<p>DFM Scholarly Small Grant Program
Purpose of the Small Grant Program: The DFM Small Grant Program is designed to provide support to
faculty, residents, fellows and staff to pursue scholarly interests in order to contribute to the academic
culture of the department and develop their own career consistent with the mission and goals of the
DFM. For the purposes of this program, scholarly activities include the following categories*:
The scholarship of discovery that includes original research that advances knowledge;
The scholarship of integration that involves synthesis of information across disciplines, across topics
within a discipline, or across time;
The scholarship of application (also later called the scholarship of engagement) that goes beyond
the service duties of a faculty member to those within or outside the University and involves the
rigor and application of disciplinary expertise with results that can be shared with and/or evaluated
by peers;
The scholarship of teaching and learning that the systematic study of teaching and learning
processes. It differs from scholarly teaching in that it requires a format that will allow public sharing
and the opportunity for application and evaluation by others.
*"Scholarship Reconsidered" https://depts.washington.edu/gs630/Spring/Boyer.pdf
Scholarly activities generally fall under the following research framework:
Domain
Examples
Clinical
Human subjects, patient oriented, translational, QI, etc.
Educational
Curriculum, teaching, learning
Population Health
Health outcomes of a group of individuals
Community Health
Health outcomes of communities/neighborhoods/geography
Administration
Clinical and financial operations, financial sustainability
Informatics
Data collection, classification, storage, using computer networks
Who is eligible: Any DFM faculty member may apply. Residents, fellows and academic staff may apply
with a faculty sponsor. Requestors must have a DFM appointment of .25 FTE or more.
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