TMU-STEP (Short-Term Education Program)

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Courses in Fall Semester 2024 are available now!

[Above: 2020 TMU-STEP students (Minerva Schools at KGI, U.S.A.) at Pharmaceutical lab.]

About TMU-STEP (Short-Term Education Program)

Taipei Medical University Short-Term Education Program (TMU-STEP) provides an opportunity for students from universities around the world to study at TMU for one or two semesters. TMU-STEP consists of a wide variety of English-taught classes in Health Sciences, conducted onsite and/or remotely.

Students have a wide range of course options in fields such as Medicine, Oral Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, Nutrition, Biomedical Engineering, Medical Sciences and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Healthcare Management, Interdisciplinary Studies, and General Education.

For onsite participation, in addition to professional courses, students attending TMU-STEP courses may also sign up for fee-charging Chinese language courses when available. There will also be opportunities to take part in numerous traditional and contemporary Taiwanese cultural activities.

Courses

Courses in Fall Semester 2024 are available now!

Important dates & deadlines

Types of Attendance	Date
On-site	June 21 (Friday), 2024
Online	August 26 (Monday), 2024

Click here to apply!

Please click on the course title and instructor for detailed syllabus and instructor’s profile.

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GPS_TMU-STEP 1131 (Fall Semester 2024)

Num.	Available Online/On-campus	College	English Course Title	Num. of Credits	Reruirements	Quota of Exchange Student	Instructor 1	Instructor 2	Instructor 3
01	On-campus	College of Medicine	Basic computer programing	2	Not specified	10	Nguyen Quoc Khanh Le
02	On-campus	College of Oral Medicine	Seminar(I)	1	Not specified	1	I-Ta Lee
03	On-campus	College of Oral Medicine	Advanced topics in digital oral engineering	2	Not specified	2	Chung-Kwei Lin
04	Online, asynchronously	College of Oral Medicine	Advanced topics in oral science	2	Not specified	2	Yin-Shen Wee
05	On-campus	College of Pharmacy	Proteomics	2	Not specified	5	Chia-Li Han
06	On-campus	College of Pharmacy	Seminar in pharmacognosy	2	Background: Pharmacy-related fields	5	Kuei-Hung Lai	Eric Brand
07	On-campus	College of Pharmacy	Clinical drug discovery of pharmacokinetics & pharmacodynamics from botanical herbs	2	Background: Pharmacy-related fields	5	Chia-Jung Lee
08	Online, synchronously	College of Nursing	Special topics in writing for publication	2	Background: Medicine/healthcare field; PhD student	5	Pei-Shan Tsai
09	Online, synchronously	College of Nursing	Special topics in international aging and long-term care	1	Background: Medicine/healthcare field; MSc stundets or those with a MSc degree/MD degree	3	Shu-Chun Lee
10	Online, synchronously, On-campus	College of Nursing	Introduction to disaster nursing	3	Background: Nursing-related fields; Master's degree or higher level students	12	Fu-Chih Lai
11	Online, asynchronously	College of Nutrition	Introduction to food safety & nutrition	0.5	Background: Medicine or Life Science related fields	10	Jane C-J Chao
12	Online, asynchronously	College of Nutrition	Nutrition and disease prevention	0.5	Background: Medicine or Life Science related fields	Unlimited	Jung-Su Chang
13	Online, asynchronously	College of Nutrition	Nutrition & Health (I)	2	Background: Health and Life Science Related fields	10	Duong Van Tuyen
14	Online, asynchronously	College of Nutrition	Cell Biology	2	Background: Medicine or Life Science related fields	10	Jane C-J Chao
15	Online, synchronously	College of Public Health	Special topics in infectious disease control & global health	2	Background: Medicine/Nursing/Public Health/Healthcare Management, any grade level.	30	Liang Tzung Lin
16	Online, synchronously	College of Public Health	Tropical medicine & microbiology	2	Background: Medicine/Nursing/Public Health/Healthcare Management, any grade level.	30	Liang Tzung Lin
17	Online, asynchronously	College of Public Health	International health research	2	Not specified	Unlimited	Chyi-Huey Bai
18	Online, asynchronously	College of Management	Seminar in total quality management of health care	2	Not specified	5	Nai-Wen Kuo
19	On-campus	College of Management	Evaluation of health care policy	2	Not specified	8	Mei-Ling Sheu
20	On-campus	College of Management	Health information management	2	Background: Medical university related departments	3	Hsyien-Chia Wen
21	On-campus	College of Management	Theory of organization & management	2	Not specified	5	Che-Ming Yang
22	On-campus	College of Management	Individual studies in global burden of diseases & healthcare cost issues	2	Background: Health care studies related with basic English literacy	8	Chung-Chien Huang
23	Online, asynchronously	College of Medical Science and Technology	Tumor molecular biology & microenvironment: current challenges & opportunities in oncology precision therapeutics	3	Background: Biomedcine/Life Sciences/Cell Biology/Molecular Biology	30	Jing-Wen Shih
24	Online, asynchronously	College of Medical Science and Technology	Epigenetics	2	Background: Biomedcine/Life Sciences/Cell Biology/Molecular Biology	30	Yen-Nien Liu
25	Online, asynchronously	College of Medical Science and Technology	Neuroscience from bench to bedside studies	2	Background: Medical Neuroscience	20	Tzu-Jen Kao	Tsung-I Hsu
26	On-campus	College of Medical Science and Technology	Clinical application of neuroscience research & technology	2	Background: Medical Neuroscience	5	Tzu-Jen Kao	Tsung-I Hsu
27	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Structural characterization of nanomaterials	2	Not specified	5	Chih-Hsin Lin
28	Online, synchronously	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Advanced topics in materials & sensing analysis	2	Not specified	5	Tzu-Sen Yang
29	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Cancer biology from tissue engineering in	2	Not specified	5	Ching-Li Tseng
30	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Processing & characterization of biomedical materials	2	Not specified	5	Chien-Chung Chen
31	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Moon-Shan academia-industry forum	2	Not specified	5	Ching-Li Tseng
32	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Special topics in Moon-Shan academia-industry forum	2	Not specified	5	Thierry Pierre Robert Burnouf
33	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Medical photonics	2	Not specified	5	Tzu-Sen Yang
34	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	BioMEMS	2	Not specified	5	Li-Chern Pan
35	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Nanomaterials & device design	2	Not specified	5	Tsung-Rong Kuo
36	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Advanced topics in nanotechnology	2	Not specified	5	Chih-Hsin Lin
37	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Biomedical materials	2	Not specified	5	Ching-Li Tseng
38	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Disease models in a dish: combining stem cells, materials & tissue engineering	2	Not specified	5	David Lundy
39	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Advanced biomedical materials	2	Not specified	5	David Lundy
40	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Special topics in drug delivery system	2	Not specified	5	Er-Yuan Chuang
41	On-campus	College of Biomedical Engineering?	Programming languages for biomedical engineering	2	Not specified	10	Cheng-Yu Tsai
42	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Mind, body and society	3	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Tzu-Yu Hsu	Dana Powell	Hsin-Chien Lee
43	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Introduction to neuroscience	3	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Christoph Dahl	Jihwan Myung	Niall Duncan
44	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Visual Cognition	3	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Christoph Dahl
45	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Research methods in experimental psychology	2	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Tzu-Yu Hsu
46	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Psychiatric neuroscience	3	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Matteo Martino
47	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Neural transmission & metabolism	3	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Niall Duncan
48	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Functional magnetic resonance imaging	3	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Changwei W. Wu
49	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Introduction to Sleep and Circadian Rhythms	3	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Jihwan Myung
50	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Advanced psychological statistics	3	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Niall Duncan
51	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	The cognitive neuroscience of interpersonal communication	3	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Hui-Chuan Chang
52	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Methodology & research design	2	Master's degree or higher level students	5	Meei-ying Kao
53	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Medical Education and Implementations	3	Background: Health Professional Students (including Healthcare Management, Public Health, etc); any grade level are eligible	5	Faith Ruofan Liao
54	On-campus	College of Humanities and Social Sciences	Science, technology and society	3	Master's degree or higher level students	10	Dana Powell
55	On-campus	Center for General Education	(ESP) Journalistic English	2	Recommended for students with a CEFR B2 level	5	To-Ken Lee
56	On-campus	Center for General Education	The power of short stories	2	Not specified	5	Chia-Chieh Tseng

