Medical Education Research Grants

The SGEA supports and encourages scholarship in medical education. To help its members participate in opportunities that provide educational scholarship, the SGEA will provide funding to initiate new educational research proposals. 

The SGEA will provide up to two $3000 research grants per year, to be used to create new opportunities for its members to initiate research projects.  The SGEA also seeks to promote collaborative projects across institutions, and sections (UGME, GME, CME, RIME), and seeks to stimulate the development of a community of educational scholars. Project proposals must be consistent with previously published criteria for scholarship and provide additional opportunities for others to build upon this work. 

For the inaugural 2005-06 SGEA Medical Education Research Grant funding cycle, the Southern Medical Association (SMA) graciously provided additional funding to support this activity.

2005-06 Grantees

Texas Tech University

Principal Investigator: Kathryn McMahon, PhD
Co-Principal Investigators: Betsy Goebel Jones, EdD, Tommie Farrell, MD
Grant Amount/Duration: $2,980, 2 years
Project Title: Assessment of Podcasting as a Delivery Mode for Teaching Note-Taking to First-Year Medical Students

University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston

Principal Investigator: Lee Grumbles, MD
Grant Amount/Duration: $1,950, 2 years
Project Title: Assessment of Residents' Skill in Recognizing and Reacting to Patient Existential Suffering