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George Bennett Dissertation
Fellowships
Request for Proposals
The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making is pleased to announce a fellowship program to support dissertation and postdoctoral research in shared medical decision making. The grants are designed to support basic and applied research that can advance the field, and to attract scholars to the field of shared decision-making® in medical care. Through this program we hope to attract scholars from divergent fields including medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, public health, public policy, political science, economics, engineering, business, law, and related fields of study.
Eligibility
Applicants must be enrolled in a doctoral program in a graduate school where a doctoral dissertation is one of the requirements. Applicants must have completed all required coursework toward the doctorate and the dissertation proposal must be approved in order to submit a proposal to the Foundation.
Funding
Awards will provide $25,000 to be paid through each fellow’s school. Fellows may use stipends to cover living expenses, travel, tuition support, or research expenses. The Foundation requires an update of each fellow’s research progress at six months and at the conclusion of the fellowship period. Updates should not be longer than 10 pages.
Each fellow is eligible to receive a direct payment of an additional $2,000 upon publication of findings from the funded research in a peer-reviewed journal within two years of the fellowship period. Additionally, the Foundation will support travel to present the results of the dissertation at one national conference within two years of the fellowship period (up to $2000). Any publication or presentation of this research should include acknowledgment of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making for its support.
Format
The proposal narrative should not exceed 10 pages using 1.5 line spacing, exclusive of title page, abstract, references, CV, budget, budget justification, and supporting documents. Font size requirement is Arial 12 point. One inch margins are required on all sides.
Proposals should include the following:
Title Page:
Project Title
Name
Street address
Email
Phone
Institution
Degree program
Abstract: The abstract should summarize the proposal in 200 words.
Specific Aims/Research question(s): Specify the overall goal of the research as well as delineating the research questions that will be addressed.
Background and Significance: This section should include background of the research, any theories or hypotheses to be addressed, and the possible implications of the research.
Research Design and Methods: This section should explain the data collection plan, including who will be the participants/subjects, how data will be collected, what measures or tests will be used, outcomes, and analysis plan. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
References
Budget: The proposal should outline how the money is to be spent. If it is to be used as a stipend to cover living expenses, other sources of support should be described. If it is to be used to cover research expenses, those expenses should be described.
Supporting documents: You must include a letter from a dean, department head, or dissertation advisor certifying that you have completed all doctoral work except the dissertation (ABD status). We also require one letter of recommendation from a different person that addresses your interest in and ability to contribute to the field of shared decision-making®. Please also submit your CV including a brief biographical sketch listing your hometown, high school, and undergraduate institution.
Possible topics
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of topics. We welcome creative, thoughtful proposals that will allow us to advance the growing field of shared decision-making®.
- Literacy and numeracy as these topics relate to the communication of complex medical information and related information such as tradeoffs and uncertainty, communicator and target effects, comprehension of audiovisual presentations.
- Legal and economic implications of shared decision-making®.
- Psychosocial implications of shared decision-making®, including family, community, competing messages.
- Knowledge, values, and outcomes. What relationships exist among patient and physician knowledge, patient and physician values, patient satisfaction with their medical choice, clinical guidelines, and clinical outcomes?
- Acceptability of shared decision-making® by health care providers and patients.
- Learn about and document how medical decisions are currently made
- Develop and evaluate strategies for providing information and support to patients making decisions
- Basic research on how best to communicate information and understanding
- Support research on the impact of different approaches to making decision on various aspects of the medical care system, including patients, providers, costs of care, physician vulnerability to suits, what treatments are chosen, and the quality of the decisions that are made.
Submission
The proposal should be submitted by email or mail to the following contact. We encourage you to use email to submit your proposal to us as an attachment. Proposals including all supporting documents are due by December 3, 2007 at 5PM EST. Selected students will be notified on March 15, 2008 with funding to follow. The number of awards will be contingent on the availability of funds and the quality of the applications. A tentative deadline for the next round of funding will be May 1, 2008 with funding notification after August 15, 2008.
Research
Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
40 Court Street, Suite 300
Boston, MA 02108
GBproposals@fimdm.org fax: 617-367-0315
The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making does not discriminate because of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.
