IMAP and the Macy Foundation are delighted to announce the winners of the 2011 Education and Training to Professionalism Initiative grant.

In the inaugural year this grant program, IMAP and Macy received 73 proposals. The proposed programs were impressive, and spoke to a broad spectrum of audiences: from medical students to residents to faculty members to inter-professional health care providers.

From such a strong applicant pool IMAP and Macy selected five winners and we are proud to announce their projects:

• Dr. Melissa Fischer, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education, University of Massachusetts Medical School: “Clinical Inter-Professional Professionalism Curriculum.”
• Dr. Ronald Fong, Director of the Family Medicine Residency Network, University of California, Davis, School of Medicine: “Development of a Physician Community Leadership Curriculum.”
• Dr. Anne Gill, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Medical Ethics and Director of Longitudinal Programs, Baylor College of Medicine: “Professionalism Tipping Points: Teaching Innovations in Clinical Medical Education.”
• Dr. Alicia Monroe, Professor of Family Medicine and Vice Dean of Educational Affairs, University of South Florida College of Medicine (in partnership with Lehigh Valley Health Network): “Tools and Strategies for Modeling and Reinforcing Professionalism.”
• Dr. Elza Mylona, Associate Dean of Curriculum Affairs and Faculty Development, Stony Brook University Medical Center School of Medicine: “Community Faculty Development on Medical Ethics and Professionalism: Designing and Implementing an Objective Structured Teaching Exercise.”

The breadth of selected programs is particularly notable: our grants will provide funding for inter-profession professionalism education, faculty development, a dual-campus program, a professionalism curriculum with a four-year scope, and a curriculum with a special emphasis on physician advocacy.

A copy of the 2011 RFA can be found here.