Inside Duke Medicine
‘Innovation celebration’ highlights funding for GME projects
posted September 20th, 2010GME program directors, faculty, educators, residents, fellows and officials of the GME office gathered Sept. 15 at the Doris Duke Center in Sarah P. Duke Gardens to celebrate the many projects made possible by an endowment to encourage GME innovation that was created in 2007 by Chancellor Victor J. Dzau, M.D., and Duke University Health System.
The fund allows program directors, faculty and trainees to develop sustainable short-term initiatives to enhance Duke’s learning environment and contribute to quality patient care.
Funding is up to $100,000 per year for one- to three-year projects, with the option to re-apply for an additional three-year period. It is anticipated that, with careful stewardship, money will be available for at least 10 years.
The goal is to reward excellence in teaching, assessment and program improvement by encouraging innovation and collaboration. The intent is to provide sufficient seed money to fund innovative programs/curricula/assessment/faculty development -- which ideally facilitates the program(s) competitiveness to obtain additional resources (grants, foundations, donors). Proposals must include a clear plan for measuring educational impact and sustainability. Grantees must be willing to present findings internally to Duke colleagues as well as in peer reviewed venues.
In all, 63 projects have been funded out of 83 submitted proposals. Of the projects funded, all 13 GME departments are represented. Thus far, 16 projects have been successfully completed.
Many of the projects involve program/department collaboration, in addition to collaboration with the School of Business Health Sector, the GME Office, Hospital Administration and other departments/entities within and outside of Duke.
These projects will continue to reach within and beyond the Duke community, as articles have been submitted to peer review venues and posters have been displayed at local and national conferences.