George
Bennett Postdoctoral Grants
Request for Proposals
The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making is pleased to announce a grant program to support research in shared medical decision making for post-doctorates and clinical fellows. The grants are designed to support a specific research project that can advance the field of shared decision-making® in medical care. Through this grant program we hope to attract scholars from divergent fields including medicine, psychology, sociology, anthropology, public health, public policy, political science, economics, engineering, business, law, and related fields of study.
Grants are intended to support an original project not previously funded. This grant is intended to supplement a post-doctoral stipend or clinical fellowship to provide support for a specific research project that would not otherwise be carried out. Each project should result in publication in a peer-reviewed journal. Particular consideration will be given to projects with the potential for development into a proposal for continued study.
Eligibility
Applicants must be no more than five years post completion of a doctoral degree or completion of a clinical residency. Grantees may not have faculty appointments.
Funding
Awards will provide a $25,000 grant to cover research expenses related to the specific project outlined in your proposal. The intention is to fund research projects that could not be carried out as well or at all without this funding. The Foundation requires a research project update at six months and at the conclusion of the grant period. Updates should not be longer than 10 pages.
Additionally, the Foundation will support travel to present the research results at one national conference within two years of the grant period (up to $2000). Any publication or presentation of this research should include acknowledgment of the Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making for its support.
Format
The proposal narrative should not exceed 10 pages using 1.5 line spacing, exclusive of title page, abstract, references, CV, budget, budget justification, and supporting documents. Font size requirement is Arial 12 point. One inch margins are required on all sides.
Proposals should include the following:
Title Page:
Project Title
Name
Street address
Email
Phone
Institution
Doctoral Degree
Abstract: The abstract should summarize the proposal in 200 words.
Specific Aims/Research question(s): Specify the overall goal of the research as well as delineating the research questions that will be addressed.
Background and Significance: This section should include background of the research, any theories or hypotheses to be addressed, and the possible implications of the research.
Research Design and Methods: This section should explain the data collection plan, including who will be the participants/subjects, how data will be collected, what measures or tests will be used, outcomes, and analysis plan. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
Dissemination and Future Research Plans: This section should include a plan for disseminating research results as well as a description of possible future research efforts that build on this project.
Reference
Budget: The proposal should outline the research budget. Please provide a brief explanation for each of the items included in the budget.
Supporting Documents: You must include documentation of a completed doctoral degree. We also require one letter of recommendation that addresses your interest in and ability to contribute to the field of shared decision-making®. Please also submit your CV including a brief biographical sketch listing your hometown, high school, undergraduate, and graduate institutions.
Possible topics
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of topics. We welcome creative, thoughtful proposals that will allow us to advance the growing field of shared decision-making®.
- Literacy and numeracy as these topics relate to the communication of complex medical information and related information such as tradeoffs and uncertainty, communicator and target effects, comprehension of audiovisual presentations.
- Legal and economic implications of shared decision-making®.
- Psychosocial implications of shared decision-making®, including family, community, competing messages.
- Knowledge, values, and outcomes. What relationships exist among patient and physician knowledge, patient and physician values, patient satisfaction with their medical choice, clinical guidelines, and clinical outcomes?
- Acceptability of shared decision-making® by health care providers and patients.
- Learn about and document how medical decisions are currently made
- Develop and evaluate strategies for providing information and support to patients making decisions
- Basic research on how best to communicate information and understanding
- Support research on the impact of different approaches to making decision on various aspects of the medical care system, including patients, providers, costs of care, physician vulnerability to suits, what treatments are chosen, and the quality of the decisions that are made.
Submission
The proposal should be submitted by email or mail to the following contact. We encourage you to use email to submit your proposal to us as an attachment. Proposals including all supporting documents are due by December 3, 2007 at 5PM EST. Selected students will be notified on March 15, 2008 with funding to follow. The number of awards will be contingent on the availability of funds and the quality of the applications. A tentative deadline for the next round of funding will be May 1, 2008 with funding notification after August 15, 2008.
Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
40 Court Street, Suite 300
Boston, MA 02108
GBproposals@fimdm.org fax: 617-367-0315
The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making does not discriminate because of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.
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Investigator
Initiated Grants
The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making is accepting investigator initiated proposals to support research in shared medical decision making. The grants are designed to fund basic and applied research that can advance the field of shared decision-making in medical care. Grants up to $100,000 including direct and indirect costs will be awarded. Studies requiring smaller amounts of funding are encouraged.
