedpapershouldhavereceived nofundingfromanyresourcesoraward

6 The award paper should be presented at theWONCAWorldConference2023

Criteria For Selection

1. Relevance of the research topic to the familymedicineofthecountrywheretheresearchwasconducted.

2. The originality of the article and compliancetothecodesofresearchethics.

3 Rigoroftheresearchmethodology

4 Contribution of the research to clinical practice

5 QualityofEnglishwritingincludingbutnot limited to abstract, introduction/background,literaturereview,materials andmethods,results,anddiscussion.

To Apply

Please send submissions, including a covering letter to Chinese Taipei Association ofFamilyMedicineandacopyofarecentCV, by the closing date of Friday 19 May 2023 at 17:00 UTC to the WONCA Secretariat at secretariat@wonca.net.