ADE Medical Education Research Grant Program

Created by the Academy in 2004, the focus of the Small Grants Program is the stimulatation of research studies targeting the improvement of medical education and training among medical students, residents & fellows, PhD candidates, and post docs. Each abstract title below is linked to the document.

 

2004

2005

2006

2007

Total

Proposals submitted

20

17

11

12

60

Proposals funded

5

3

3

2

13

Success rate

25%

18%

27%

17%

22%


Year

Title

PI

Area

Awarded$

#Years

2007

Passive versus active student learning: comparing the effectiveness of three teaching formats for learning and long term retention of lecture material by medical students

Mary Kate Worden, PhD

UME

$ 19,552

2

2007

Enhancing students' ability to recognize clinical clues using the "War Games" medical simulation

Jeffrey S. Young, MD

UME

$ 49,806

2

2006

Painful conversations: 
How to learn to say what no one wants to hear

Daniel Becker, M.D 

UME

$ 30,000

2

2006

Physical simulators for training clinical palpitation skills

Marcus Martin, M.D.

UME

$ 50,000

2

2006

Professionalism in tomorrow's healthcare system

Donna Chen, M.D.

UME

$ 20,000

1

2005

Study to evaluate didactic learning in a family medicine clerkship

Anne Mounsey, M.D.

UME

$ 22,500

2

2005

Measuring resident performance in the NICU: how much experience is required to interpret the bedside flowsheet?

Patrick Brown, M.D.

GME

$ 20,000

2

2005

Evaluating competence in system-based practice and practice-based learning

John Voss, M.D.

GME

$ 50,000

2

2004

Medical error training for housestaff

Margaret  Plews-Ogan, M.D.

GME

$ 25,000*

2

2004

Is web-based learning an effective alternative to traditional lecture-discussions?

John  Gazewood, MD

UME

$ 27,041

2

2004

Empathy and emotional intelligence

Julia Connelly, MD

UME

$ 8,000

1

2004

Assessment of predictors of participation in rural practice

John Owen, Ph.D

UME

$ 17,948

1

2004

Pediatric home visit program

Nancy Payne, M.D.

GME

$ 22,000*

2

*Cost-sharing from Innovations in GME grant program