2024 APCCMPD Awards 
Call for Submissions

Purpose

The Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD) is now accepting grant proposals from Fellows-in-Training, junior faculty within 5-years of program completion, Associate Program Directors and/or Training Program Directors, for research projects related to adult pulmonary and critical care graduate medical education. Proposals may encompass any aspect of graduate medical education. Suggested topics, which are not meant to be exclusive, include:

• Identify and validate processes for assessing the competency of trainees in pulmonary/critical care medicine.
• Validate novel training methods or training outcomes in pulmonary/critical care medicine.
• Identify methods and measures to allow translation of medical education into providing quality care.
• Identify the relationship between organizational change and medical education and how it affects patient care.
• Develop new educational methods using novel technologies.
• Develop novel tools or approaches to facilitate GME and training program processes.

Review Previously-Funded Award Projects  

Eligibility Requirements

Applications may be submitted by pulmonary, critical care, and pulmonary/critical care medicine programs that are accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Applications may be submitted by a Fellow-in-Training, junior faculty within 5-years of program completion, Associate Program Director, or Program Director.

• The ACGME-accredited program must acknowledge and agree to the terms of the applicant’s application.
• Only one application per training program will be accepted.
• The Program Director must be a currently active member of the APCCMPD.
• If the applicant is a Fellow-in-Training or Associate Program Director, the project should be sponsored by a Program Director, and a formal mentor should be identified. The formal mentor and Program Director may be the same individual.
• All individuals listed on the application must submit a completed NIH Biosketch or CV.

Awardee Recognition

• A total of $25,000 is expected to be awarded in FY 2024 to support one or two projects.
• The number of awards is dependent on the number of high-quality applications and their individual budget requirements; it is not the intent that the awards be equal in size.
• Awardee(s) will be recognized at the APCCMPD 2024 Annual Conference to be held on February 28-March 1 in Las Vegas, NV. Awardee(s) will be asked to present a brief overview of their project. Further, at the completion of the project, awardee(s) will be asked to present a summary of the project's results at a future APCCMPD Annual Conference. If awarded, it is expected that the awardee(s) institution/division would support travel expenses to the APCCMPD 2024 Annual Conference to accept the award, and to a future APCCMPD Annual Conference to present the final results of the project. Travel expenses to accept the award and present the results should not be included in the proposed project budget.
• The APCCMPD will also recognize the awardee (and all nominees) in its quarterly newsletter, on the APCCMPD website, and in the APCCMPD 2024 Annual Conference Awards Program.

Submit an Online Application

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