3M Fellowships

Overview

3M is committed to supporting the education and training of health care professionals in the latest medical procedures and technologies. A Fellowship is an award that enables an individual medical professional to pursue study in his or her field or to introduce them to related fields. A fellowship often advances or enlarges the recipient’s area of interest or allows study in a different area extending his or her competence. The award will help support activities such as training, further study or research.

Eligibility

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* Fellowships may be provided to teaching institutions and their affiliates, community hospitals, medical societies and associations with a bona fide interest in advancing education in areas of interest to 3M.
* The institutions societies/associations must have a fellowship committee or selection process in place to determine the final recipient of the Fellowships.
* The recipient institution must have complete control over the content of the program, including the course of study, requirements and selection of Fellowship recipients.
* Amount of funding requested must be commensurate with activities to be performed by fellow, local cost of living, and any other expenses not considered overhead expenses of the recipient institution or society/association. 
* Requesting organization must have a bona fide fellowship committee or similar selection organization or process. Funding must commensurate with the activities to be performed by the fellow.

Ineligibility

* Fellowships will not be provided to individual preceptors or fellows, to charitable organizations of a particular physician’s or institution’s choice or to private physician practices.
* The fellow may not spend his or her time at 3M or provide 3M with company related services.
* Grant funds may not be used to support expenses for which the recipient organization would normally be responsible.

* 3M will not fund:
* Requests directly or indirectly conditioned on the requesting organization’s agreement to purchase, lease, recommend, use or arrange for the purchase or lease of 3M products.
* Requests where there is evidence of unduly influencing the decision of whether a particular institution will receive a grant or the amount of such grant by a member of 3M.
* Requests from individual HCPs, physician practices or patients.

* Requests from organizations listed on the Office of Inspector General’s List of Excluded Individual/Entities (OIG LEIE) or the General Services Administration Excluded Parties List System (GSA EPLS).