Academy Innovations Funding Focus Areas

Key areas of interest for undergraduate and graduate medical education include, but are not limited to:

• Teaching and assessment of systems based practice
  
• Competency-based learning and assessment
• New approaches for struggling learners
• Technology that enhances access, learning, and/or assessment
• New approaches for struggling learners
• Pilots for integrating curriculum across learner levels and/or domains
  
  

Priority settings and approaches include:

• Longitudinal learning programs
  
• Clinical settings
  
• Interface between medical education and electronic health records or mobile access
• Interprofessional education
• Global Health
  
• 4th year of medical school

 

Examples include, but are not limited to:

• Use of MD portfolio in self-directed learning
  
• Assessment tools in clinical settings
  
• Practice-based learning and improvement
  
• Systems-based practice
  
  

Funding is not limited to these priority areas. Faculty members whose project ideas are not related to this year's funding priorities are still encouraged to submit proposals. Proposals that combine multiple priority themes are also encouraged.

Regardless of a proposal's specific area of focus, the Innovations Funding Program encourages proposals that span multiple learner levels, include collaboration across departments/programs, and include junior faculty in the role as principal investigator.

Successful proposals include a robust evaluation plan and have the potential to be applied to and disseminated beyond a single program, institution, or specialty.