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Current News:
June 2008:
September 1, 2008 Deadline for the Fall Cycle for the
METI Fund for Research in Surgical Team-Based Training
The METI fund for research is designed to further investigation led by surgeon principal investigators at institutions with surgical training programs. The grants awarded are in the range of $15,000 to $30,000 and grant funding may not exceed $40,000. Grants must focus on key research questions involving team-based training in the surgical setting and will not be awarded to fund development or maintenance of simulation centers, development of training scenarios, or purchase of simulators. The research questions should be theory-based, not just practical evaluations of the use of scenarios or other simulations. The goal is to provide a scientific foundation for integrating team-based training into the curriculum. For example, little has been done in the area of development of measurement instruments for assessment of team-based training. Since the grants are not funding scenario development, research projects should utilize previously validated scenarios or the proposal should present some pilot data as evidence that scenarios to be utilized have been pilot tested. While it is assumed that most of these grant proposals will utilize adult human simulators, this is not a requirement for funding. Research produced by this grant process must be submitted to either the ACS or the APDS for presentation at one of their annual meetings. Grants will be reviewed by a five member ACS/APDS Educational Research Committee. Proposals will be evaluated with respect to originality, significance, methodology, investigator qualifications, feasibility, facility/resources, budget and relationship to the goals of the funding priorities. Two funding cycles for grant requests are available with grant deadlines of March 1 and September 1.
Grant Application Format
The following sections are required for grant submission and should be clearly identified.
1) Title page, including correspondence information
2) Executive summary (one page or less)
3) Letter of support from Department Chair
4) IRB letter. A letter from the Chair of the Institutional Review Board of the appropriate organization should be submitted showing the project has been reviewed and approved.
5) Statement of the problem and the research question
6) Literature review (three pages or less)
7) Specific aims/hypothesis (one page or less)
8) Methodology (four pages or less)
9) Timeline
10) Bibliography
11) Budget and justification
12) Abbreviated curriculum vitae of principal and co-investigators (no more than three pages per investigator)
Six copies of the grant should be submitted to:
Gary Dunnington, M.D.
Professor and Chair of Surgery
SIU School of Medicine
Department of Surgery
P.O. Box 19638
Springfield, IL 62794-9638
May 2008--Fundamentals of Surgery Curriculum (FSC)
This message is to let you know that The American College of Surgeons Division of Education has posted a sample Fundamentals of Surgery Curriculum (FSC) scenario on the FSC Page in the ACS Web Site. The scenario is representative of a large group of virtual patients presented for the learner to evaluate and recommend initial therapeutic interventions. If you have not yet had the opportunity to preview the FSC in person, we hope you will take a few minutes to view this sample scenario. If you would like to discuss the FSC in more detail, please feel free to contact Dr. Patricia J. Numann (numannp@upstate.edu), who is the Curriculum Director, or to contact me.
You can find the scenario at: http://www.facs.org/education/fundsurgerydemo.html
If you are interested in taking advantage of the Advance Purchase Plan for your 2008 PGY-1s, please contact Ms. Shana Cobb (scobb@facs.org) before 4:00 pm Central time on Friday, May 2. Shana will send you information about the Advance Purchase Plan and a form to use to start the enrollment process.
Save the Date: 2009 Surgery Education Week
Salt Lake City
28 April--2 May 2009
Joint APDS-ASE Day 30 April 2009
Link to Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS) www.flsprogram.org
Recognizing the importance of improving surgical technical skills and enhancing patient safety, Covidien, a leading manufacturer of medical devices and supplies, has created The Covidien Educational Fund. This generous gift supports the introduction of the FLS Educational program into North American residency and fellowship training. Through this grant, FLS is available to program directors to use as a standardized educational tool for teaching and verification of learning of their trainees. The Covidien Educational Fund brings no-cost training and testing directly to over 250 surgical residency programs in the United States and Canada, reaching thousands of surgeons-in-training over a three-year period, as well as MIS/HPB/colorectal fellowships for one year.
--Lisa Jukelevics
Director, FLS Program
SAGES
11300 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 600
Los Angeles, CA 90064
310.437.0544 ext 115
310.437.0585 fax
New way to pay APDS Dues: Click here
APDS Resource for Independent Study
Email Arnold Tabuenca at atabuenca@llu.edu to receive your password and register your residents to gain access to this Basic Science Course and the Comprehensive Clinical Review in General Surgery. Additional lectures are being added regularly.