The purpose of these awards is to fund research that will contribute to our understanding of shared decision making. Research should address either the practical challenges of engaging patients in shared decision making or the theoretical basis of decision support and medical decision making. Researchers will have access to the full library of the Foundation’s programs, including updates as they are produced if interested in using FIMDM decision aids in their studies. The Foundation’s current library consists of decision aids in videotape (VHS) and DVD formats, accompanied by print booklets.
Application Guidelines
Proposals will be accepted from academic and community based organizations. Currently, proposals are reviewed and funded once a year. As a first step, a one-page Letter of Intent including: the specific aims of the research, a brief discussion of methodology, and expected deliverables is required no later than March 3, 2008. Full proposals will be solicited from successful letters of intent. Please send the Letter of Intent via email to IIG@fimdm.org.
Full proposals must be limited to 10 pages exclusive of appendices and received in electronic copy by 5:00 PM EDT on May 1, 2008 to IIG@fimdm.org. The Foundation expects to announce its awards by August 15, 2008. The funded projects will begin on October 1, 2008 and will usually expect to conclude by September 30, 2009.
Format for Full Proposals
The proposal narrative should not exceed 10 pages using 1.5 line spacing, exclusive of title page, abstract, references, biosketches, budget, and budget justification. Font size requirement is Arial 12 point. One inch margins are required on all sides.
Proposals should include the following:
Title Page: project title, investigators, affiliations, contact information (email, address, fax, phone) for principal investigator.
Abstract: The abstract should summarize the proposal in 200 words.
Specific Aims/Research question(s): Specify the overall goal of the research as well as delineating the research questions that will be addressed.
Background and Significance: This section should include background of the research, any theories or hypotheses to be addressed, and the possible implications of the research.
Preliminary Studies: This section should describe prior work done by the investors in this area.
Research Design and Methods: This section should explain the data collection plan, including who will be the participants/subjects and the general demographic characteristics of the population, how data will be collected, what measures or tests will be used, outcomes, and analysis plan. We welcome both quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
References
Budget: Please include a description of project staffing, current and proposed and attach biographical sketches for all investigators and key personnel. The Foundation pays indirect costs to funded organizations at the rate of 17% of total direct project costs.
Possible topics
This is not meant to be an exhaustive list of topics. Creative, thoughtful proposals that will advance the growing field of shared decision-making are strongly encouraged.
- Literacy and numeracy as these topics relate to the communication of complex medical information and related information such as tradeoffs and uncertainty, communicator and target effects, comprehension of audiovisual presentations.
- Legal and economic implications of shared decision-making.
- Psychosocial implications of shared decision-making, including family, community, competing messages.
- Basic research on how best to communicate information and understanding
- Support research on the impact of different approaches to making decision on various aspects of the medical care system, including patients, providers, costs of care, physician vulnerability to suits, what treatments are chosen, and the quality of the decisions that are made.
- Implementing decision support:
- How to identify patients who need decision support and deliver it in a timely way.
- How best to deliver decision support to patients.
- How to structure and time follow-up interactions with providers.
- How to identify and teach the clinical skills that will support patient-provider relationships that foster successful patient decision making;
- How to appropriately reimburse providers for time spent supporting patient choice.
- Impact of informing and involving patients in decisions needs to be documented. Important impacts include:
- Effects on patient outcomes.
- Effects on how patients feel about the process.
- Effects on providers and their staff.
- Effects on the specific decisions that are made and the cost of those decisions, if it is possible to measure.
- Measuring the quality of decision support and the effect on the quality of decisions:
- How to evaluate DAs accuracy, completeness and a balanced presentation of options needs.
- To evaluate data from patients about the decision support experience.
- To develop measures of the success of a decision support process.
- To determine how best to measure the quality of decisions.
Please contact us if you have questions. Mail, email, or fax Letters of Intent to:
Research
Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making
40 Court Street, Suite 300
Boston, MA 02108
IIGproposals@fimdm.org
phone: 617-367-2000
fax: 617-367-0315
The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making does not discriminate because of race, ethnicity, age, gender, religion, sexual orientation, or disability.
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