The Emergency Medicine Foundation (EMF) is pleased to announce an area of special emphasis for its fully funded grant categories in the 2011-2012 grant cycle. To better improve emergency patient care, illustrate value in emergency medicine research, and assist the practice of emergency physicians in a changing health care environment, the EMF Board of Trustees is emphasizing innovative health services and health policy research.
EMF has been committed to supporting emergency medicine research by helping young investigators. Grants currently fully funded by EMF are the EMF Health Policy Grant ($50,000), the EMF Fellowship ($150,000 over two years), and the EMF Career Development Grant ($50,000). For this grant cycle, EMF encourages applications with a focus on health services research, including but not limited to, health policy, practice, medical liability, regionalization, patient safety, and hospital utilization. However, it is important to note that EMF welcomes all applications, including research that is not health services-based.
“The Emergency Medicine Foundation has committed to supporting actionable research that directly impacts the care of our patients,” said EMF Board Chair Alexander Rosenau, DO, FACEP . “EMF will continue to underwrite a wide variety of research. The EMF Board of Trustees believes that this new era in health care reform is not only momentous, but pivotal. It demands serious investigation by the best that emergency medicine researchers have to offer in health services and health policy research.”
The Emergency Medicine Foundation also offers several co-sponsored grants, including:
EMF/SAEM Medical Student ($2,400 each, two available). www.saem.org
EMF/EMRA Resident Research ($5,000 each, three available). www.emra.org
EMF/ENAF Team Grant ($50,000, one available). www.ena.org
EMF is pleased to announce two new co-sponsored partnerships:
EMF/Medical Toxicology Foundation Resident Research ($5,000, one available). www.acmt.net
EMF/Emergency Medicine Patient Safety Foundation ($10,000, one available). www.empsf.org
Also new this year will be one directed research grant underwritten by Baxter in
sub-cutaneous infusion ($50,000, one available). www.hylenex.com
Grant applications will be available online in August 2010 at www.emfoundation.org. Grant deadline is January 5, 2011.