Faculty Health Professions Education Grant

Faculty* members who are beyond the first seven years of their initial faculty appointment in a Canadian health sciences faculty (or equivalent).

*Faculty includes MD, PhD/Masters or other healthcare professionals

Award Amount: $5,000.

Our Health Professions Education Grants are now closed! Thank you to everyone who submitted a Letter of Intent! Our adjudication committees are looking forward to reading your submissions!

Successful applicants who have been selected to submit a full proposal will be notified on December 8, 2023 via email.

Purpose

Opportunities for peer-reviewed grant support in Health Professions Education are limited. Learners and faculty at all stages, who have new projects, can face challenges in obtaining support. The CAME Foundation Health Professions Education Grants support new and innovative scholarly projects in Health Professions Education that are not part of larger, formalized and funded education research programs.

Eligibility

General criteria:

Applicants (Principal Investigators) and Supervisors of Principal Investigators, if the Principal Investigator is a learner must be members of Canadian Association for Medical Education.
Members of the CAME Grant Committee are not eligible to be an investigator (or author) in the project.
Members of the CAME Executive, or the CAME Foundation Board of Directors cannot be a principal investigator on a submission; however, they can be listed as a co-investigator (or co-author).

Please note: The CAME Foundation grants are intended to be stand alone projects with no other funding outside of the $5000.00 and are expected to be completed within a 12 month timeframe.

For all questions related to this year’s grant process please email: CAMEFdnGrants@gmail.com

Step 1: Letter of Intent

The letter of intent should outline explicitly the Impact and innovation of the problem tackled, research question and objectives, methodology and analysis, anticipated results (potential impact of the proposed Health Professions Education), knowledge translation and team composition.

Letters of intent will be reviewed by the CAME Grants Committee, and assessed on:

Impact and innovation of the problem tackled, research question and objectives, methodology and analysis, anticipated results (potential impact of the proposed Health Professions Education), knowledge translation and team composition.

At least two reviewers will read, review and score each letter of intent. From these scores, the letters will be ranked and the top submissions will be asked to submit a full proposal. Only those invited to submit a full proposal will be considered further.

Our Health Professions Education Grants are now closed! Thank you to everyone who submitted a Letter of Intent! Our adjudication committees are looking forward to reading your submissions!

Successful applicants who have been selected to submit a full proposal will be notified on December 8, 2023 via email.

Step 2: Full Proposal

Applicants invited to submit a full proposal will be requested to submit:

1. An abridged CV per team member (maximum 3 pages each, focusing on previous relevant experiences and training) for the principal investigator and co-investigators. Please upload in one pdf document.

2. A project summary (maximum 2000 words) including:

Problem statement and potential impact for the field of HPE
Research question(s) and/or objective(s)
Methods (design, population and recruitment, data collection and analysis, ethical considerations)
Anticipated results or outcomes
Knowledge translation plan

3. Budget: Note that the following expenses are ineligible – salary support for PI or other faculty members, university/institution overhead, computers and other equipment unless integral to the study (e.g. tape recorder); publication costs in an Open Access journal; travel expenses to attend conferences; conference registration.

4. A proposed timeline.

5. A letter of support from departmental chair/chief or education dean.

6. A high definition professional photo (head shot) and 3-4 line biography.

Full proposal application details:

Full proposals should be submitted online via the CAME website. The online form will request the PI’s first initial, last name, short version of the title to be used as the document’s name and year (of submission).
Application packages should be submitted by successful applicants via the CAME website by 1700 EST on February 23, 2024.

Adjudication (Full Proposal):

The adjudication process of full proposal applications will be administered by CAME.

The CAME Grants Committee Chair will convene a selection committee for each grant. Diverse committee members from various backgrounds (including disciplines, methodological expertise, content expertise etc.) will be recruited by the CAME Executive or Board, CAME Foundation Board and CAME members from across Canada.
Criteria for selection for funding include:
Problem statement and potential impact for the field of HPE
Research question(s) and/or objective(s)
Methods (design, population and recruitment, data collection and analysis, ethical considerations)
Anticipated results or outcomes
Knowledge translation plan
Team Composition
Budget justification
Feasibility

Faculty Health Professions Education Grant Full Proposal Submission Form

Principal Investigator: *

Email *

List co-investigators: *

Title of full proposal