Duke AHEAD is very pleased to offer project funding for members of Duke AHEAD. This funding is intended to provide critical start up support for projects aimed at improving health professions education through innovative approaches to instruction or assessment.
Eligibility: Duke University School of Medicine and School of Nursing faculty who are Duke AHEAD members. Membership information can be found here. Trainees and students may be included as collaborators. One faculty member must be designated as the Principal Investigator/Point person. The Principal Investigator must provide a letter of support from his/her department chair or other equivalent chief of service or supervisor who most directly oversees his/her career advancement.
Letters of Intent are due by July 31. Feedback from reviewers will be provided by Aug. 31, 2014, and the full proposal will be due by Oct. 2, 2014. Grants will be awarded at a presentation at Duke AHEAD’s first annual Celebration of Education Event, Nov. 13-14, 2014.
Reviews will be performed by a panel of faculty and evaluated according to alignment with the mission and goals of Duke AHEAD including:
- strength of professional development plan for educators
- interprofessional collaboration
- depth of collaboration (interdepartmental, interprofessional, vertical across learners)
- rigor of assessment plan (outcomes)
- broader impacts (collateral benefits beyond study/project participants)
- potential sustainability of project
- potential for scholarship