Announcements

Health Professions Education Grants Available through CAME Foundation

Health Professions Education Grants - Available

As announced at CCME 2019 in Niagara Falls, the CAME Foundation is launching three new grants to join the CAME Wooster Family Grant! Submissions for the new Health Professions Education Grants are now open

Letters of Intent DueSeptember 6, 2019 at 1700 EST

Opportunities for peer-reviewed grant support in Health Professions Education are limited. Learners and faculty at all stages, who have new projects, are particularly challenged in obtaining support.

Call for applications for the 2020 ADVANCE-UP Program!

ADVANCE-UP: Academic Development, Advocacy, Networking, Coaching and Education for Underrepresented Populations

The School of Medicine Office for Faculty is now accepting applications for the ADVANCE-UP Faculty Development Program. This is a year-long program that will provide in-depth opportunities for academic development, mentoring, and networking for faculty from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds. 

Call for Abstracts: Opening Doors to Transform Nursing Education

The Duke University School of Nursing’s Institute for Educational Excellence (IEE) is currently accepting abstract submissions for podium/oral presentations as well as Lightening Rod E-Poster Presentations at the 9th Pursuing Radical Transformation in Nursing Education conference. This year’s theme is Opening Doors to Transform Nursing Education. The conference will take place on April 23 and 24, 2020 at the Duke University School of Nursing in Durham, North Carolina.

PRESENTATIONS

2019-2020 Certificate Program Participants Selected

The 2019-2020 Certificate Program in Health Professions Education & Teaching kicked off it’s fourth year earlier this month. This 12 month program allows faculty and professional staff to enhance skills as educators and researchers. Participants take courses based on the AHEAD educator competencies throughout the year and complete an educational research project.

Congratulations to those selected for this year’s program: 

  • Laura Enyedi, MD

  • Monique Ford, BSN, RN

  • Ralph Hachem, MD

DUSON Named NLN Center of Excellence

Duke University School of Nursing has been designated as an NLN Center of Excellence for the 2019-2023 term! 

The National League for Nursing is proud to offer the Centers of Excellence program as a way to recognize schools that have demonstrated a commitment to excellence and invested resources over a sustained period of time to distinguish themselves in a specific area related to nursing education.  It is an honor to count Duke University among the outstanding group of recipients of this designation. 

Find Funding With myRESEARCHhome

The Funding Opportunities widget is now available in myRESEARCHhome. This new tool recommends relevant internal and external funding opportunities based on your research profile. Opportunities can be sorted with filters, saved or removed with relevancy feedback, and shared with others. Recommendations are updated in real time as new funding cycles open. Experience the new widget and all myRESEARCHhome has to offer at mrh.duke.edu.

Center for Interprofessional Education & Care - Seeking Assistant Directors

We are pleased to announce an opportunity for faculty with a passion for interprofessional education and care at Duke Health.    The new Center for Interprofessional Education and Care aims to expand opportunities for learners and clinicians throughout the health system to enhance their skills in IP practice.  In order to achieve this mission, the Center has committed resources to support faculty time to work with the Center Director, Mitch Heflin, as Assistant Directors to develop and evaluate new programs.  Various areas of focus will include preclinical and clini

2019 AHEAD Grant Funding Available

Background: We are pleased to offer project funding for members of Duke AHEAD. This funding mechanism is intended to provide critical start up for pilot research or funding for innovative projects that will generate new evidence, new ideas, and/or new approaches for improving health professions education. Our purpose is to support the vision, creativity, ingenuity, and scholarly works of the educators and educational researchers in the Duke AHEAD community.

2019 Duke AHEAD Fellows - Application Open

The fellow member level recognizes educators who are earlier in their careers as health professions educators but who are already demonstrating the potential for major and on-going contributions to health professions education within Duke Health or the professions.