Emergency Medicine Interest Group Grant

Deadline

Friday, February 15, 2013

The following is an overview of the educational award. For complete instructions on applying, please see the attached Request for Proposals (RFP). For submission instructions, please visit How To Apply.

The SAEM Foundation recognizes the valuable role of emergency medicine medical student interest groups (EMIGs), and awards grants to support these groups' educational activities. 

The goals of the SAEM Emergency Medicine Interest Group grants are:

• To promote growth of emergency medicine education at the medical student level,
• To identify new educational methodologies advancing undergraduate education in emergency medicine, and
• To support educational endeavors of an EMIG.

Given these broad goals, there are few limitations on the nature of eligible proposals. Proposals should focus on educational activities or projects related to undergraduate education in emergency medicine. Grant monies may be used for supplies, consultation, and seed money. Faculty salary support is excluded.

Duration of the award

July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014

Financial award

An award of up to $500 is provided for one year. Awardees may apply for subsequent years of funding on a competitive basis. Funding cannot be used for salary or institutional overhead.

Eligibility

Applicant: 

Established or developing EMIGs, located at medical schools with or without emergency medicine residencies, are eligible to apply. Medical students can serve as primary applicants if a faculty co-applicant is listed. Applications will be reviewed by a subcommittee of the Clerkship Directors of Emergency Medicine (CDEM) an Academy of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Each application will be judged according to educational merit, significance to emergency medicine, originality, methodology, institutional support, applicant qualifications, and appropriateness of budget. Final recommendations of grant awards will be made by the CDEM Executive Committee.

Department

The applicant must submit letters of support if the proposed project utilizes facilities not routinely available to or directly under the supervision of the sponsoring program.

Mentor

The faculty advisor of the grant proposal must be a member of SAEM at the time of the grant application deadline.

Deliverables

All discoveries resulting from work supported in part by SAEM should be made available to the public and scientific community through approved scientific channels such as national meetings and peer-reviewed journals. Publications will acknowledge the support of SAEM with the statement: "This study has been supported by a grant from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine. Two reprints of each publication should be forwarded to SAEM. Publications are encouraged, but not required, to be submitted to Academic Emergency Medicine."

EMIG Application Form
EMIG RFP