Building Trust & Equity in IM Training Grant

The sponsors are interested in funding two categories of projects:

• Education-driven proposals that focus on providing training, skill and competency acquisition with the goal of promoting trustworthiness through equitable outcomes
• Proposals that focus on engineering care processes to promote trustworthiness through equity

Examples of the kinds of projects that could be funded under this program include:

• Training programs that incorporate DEI, and in particular those that employ inter-professional education best practices
• Innovative curricular approaches, particularly those that are inter-professional
• Quality improvement programs and program evaluations that advance trustworthiness through health equity
• Ideas on building trustworthiness and psychological safety among teams, including an intentional focus on recognizing bias, lack of diversity and the barriers to being heard due to hierarchical structures
• Innovative approaches to create collaborative partnerships between health systems and community-based service organizations in under-resourced communities
• Trust and a sense of belonging within racially/ethnically diverse inter-professional groups
• Approaches that foster and support diverse and equitable pathways into medicine and faculty and leadership positions

(This is not intended to be an exhaustive list.)

Projects will be evaluated based on their:

• Novelty and innovativeness of the proposed intervention
• Utilization of collaborative relationships with community-based organizations
• Feasibility and potential impact, and description of the approach that will be used to evaluate impact
• Replicability and scalability
• Project leaders’ ability and commitment to communicate their project to external audiences
• Support in existing literature/evidence
• Integration of multiple disciplines on project team
• Presence of intentional focus on building trust and equity within inter-professional teams
• Whether the proposed project fits within and contributes to a robust inter-professional education program
• Relevance to ambulatory care

Throughout the project, grantees will receive advice through individual and group consultations from a quality improvement and implementation expert as well as coaching in study design if needed. Grantees will be expected to participate in a learning network that will meet approximately four times annually.

(Applicants who do not receive grants will still have the option of participating in the network.)

We expect to provide larger ($20,000) grants and smaller ($10,000) grants under this program. Larger grants will be for two years; smaller grants can be for either one or two years. Please indicate the level of funding and (if you are seeking $10,000) the length of grant you seek in your letter of intent.