Research-in-Training Grant
Wilderness Medical Society
Award: $5,000
To promote research on health and medicine in extreme or austere environments and to advance the field of wilderness medicine. Qualifications: Applicants must be residents and fellows of an accredited graduate medical education program or doctoral candidates working towards a PhD; applicants must be an active standard or premium member of the wms; have not received a wms grant in the past year (previous grant cycle); the project must: be well-defined; result in a substantive contribution to the field of wilderness and environmental medicine; be completed within 18 months of award notification; have regulatory paperwork (i.e., proof of irb approval and trial registry if indicated); completed within 12 months after the award submission deadline; include a timeline that considers covid-19. as of October 1 no additional extension will be provided as a result of covid-19; have a complete budget that follows the required format; be easily distinguishable as a separate component if a part of an existing research program. Selection criteria: Selection will be based on committee criteria; basis of the project's importance and relevance, feasibility, appropriateness of budget, and likelihood that the work will result in scientific publication; review the scoring table below: high 1 exceptional/ exceptionally strong with essentially no weaknesses; high 2 outstanding/ extremely strong with essentially no weaknesses; high 3 excellent/ very strong with some minor differences; med 4 very good/ strong but with numerous minor weaknesses; med 5 good/ strong but with at least one moderate weakness; med 6 satisfactory/ some strengths but also some moderate weaknesses; high 7 fair/ some strengths but with at least one major weakness; high 8 marginal/ a few strengths and a few major weaknesses; high 9 poor/ very few strengths and numerous major weaknesses; significance; investigator(s); innovation; approach; approach. How to apply: Applicants must be submit online application; requirements and format: double-spaced in 12-point standard font with 1-inch margins; submit application as a single pdf file including cover page; start each of the following sections as a new page: section i - summary; description (sections a-f), section ii - references, section iii - budget, section; iv - letters of reference, and section v - cv; significance; references; budget; letter(s) of support; curriculum vita; cover page: executive summary: (200-300 words). Focus: Health care services; Medicine.