Educational Scholarship Funding

AAMC Fostering Scholarship in Medical Education – Resources for Authors and Reviewers

This curated set of resources will help faculty and staff to advance their work as health professions education researchers, writers, and reviewers. All resources are available to access and download for free unless otherwise noted.

Johns Hopkins Medicine Educator Resources for Funding

This webpage lists funding resources categorized into the following categories:

(i) Opportunities that are restricted to members of a particular organization

(ii) Opportunities that do not require an organizational membership

(iii) Institutions that periodically issue funding calls for proposals encompassing medical education research, offering varying funding amounts.

IAMSE A Toolkit for Explorers in Medical Sciences Educational Scholarship – From Ideas to Dissemination

IAMSE. A Toolkit for Explorers in Medical Sciences Educational Scholarship: From Ideas to Dissemination. 

This Toolkit provides a variety of resources to help navigate educational scholarship projects in the medical sciences. Includes information regarding: introduction to medical sciences education; identifying a mentor; conducting a literature review; selecting a conceptual framework; overview of research designs, etc. Additionally, it also contains a list of opportunities to identify sources of funding (p.36) and a checklist of objectives for educational scholarship projects (p.70).

Medical University of South Carolina Libraries – Educational Research: Funding Opportunities

This guide contains a list of state, federal, and international funding sources along with grant search engines for finding more opportunities.

Needles and Haystacks – Finding Funding for Medical Education Research

Gruppen, L. D., & Durning, S. J. (2016). Needles and haystacks. Academic Medicine, 91(4), 480–484.

The competitive environment for medical education research funding makes it essential to understand strategies for improving the search for funding sources and the preparation of proposals. This article offers a number of resources, strategies, and suggestions for finding funding.

NIAID – Apply for a Grant

This page contains helpful information and resources such as a grant writing webinar series, sample applications, eligibility assessment, application preparation, maximizing funding opportunities, etc.

Show Me the Money: Successfully Obtaining Grant Funding in Medical Education.

Gottlieb, M., Lee, S., Burkhardt, J., Carlson, J. N., King, A. M., Wong, A. H., & Santen, S. A. (2019, January). Show me the money: Successfully obtaining grant funding in medical education. The Western Journal of Emergency Medicine.

This paper provides an overview of the importance of grant funding within medical education, followed by a stepwise discussion of strategies for creating a successful grant application for medical education-based proposals. The last section includes a list of available medical education research grants.

Sources of Funding for Medical Education

Contains a list of sources of funding for medical education. Also contains industry-related grants that are further divided into skills-based and disease-based grants.

AAMC – Team Up for Scholarship Collaboration

This program aims to facilitate research or innovation project collaborations among members. This year, the program was extended to include any GEA members (NEGEA, SGEA, and WGEA). Check the document for current dates to participate.

Washington University Funding Resources

The programs and organizations listed offer external funding opportunities for research and scholarship in health professions education, along with additional information regarding public grant agencies like the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Please ignore the internal funding resources as those are for Washington University employees only.

UW-Madison Wisconsin Partnership Program Grant Funding

The Wisconsin Partnership Program advances its mission through a strong portfolio of grant programs that support research initiatives, education and training, and community partnerships to improve health and advance health equity. There are several grant types, for example:

• Faculty Grants
  
  The Wisconsin Partnership Program offers Faculty Grants supporting research on various health issues. Programs include interdisciplinary team science, support for early-career faculty, projects addressing urgent health challenges, COVID-19 response, and initiatives to improve health equity.

UW ICTR Funding opportunities

ICTR offers a variety of funding mechanisms that may not focus on education scholarship but could allow education scholarship to be woven in as part of a larger proposal. Programs cover a range of translational research areas, including basic discovery and community engagement.

For potential education scholarship funding opportunities, check with your department or UW SMPH programs and offices. 

For example, Department of Medicine Opportunities: 

Medical Education Innovation Grants

Shapiro Summer Research Program

This program at the UW SMPH offers first-year medical students the opportunity to engage in full-time research for 8-10 weeks over the summer, and aims to enhance students’ research skills and includes additional training sessions and seminars. Faculty interested in participating can submit research projects which could fit well with education scholarship activities.

