Faculty Development (FD) Educational Initiative Grant
The Faculty Development Program Educational Initiative Grant provides seed funding to support faculty in their academic roles to pursue educational initiatives, such as education scholarship projects and FD/CPD programs.
The FD Educational Initiative Grant Program, will provide up to four awards annually of $2,500 (up to two awards each in April and October) to support the creation of new educational initiatives. The intended audience for such programs is DFCM faculty in their roles as clinicians and teachers or family medicine learners.
Funds are not issued proactively and must be collected when the project is completed.
Application Deadline
April 30 and October 30
Criteria
The FD Awards and Funds Committee will give preference to candidate projects which meet the following criteria:
Aligns with the department strategic priorities
Incorporates education scholarship principles
Project plan must include:
A well-developed evaluation plan
A dissemination plan
A proposed budget
A letter of support is required from the relevant site/division head or program director, which should address how the funded activity will contribute to the academic life of the unit or program.
Preference may be given to junior faculty (less than 5 years since appointment)
Preference will be given to those who do not have access to other funding
Deliverables
This project must be implemented within 1 year
The project should be disseminated through a poster/paper/workshop at DFCM conference and/or other educational venues relevant to the project
Team members should be available to present at distributed sites if invited
A summary report of findings should be sent to the FD Awards and Funds Committee upon completion of the project
Eligibility
Faculty members appointed to the DFCM or a team with a DFCM faculty member
Faculty must not have received the award in the previous 2 years
Development of CME for healthcare providers is not covered, however evaluation or other scholarship within a CME program for faculty (CPD) will be considered
Note
Funds may be used for any of the following: research assistant, transcription, participant incentives (up to 15% of funding), dissemination (posters, publications etc), promotions (eg. advertising), or any other item(s) the committee deems acceptable
Submit all original receipts (electronically scanned receipts will not be accepted).
Funds cannot be used for speaker fees, gifts or as reimbursement to project leads.
Application Process
Complete an application form (fillable PDF—please ensure you save the file to your own computer).
Kindly mail all original receipts to:
C/O Megan Chow, Awards Administrator
Department of Family and Community Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
5th Floor, 500 University Avenue
Toronto, ON M5G 1V7 dfcm.awards@utoronto.ca
Selection
Adjudicated by the FD Awards and Funds Committee, chaired by the DFCM Awards, Grants & Funds Lead.
