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Funding for Faculty Development Programs

If you are interested in obtaining information about funding for faculty development programs you may find the HRSA web site to be useful: www.hrsa.dhhs.gov/bhpr/grants.html. This site lists all the primary care training grants managed by the Bureau of Health Professions such as the predoc grants, residency training grants, establishment of department grants, and faculty development grants. (These grants are not all available to all the primary care disciplines, although those in faculty development are.)

National Faculty Development Opportunities

• The Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship Program at Michigan State University: www.msu.edu/unit/omerad/fellowship.

• The Division of Medical Education, Faculty Development Workshops, USC: www.usc.edu/hsc/medicine/med-ed/workshop.html.

• The Faculty Development Fellowship Program in General Internal Medicine at UNC: www.med.unc.edu/oed/gmintro.htm; or, for an overview of their office and programs, try the web page for the Office of Educational Development at www.med.unc.edu/oed/.

• The Faculty Development Center of Texas in Waco, Texas: direct general questions via e-mail to William K. Mygdal, EdD, Director, at wmygdal@texnet.net ; questions about program content and/or curriculum to Marty Kinard, EdD, Educational Coordinator at mjkinard@aol.com ; and questions on research instruction to Cindy Passmore, MA, Research Instructor at cpassmore@texnet.net .

• The Stanford Faculty Development Program: for information e-mail Georgette A. Stratos, PhD at gstratos@leland.stanford.edu .

• The Expert Preceptor Interactive Curriculum (EPIC), funded by The Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE): www.med.unc.edu/epic/ .

HRSA Training Grants

An officer of the BHPr presented a new structure for the HRSA training grants at the annual STFM meeting held spring, 1999, in Seattle. The kits aren't out on these yet, but we thought you would find the information the funding officer presented useful. If you have PowerPoint 97, you can view a copy of the presenter's slides: STFM.ppt

For more information on HRSA training grants, you may also go to their web site at www.HRSA.gov

Dr. Bill Mygdal, who has been part of a national advisory committee to HRSA, Division of Medicine on the training grant programs, has shared a report he presented on the types of faculty development programs that can be funded under federal grant legislation (Title VII). The report includes information on primary care clinician research fellowships, primary care master educator fellowships, primary care faculty leadership development fellowships/training, and community preceptor training. If you would like additional information about this report, please contact William K. Mygdal, EdD, Director, Faculty Development Center at Waco Texas - wmygdal@texnet.net