Innovations Fund

The Academy of Medical Educators is pleased to announce the pledge of $10,000 by the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell for its request for medical education innovation proposals that advance medical education and ultimately patient care. Proposals that address compelling issues in undergraduate, graduate, continuing, and interprofessional education will be considered.

The Academy’s Innovations Program supports faculty who take a scholarly approach to the development of new curricula or curricular elements, focused faculty development initiatives, evaluation of pedagogical methods, and learner assessment. Open to all faculty members, these intramural funds serve as a catalyst for the development of projects that address the constantly changing ways in which health professionals are educated and health care is practiced. Innovations Awards are for one year, with the expectation that, if successful, the curricular innovation will be sustained and disseminated within and beyond Hofstra Northwell.

The goals of The Lawrence G. Smith Fund for Innovation in Medical Education include the following:

• Provide ‘seed support’ to execute an innovation project that advances medical education
• Position recipients to compete for funds from extramural agencies

• The Principal Investigator must hold a faculty position at the Zucker School of Medicine
• Members of the AME may serve as Principal Investigators, collaborators, mentors, or consultants. However, AME applicants will be recused from serving on the Research Subcommittee for that academic year
• Junior faculty are encouraged to apply

The AME subcommittee on medical education scholarship will review all proposals and awards will be made on the basis of

• Significance of proposal and potential impact of findings to improving medical education
• Quality and rigor of proposed research approach
• Likelihood that the proposed research program will be completed