Click here to view the previous TMU-STEP course list

More courses available on MOOCs platforms now, instructed by TMU and its IOOOI partners:

Download the course list here (2024-04)

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Eligibility

Applicants must fulfill the following requirement

Undergraduate and graduate students who are currently enrolled at universities outside Taiwan.
Be officially nominated by their home institution and pay the tuition fee to their home institution, not to TMU.
Complete at least one semester of the home university program before they apply.
Have a cumulative grade point average (GPA) of at least 2.75 (on a 4.0 scale) or equivalent.
Be proficient in English. Non-native English speakers must have a score of at least TOEFL iBT 79 or IELTS 5.5.

Program Certificate

Information about certificate and credit transfer

TMU issues certificate of completion and transcript to the students who successfully meet the program requirements of TMU-STEP.

The credits taken under TMU-STEP can be transferred to the student’s home university. Please consult your home university about how to apply for credit transfer.

Housing

Formosa101: http://www.hostelformosa.com/index.html
Borderless House: https://www.borderless-house.com/tw/
International House of Taipei: https://www.ihouse.taipei/en
Rental information and tips (the Office of Student Affairs): https://osa.tmu.edu.tw/front/military_education_office/military_education_office08/pages.php?ID=dG11X29zYSZtaWxpdGFyeV9lZHVjYXRpb25fb2ZmaWNlMDg=

For more information, please contact the Global Partnerships Section:

gps@tmu.edu.tw

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Taipei

Taipei is the capital city of Taiwan. With its busy shopping streets and contemporary buildings, Taipei serves as the island’s financial, cultural and governmental center. The skyline is crowned by the bamboo-shaped Taipei 101 skyscraper, with upscale shops at the base and a rapid elevator to an observatory near the 508-meter top.

The downtown area offers enjoyable contrasts, with the west side’s narrow streets and street vendors showing Taipei’s past. The city’s east side is now its financial and commercial center, with the Xinyi District’s malls and nightlife representing the city’s metamorphosis into a modern international city.

About Taipei Medical University

Founded in 1960, Taipei Medical University (TMU) is the leading private university in Taiwan that excels in teaching, research, and a full range of health care services. A wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate degree programs are offered, including Medicine, Oral Medicine, Pharmacy, Nursing, Public Health, Medical Science and Technology, Humanities and Social Sciences, Management, Biomedical Engineering and Nutrition.