Submission deadline has passed.

Only proposals submitted electronically will be accepted for consideration for the APGO Medical Education Endowment Fund Grant Program.

All proposals and supporting documents MUST be submitted as one electronic (PDF/PDFX) file.

The proposal and supporting documents MUST be in the following order:

Proposal: 
No more than seven (7) pages (not including title page) IN THE FOLLOWING ORDER

Page 1: Title page includes:

• Title of Project (Use Title Case)
• Grant category for which you are applying and applicable theme(s) that your project will encompass
• Name, institution, department, email, and phone number for Principal Investigator #1 (primary point of contact)
• Full names, with suffices/degrees and titles, of all personnel involved including all investigators and collaborators on the team
  

Page 2: Abstract of no more than 250 words

Page 3-4: Itemized budget and budget justification (See below for what can and cannot be included)

Pages 5 – 8: List these headers for each of the following sections:

• Goals and objectives
• Statement of need/rationale for project
• Project description
• Detailed description of the proposed final product and explanation of how the final product can be used in the learning environment
• How outcomes will be evaluated
• Timeline, tasks, and individuals responsible for tasks
  

Supporting Documents (not included in 7-page proposal limit) must include the following:

• Letter of support from department chair on institutional letterhead
• Biographical sketch for each member of the research team using the NIH Biographical Sketch format

Budget
Budget must allocate funding for programming and/or content updates to ensure the deliverable is sustainable for a minimum of two years after completion of the project.

Faculty time, salary support, and fringe (at a reasonable rate) are permitted.

Overhead allocations, institutional indirect costs, the purchase of any equipment (computers, machinery, cameras, recording devices, etc.), or any other depreciating assets are not permitted.

Any unused funds must be returned to APGO within 90 days of APGO’s receipt of the final report.

Proposal Evaluation
Proposals will be screened initially to ensure applicants are current APGO individual members and all proposal documents, including the budget, are submitted as directed. Proposals with budgets exceeding the maximum grant amount, that include any non-permitted costs or mathematical errors will be disqualified during the initial screening process. The APGO Awards Selection Committee will only evaluate proposals that pass the initial screening.

Proposals will be evaluated in the following areas including, but not limited to:

• Evidence-based approach
• Feasibility to produce a sustainable product
• Project appropriateness, including educational component(s)
• Adaptability of deliverable as a teaching resource
• Team contributions to and participation in APGO activities as well as previous work of team members in ob-gyn medical education