Eligibility
All principal/lead investigators must hold an active individual membership in the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics and maintain active individual membership throughout the grant period.

Awards Available
A total of $40,000 split between a maximum of two (2) grants.

Project Category

• Personal and Professional Development
  • Bread-and-butter medical education topics, the building blocks, the scaffolding of UME and the development of faculty/resident teachers to thrive in all their roles as educators, mentors, advisors, coaches, team leaders, etc.
• Curricular Innovations and Improvements
  • Out-of-the-box, creative, innovative, transformative approaches to UME in any area
• Opportunities and Challenges
  • Approaches to cultivating a positive learning environment or proposed solutions for difficult UME challenges

Project Requirements and Deliverables
Projects demonstrating a direct, measurable, and positive impact on ob-gyn health care education, particularly medical student education, will be most competitive for awards.

APGO is committed to working towards an inclusive and equitable future in ob-gyn and medical education. If applicable, please consider how your project and deliverable(s) would support inclusion and equity among learners or faculty, in health care, or in the learning environment.

Project deliverables must:

• Be sustainable within the initial grant budget for a minimum of two years
• Be submitted in electronic format to APGO along with a “How-to Guide” that includes a detailed step-by-step explanation of how the final product can be used
• Include in writing prominently on all deliverable materials: “Support for this project was made possible by the Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Medical Education Endowment Fund Grant Program.”

Written Reports
6-month Progress and Final Reports as outlined in Award Letter.

Project Team Coaching Calls
The project team must participate in an initial coaching/mentoring call with senior APGO leaders within 21 days of signing the grant agreement as well as a second call with senior APGO leaders after the receipt of the 6-month progress report.

Project Presentation
The grant team must also submit an abstract for the CREOG & APGO Annual Meeting that will take place in the year immediately following the submission of the final report, through the normal abstract submission process, and, if accepted, be prepared to present the project outcome at that meeting. Data collection may continue after abstract is submitted, if necessary, and final reports may be amended prior to any presentation. At a minimum, the project team should be prepared to present a poster at the Annual Meeting.

Publication Acknowledgment and Scholarship
Scholarship as the dissemination of the results of this project is highly encouraged and will be useful in promoting the professional development of awardees. Scholarship is a public act and there are many existing and emerging journals focused on medical education to which faculty can submit their work for publication. This includes, but is not limited to, electronic publication opportunities in MedEdPORTAL.