Academy for Diversity and Inclusion in Emergency Medicine (ADIEM)

ADIEM – Research Grant
This grant provides $6,000 over a year, beginning July 1, to fund research focusing on assessing diversity and inclusion within Emergency Medicine, examining interventions to enhance diversity and inclusion in this field, or addressing healthcare outcome disparities among underrepresented or marginalized groups in Emergency Medicine practice.

American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine (AACOM)

AACOM – Research Grants
The AACOM’s Grants Program includes awards for medical education research and institutional research. These Medical Education Research Grants are for a period of eighteen (18) months. Funding is available for up to $5,000 for single-institution study and up to $10,000 for multi-institution study. Please review the website information to learn about the dates.

American Medical Association (AMA) – Joan F. Giambalvo Fund

AMA – Joan F. Giambalvo Fund for the Advancement of Women
This opportunity provides scholarships of up to $10,000 to support research advancing the study of women in the medical profession and strengthening the AMA’s ability to identify and address the issues affecting women physicians and medical students.

American Physiological Society (APS) – Teaching Section New Investigator Award

APS – Teaching Section New Investigator Award
This opportunity includes an award of $1000, early registration fee reimbursement for the APS Summit, and a complimentary banquet ticket. Candidates should be APS Teaching of Physiology Section members who have made significant contributions to educational scholarship.

Arnold P. Gold Foundation

Arnold P. Gold Foundation Programs
This organization offers several funding opportunities aimed at supporting medical educational scholarship and research. Its initiatives promote humanism in medical education and healthcare.

Literature Review Grant: Mapping the Landscape, Journeying Together
Provides teams with $5,000 grants for rigorous reviews on topics related to humanism in healthcare that will be completed with a submission-ready manuscript within 18 months.

The Picker Gold Graduate Medical Education Challenge Grant Program
Provides up to $25,000 to support research and development of successful patient-centered care initiatives and best practices in the education of future physicians.

Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)

AMEE Awards & Grants
This organization promotes scholarship in health care professions education to advance research grant award knowledge and best practices in education as well as to build a community of scholars working in the field. It provides up to £10,000 GBP for research projects in health professions education.

MERCS Grant
This opportunity aims to provide financial support to HPE scholars working in emerging, disadvantaged, and/or resource-constrained settings to create opportunities for health professions education research. Funding of up to £2,000 GBP is available.

Faculty Development Research Grant
This grant provides a total of £7,000 for one Faculty Development Project. Applicants must be a current paid AMEE Individual member, with either the Principal Investigator or one of the Associate Investigators holding an AMEE Individual membership at the time of application.

Association for American Medical Colleges (AAMC)

AAMC Award Opportunities
The AAMC receives external funding from the federal government and private foundations for work in specific areas related to the AAMC’s strategic plan and mission of improving the health of people everywhere by advancing the academic medicine community.

Below is a list of a selection of prestigious awards and funding opportunities offered by the AAMC to recognize and support excellence in medical education and equity promotion. It includes awards for outstanding teaching, helping in advancing medical education, promoting justice and equity in healthcare, and supporting research projects addressing critical issues in medical education.

Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards
This award acknowledges exceptional contributions to medical education by talented educators. Up to four awards are given annually, and each awardee receives a $10,000 prize. Additionally, the awardee’s nominating institution will receive a $2,500 grant for teaching activities and if the institution has an AΩA chapter, the chapter will receive a $1,000 grant for its activities.

AAMC Award for Excellence in Medical Education
This award recognizes excellence in medical education and honors an individual or a team of two whose contributions have had a demonstrable impact on advancing medical education. The awardee receives the AAMC Award for Excellence and a prize of $10,000.

AAMC Herbert W. Nickens Award
Given to an individual who has made outstanding contributions to promoting justice in medical education and health care equity in the United States. The awardee receives the Nickens Award and a $10,000 prize. The awardee will also present the Nickens Lecture at Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting.

AAMC Herbert W. Nickens Faculty Fellowship
This award is given to an exceptional assistant-level faculty member who demonstrates efforts in addressing needs of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States. The recipient receives a $25,000 grant to support a project performed in the United States to support racial and ethnic minorities.

AAMC Group on Educational Affairs (GEA)
This award provides a funding opportunity to research projects that address important problems or questions in medical education. Multiple projects may be funded each year up to $10,000 each up to a two-year grant period. The number of proposals funded per year will depend upon the GEA budget and proposal quality.

