UWHA GRANT
PURPOSE
To establish a University of Washington
Housestaff Association Resident/Fellow Grant to help fund and thereby promote
educational and career development projects during an individual’s residency or
fellowship.
ELIGIBILITY
All residents and fellows from all
departments at the University of Washington School of Medicine are eligible to
apply for a UWHA Resident/Fellow Grant. Applicants are eligible to apply for more than one grant a year if they
have more than one proposal.
The grant is intended for individuals; it is
not established to fund activities required for a residency or fellowship
program.
The
applicant will
1.
Be a Resident or Fellow of the UWSOM
2.
Have submitted an application according to the timeline
3.
Have provided a clear description of their project goals within
the application including a statement describing why the project is important
to his or her training and education.
4.
Not
be a member of the UWHA executive committee.
APPLICATION PROCESS
The
UWHA Grant application will be available online on the UWHA website from July 1st of each academic year. The
application will ask the resident or fellow to describe the proposed academic
project, the anticipated educational benefit of the project, and the requested
award amount ($500 to $2500). Proposed academic projects may include but are not limited to
the following: research (clinical or basic science), international clinical or
exploratory work, presenting at a national conference, community projects,
local clinic projects (resident-run clinics, preventative medicine strategies,
etc). Applicants are not required
to have a faculty sponsor to be considered for the UWHA grant, although the
amount of detail and establishment a project has including faculty support may
strengthen one’s application.
The
UWHA plans to award a total of $5000 yearly, allocated between 2 to 5 residents
or fellows by varying amounts from a minimum of $500 to a maximum of $2500
based on the proposed project.
After
completion of an award supported project, the resident or fellow will submit a
short summary statement which will be published on the UWHA website.
SELECTION PROCESS
The
UWHA officers will conduct a preliminary screening of the grant applications,
excluding all proposals that do not meet the criteria outlined above. A selection committee comprised of UWHA
executive members and department representatives will judge each proposal. The
Selection Committee will choose the grant winners and divide award funding
between proposals based on considerations of the following criteria.
1.
The proposed project must have a purpose that furthers the
medical training, education, or career of the applicant
2.
Priority will go to those proposals that are most likely to
provide unique opportunities for the applicant
3.
Priority will go to residents and fellows who have limited access
to other grant funding to support their projects
4.
Priority will go to projects that are well developed and
reasonable in scope
5.
A
resident/fellow can be awarded the UWHA grant only once.
6.
Proposals should be consistent with the values of the general community of
medicine and the University of Washington School of Medicine.
Additional rules for the selection committee
1.
UWHA representatives will not have priority over other Residents and Fellows
and will not participate in the selection discussion for their own project.
2.
The selection process will take place during 2 meetings in consecutive months
during the usual UWHA meeting time.
a.
During the first meeting, the eligible applications will be tallied; the selection committee will be formed by UWHA officers and
department reps present at the meeting; and, materials for reviewing the
grants will be made available to each of the selection committee members. Any
conflicts of interest should be made clear at this point.
b.
During the second meeting, the selection committee will review the scored grants
(see below), decide which proposals will be awarded
funds and how the funds will be divided among multiple proposals, if necessary.
3.
Grant scoring.
a.
Prior to the second grant selection meeting, Selection Committee members will
score each grant based on 4 criteria with up to 5 points for each of the
criteria for a maximum score of 20. The scores for each grant will be averaged. The 5 highest scoring grants will be presented at the
selection meeting. If there are
more than 5 grants within the top scores, then all of the top scoring grants
will be presented.
b.
The scoring criteria are
i.
The
proposed project’s value to the applicant’s education, training and/or career
ii.
The feasibility of the project
iii.
The extent to which the plan is developed
iv.
The value of the project to the UWSOM and medicine community at large
c.
After all grant applications are reviewed and discussed by the Selection Committee,
a vote will be conducted for each grant and a majority vote in favor of the
grant will be required for funding.
d.
After
the vote, the Selection Committee must determine how to divide funds among the
award winning grants. Funding amounts should be based on estimated project
needs as well as the score that the grant received.
4. UWHA and the selection committee may at their discretion choose not to distribute the full $5000 if the award winning projects require less, or too few qualified projects are submitted.
UWHA Executive Committee
D. Shane O'Mahony
Wil Van Cleve
Timothy Amukele
Jasmin Zia