Grants for Medical Educators

Grants for Medical Educators are vital for advancing the field of medical education. These grants encourage and support research and innovation that address important problems, answer timely questions, and drive the practice of medical education forward. The Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) seeks to encourage and support such initiatives.

The Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) Grants

Through its grants, the Group on Educational Affairs (GEA) seeks to encourage and support research and innovation that address important problems, answer timely questions, and drive the practice of medical education forward. These grants aim to advance the work of all those engaged in improving academic medicine.

GEA Structure and Focus Areas

The GEA has various sections and regions, highlighting its broad reach within medical education:

• Regions: Central (CGEA), Northeast (NEGEA), Southern (SGEA), Western (WGEA)
• Sections:
  • Undergraduate Medical Education
  • Graduate Medical Education
  • Continuing Professional Development
  • Medical Education Scholarship Research and Evaluation
  • Staff Professionals Across the Continuum
  • Medical Education Senior Leaders

ABIM Foundation Grants

The ABIM Foundation provides funding to projects that are in alignment with our mission to advance the core values of medical professionalism as a force to improve the quality of health care. Our current grant programs support our larger initiatives by:

• Supporting practicing physicians who are advancing the ideals of medical professionalism.
• Enhancing or expanding existing practices designed to build trust in the health care system by identifying and countering misinformation in health care and public health.
• Supporting programs that incorporate health equity into internal medicine education and training.

Building Trustworthiness by Addressing Uncertainty in Medicine Grant Program

To develop a learning experience and assessment methodology to help clinicians thoughtfully embrace and communicate clinical uncertainty in ways that build trust, the ABIM Foundation, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, and the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation awarded $360,000 in grants in 2023. The funded projects include:

1. A multidisciplinary team of experts from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, the University of California – San Francisco, and the Australian National University will create a repository of existing resources and assessments focused on communicating about uncertainty in clinical settings, develop new training and assessment materials to supplement and connect the resources identified in the repository, and support a learning ecosystem by pilot testing the materials for different audiences at multiple training sites.
2. The Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine will create a competency-based curriculum to teach learners the knowledge, skills and attitudes they need to communicate effectively about uncertainty. It will include hands-on learning methods to help medical students and trainees communicate and collaborate with patients and with clinicians from across the care team.
3. Arts Practica, an online educational program, and The Nocturnists, an award-winning medical storytelling program, will create and disseminate a six-episode podcast series. “Uncertainty in Medicine” will blend storytelling, conversation and education to provide a provocative listening experience that will help clinicians better handle uncertainty.

Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity Grant Program

Together with partners invested in improving health care, we have supported 75 projects intended to promote trust and create a more equitable health system through our Building Trust: Advancing Health Equity Grant Program. To help correct the scourge of medical misinformation which experienced a resurgence during the pandemic, especially among Black and Latino populations, the ABIM Foundation awarded $110,000 in grants in 2022. Factchequeado and Cuidate/Take Care Annapolis were selected as the first- and second-place winners, respectively, by an expert panel of judges.

Case Study: Factchequeado

Factchequeado seeks to combat Spanish-language misinformation in the United States, with a special focus on health care and public health. It has been formed by two leading organizations that are devoted to fact-checking in the Spanish-speaking world: Maldita.es (Spain, founded 2014) and Chequeado (Argentina, founded 2010). It creates original, verified content in Spanish that responds to false claims that are circulating in Spanish-speaking communities. Until the launch of Factchequeado, there was no organized effort to address Spanish-language misinformation in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the need, as, for example, rumors spread that vaccination centers were a trap to deport immigrants. The project has a particular focus on WhatsApp, which Spanish speakers commonly use for news consumption and sharing. With support from the ABIM Foundation, Factchequeado will create the capacity to monitor and respond to misinformation claims that are trending on WhatsApp. This will enable them to push high-quality information into an arena where misinformation is spreading, rather than depending on individuals to seek out c...

Grant Awardees for Advancing Health Equity

Year	Awarded Grants	Focus
2024	Not specified	Reimagining Professionalism: Hope in a Shifting Medical Landscape
2023	Not specified	Reframing Trust – A Path to Address Misinformation
2022	$110,000	Fact or Fiction – Strategies for the Misinformation Age
2021	Not specified	Pursuing Trust – Striving for Equitable Health Care
2020	Not specified	Building Trust & Health Equity
2019	Not specified	[Re]Building Trust – A Path Forward
2018	Not specified	[Re]Building Trust