CGEA Call for Mini-Grant Proposals!

The Central Group on Educational Affairs (CGEA) seeks proposals that will promote scholarship in medical education and advance the community of scholarship within the Central region. A maximum award of $7,000 is available for multiple-institution projects and $5,000 for single-institution projects. Projects must address the education of medical learners; mini-grants will not fund patient/parent education. The CGEA welcomes proposals for any systematic scholarship project, including scholarship of discovery (traditional research that discovers new knowledge) as well as projects with systematic approaches to the scholarship of teaching, application, integration, and/or engagement. This includes scholarly innovations. Consistent with the requirements of scholarship, all funded projects must be collaborative and investigatory in nature, and their results must be made public, available for peer review, and freely available for others to build upon.

We will post an announcement when the next call for proposals is open! 

All other inquiries about the mini-grant program should be addressed to the MESRE Chair, Jeffrey Cheung (cgeamesre@gmail.com) AND the CGEA Chair Kamran Mirza (kamran.mirza@lumc.edu).

CGEA Team Up Initiative - 2023 

CGEA MESRE has run a program called Team Up for Scholarship Collaboration for the last two years. Based on members’ support and positive feedback, we will run the program again. Given the collaborative nature of medical education research and scholarship, including innovation and the importance of social networks, the program aims to facilitate research or innovation project collaborations among members. This year, we extend this program to include any GEA members (NEGEA, SGEA, and WGEA). The program aims to provide opportunities:

• for medical educators to form a multi-institutional research team for collaboration; 

• for junior medical education researchers to join teams of researchers; 

• for senior/experienced medical education researchers to help and mentor junior members; and

• for research teams to identify mentors (research coaches).

We have reached the SECOND part of the process. If you submitted an idea, you should have received a message from Heeyoung Han to set up a short meeting to discuss. Please see your email messages for a subject of: "Team Up fo Scholarship Collaboration." 

The program is following several stages as below: 

1. Any GEA members have submitted research ideas. 

2. CGEA MESRE (Past Chair, Current Chair, and Chair-Elect) provided MESRE consultation through CGEA Virtual Office Hours to help the project idea providers refine their project ideas. 

3. Once having a list of project ideas, CGEA MESRE Past-Chair (Heeyoung Han, PhD) sent out a sign-up form to the CGEA members. Then,GEA members signed up for a project group(s).

4. A formal announcement of research teams will be distributed as soon as formed. Once groups are formed, each project leader contacts the members to proceed with the project idea. 

5. CGEA MESRE consultation will be provided through CGEA Virtual Office Hours for teams’ project progress. 

All inquiries about this initiative should be addressed to the CGEA MESRE Past-Chair, Heeyoung Han (hhan@siumed.edu). Thank you. When then next Team Up is available, we will post updated dates and instructions/links!