Association of Standardized Patient Educators (ASPE) – Research and Project Awards

ASPE Research and Project Awards
Provides incentive grants of up to $10,000 to members who propose unique research or development projects related to use of standardized patients. Studies or projects focused on human simulation-based education as an educational methodology and identifying best practices or advances in methodology are particularly encouraged.

Association for Surgical Education Foundation (ASEF) – Pyramid Grant

ASEF Pyramid Grant Application
The ASEF offers the following research grants: (i) Gold-level grants ($500-$1000) for small surgery education projects; (ii) Diamond-level grants ($2500) for mixed methods surgery education project; (iii) Platinum-level grants ($10,000) for multi-institutional projects; (iv) Two Giant-Robot grants ($25,000 each) for projects that focus on robotic surgery research questions including curriculum design, training programs, etc.

Please note that the Principal Investigator (PI) must be an ASE member in good standing. If the applicant is currently in residency training, they must obtain a sponsor letter from an Active ASE member at their primary research institution.

Council on Medical Student Education in Pediatrics (COMSEP) – Grant Program

COMSEP Grant Program
This grant aims to promote and support innovative educational scholarship that is designed, implemented, and evaluated by COMSEP members. Selected educational grant(s) will be supported for a total of $5,000 each and a maximum of two grants will be funded for a period of 24 months.

Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Grants

HRSA Grants
HRSA provides grants to improve and expand health care services for underserved people such as people with low income, with HIV, who are pregnant, who live in rural areas, who received a transplant, etc.

INSPIRE Travel award
Awards for INSPIRE investigators to travel to INSPIRE at IMSH and IPSSW with priority to investigators from low- and middle-income countries as well as non-MD investigators. Travel funds for each award must not exceed $3,000.

International Education Research Foundation (IERF) – Research Grants

IERF Research Grants
Grants of up to $1,000 are offered for projects focusing on assessing academic credentials from other countries, assisting the integration of international scholars and professionals in the U.S., facilitating research sharing and publication, and fostering collaboration on educational systems and credential recognition.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation – President’s Grants

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation – President’s Grants
These grants accept year-round applications, have a project duration of up to one year and award amounts up to $25,000 –  inclusive of indirect costs not exceeding 10%.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation – Macy Faculty Scholars Program

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation – Macy Faculty Scholars Program
The Macy Faculty Scholars Program aims to identify and nurture promising early-career educators in medicine and nursing. It provides a Salary Support of up to $100,000 per year for two years for 50% protected time to pursue a mentored educational project at the home institution. It also pays tuition costs for one Harvard Macy Institute course. Scholars receive $25,000 per year for two years to subsidize the cost of professional development activities and related project expenses. Eligible candidates must have a doctoral degree.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation – Catalyst Awards

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation – Catalyst Awards
These awards support projects that impact the clinical learning environment and improve the experience of residents and fellows in one of the three priority areas: (i) promoting diversity, equity, and belonging, (ii) fostering high-performing inter-professional teams, and (iii) preparing future health professionals to navigate ethical dilemmas.

Each project will receive up to $100,000 in total costs over the 18-month period. Applications may be submitted by any resident, fellow, and faculty member involved with graduate medical education.

Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) – Research Grant

RSNA Research Grant
This grant’s recipients receive up to $25,000 for a one-year project. Funding may be used to cover the cost of research materials, research assistant support and limited primary investigator salary support. Salary support may be no more than half of the grant award.

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEMF) – Education Project Grant

SAEMF’s Education Project Grant
This grant awards $20,000 over a one-year period starting July 1 to support innovation in teaching, education, and educational research in emergency medicine for faculty, fellow, resident, and medical student-level learners to provide support for a medical education research project.

Society for Simulation in Healthcare (SSH) – Research Award Program

SSH Research Award Program
This program supports early career researchers in developing methodologically sound simulation-based research projects, completed within 18 months of fund receipt. Principal Investigators must submit progress and final reports at nine and 18 months, respectively. Grants of up to $10,000 are offered.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) – Career Development Awards

AHRQ Career Development (K) Awards
This opportunity spans 3 to 5 years. Candidates must dedicate at least nine person-months (75% full-time professional effort) annually to research career development. AHRQ offers up to $90,000 salary (plus fringe benefits) and $25,000 for supplies and research expenses.

Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine (AAIM) – Innovation Grants

AAIM Innovation Grants
This opportunity offers $400,000 for inter-professional projects by internal medicine residents and faculty to enhance trust and health equity. Of this, $100,000 is earmarked for grants targeting diagnostic excellence and disparities related to race, ethnicity, gender, etc.

American Educational Research Association (AERA) – NSF Grants Program

AERA-National Science Foundation (NSF) Grants Program
This program supports education research through small grants and training and enhances research capacity using large-scale data. It also offers research grants for doctoral graduates and dissertation grants for advanced doctoral students.

Research Grants
These research grants are available for faculty, postdoctoral researchers, and other doctoral-level scholars. Awards are up to $25,000 for 1-year projects or $35,000 for 2-year projects. Institutions cannot charge indirect costs or overhead.

Bush Foundation Fellowship Program

Bush Foundation Fellowship Program
The Bush Fellowship program supports accomplished leaders with extraordinary track records who are ready to take their efforts to the next level and have even greater impact with and across communities. This program selects up to 24 Bush Fellows each year for a two-year fellowship, providing a $100,000 grant to support their leadership agenda. Fellowships last between 12 and 24 months.

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation – Board Grants

Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation – Board Grants
This grant is awarded thrice a year, has a project duration of 1-3 years, and an annual budget target: up to $100,000, including indirect costs not exceeding 10%.

Click on the link above and scroll down to learn about Board Grants.

SACME – Phil R. Manning Research Award in Continuing Professional Development

SACME Manning Award
Click on the link above and scroll down to the second award for more info.

This grant considers proposals from SACME members for original, scientific research related to physician and/or health professionals lifelong learning, for funding of up to a total amount of $50,000 over two years​.

The eligibility criteria for this grant is as follows:

(i) The PI must be a SACME member, (ii) At least one member of the team must hold or have held a clinical role, (iii) At least one member of the team must hold of have held a role in CME/CPD/IPE/FD/PS/KT/QI, (iv) At least one member of the team must be considered an “early career investigator”,  and (v) At least one member of the team must hold sufficient credentials and/or experience and/or expertise related to lead or supervise the proposed project.

Spencer Foundation Research Grants

Spencer Foundation Research Grants
The Spencer Foundation’s Research Grants support intellectually ambitious and technologically sound research relevant to the most pressing questions in education.

Racial Equity Research Grants
The grants offer up to $75,000 for 1-5 year projects researching and mitigating racial inequality in education. Proposals can explore various methodologies and address diverse educational issues, including innovative measurement, AI, and political challenges in K-12 and higher education.

Research grants on education: Large
Projects may span from one to five years, with budgets ranging from $125,000 to $500,000. Anticipated grants will fall within three funding tiers: $125,000 to $250,000; $250,001 to $375,000; and $375,001 to $500,000.

Research grants on education: Small
These are grants with budgets up to $50,000 and for projects ranging from one to five years. They accept applications three times per year.

Research-Practice Partnerships: Collaborative research for educational change
These partnerships are for budgets up to $400,000 and durations of up to three years. They accept “Intent to Apply” forms once a year in this program.

Stemmler Grants

Stemmler Grants
These Grants provide up to three awards of up to $150,000 each year to support research teams in developing innovative assessment approaches for medical practitioners.

William T. Grant Foundation Grants

William T. Grant Foundation Grants
Seeks research that builds stronger theory and empirical evidence in these two areas: programs, policies, and practices that reduce inequality in youth outcomes, and strategies to improve the use of research evidence in ways that benefit youth.

William T. Grant Scholars Program – Funding
This program fosters the career growth of promising early-career researchers through five-year grants, expanding expertise in new areas. Recipients receive $350,000 over five years without replacing existing institutional support.

Research Grants on Improving the Use of Research Evidence
The program funds research to improve the use and impact of evidence for young Americans aged 5-25. Grants range from $100,000 to $1,000,000 over 2-4 years, with up to 15% for indirect costs. Studies using secondary data can receive $100,000-$300,000, while those needing new data collection can receive $300,000-$600,000.

Institutional Challenge Grant
The Institutional Challenge Grant offers $650,000 over three years to help university research entities form lasting partnerships with public agencies or nonprofits to reduce youth inequality. Up to $60,000 is allocated for nine months of planning, with 15% allowed for indirect costs.