FP Report -- February 1999 Request research training grants by April 2
If you'd like to increase your research skills and knowledge base and tackle research questions, let the Academy know.
You may qualify for an Advanced Research Training Grant.
The grant program is part of AAFP's five-year, $7.72 million research initiative. Eight AAFP members received training grants in 1998, and the second cycle of training grants just began. Winners may receive as much as $50,000 a year for one or two years.
Here's how to apply:
Contact Tom Stewart in the Scientific Activities Division at (800) 274-2237, Ext. 5538, for guidelines on submitting a concept paper. It should describe your plan to increase your training. The concept paper guidelines are also posted on AAFP's web site. Submit your paper by April 2.
The Task Force to Enhance Family Practice Research will request full proposals from selected applicants in June and will announce the 1999 recipients in September.
The training plans of the 1998 grant recipients run the gamut from advanced degree studies in public health to courses in biostatistics, time-series analysis, epidemiology, psychology of decision making, women's health and the methodology of clinical trials.
The recipients plan to apply their new knowledge to research on topics such as the efficacy of the family practice model of care, the impact of the health care context on doctor-patient/family relationships, adult survivors of childhood cancer, cardiovascular patients' use of alternative medicines, pain management during labor and interventions with low-income families concerning domestic violence.
"AAFP members' response to the research initiative has been overwhelmingly positive," said James Galliher, Ph.D., research affairs manager in the AAFP Scientific Activities Division. "There's a need to document what we know at a 'gut feeling' level: Family practice maintains and improves the health of the American people."
Winners receive
up to $50,000 a year
for one or two years.
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