Advanced research training grants
Wanted: your letter of intent
The Academy's new research initiative could make a big difference to you and your practice or teaching career.
Submit a letter of intent to pursue an advanced research training grant, and -- if you make a good case for your intent to combine research with your clinical practice or academic work -- you may be able to plunge into serious study.
The grants will provide up to $50,000 per year for two years to as many as 10 AAFP members in the program's first cycle.
The AAFP Task Force to Enhance Family Practice Research, headed by AAFP Director Joseph Scherger, M.D., of San Diego, coordinates the initiative. "The objective of the grants is to increase the number of family physicians who can and will become published researchers," said Scherger.
The task force will ask a limited number of FPs submitting letters of intent to follow up with complete grant proposals.
Applicants should be:
- practicing FPs who want to devote significant time and energy to research,
- junior faculty who want to become investigators,
- family physicians who are currently investigators or
- fellows.
The grant program is the second phase of AAFP's five-year, $7.72 million research initiative. In the first phase, geared to establishing research centers, 65 institutions submitted letters of intent. The task force will ask eight of the 65 for full grant proposals. The three institutions to be selected by Sept. 1 will receive up to $450,000 during the first two years of the four-year program, and up to $450,000 during a subsequent two-year period.
To obtain the task force's call for letters of intent for an advanced research training grant, use AAFP Express.
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