Education Pilot Grants

Educators from the four DHSA institutions are invited to submit five-page education/scholarly activity research or project proposals.

Geographic Scope: Delaware Health Sciences Alliance member institutions

Focus Areas:

• New, unique, inter-institutional educational programs
• Educational research questions

Eligibility: Educators from DHSA member institutions

Selection Criteria:

• Educational merit
• Potential to lead to applicability within DHSA and nationally
• Ability to demonstrate successful collaboration among institutions

Current Status: "We are not currently accepting pilot grant submissions"

Previous Pilot Grant Awardees:

• Instrument Development to Assess a Debriefing Facilitator Simulation Education of Healthcare Providers (Jennifer Saylor - UD, Susan F. Wainwright - TJU)
• Development of a certificate and Masters Health Informatics Program (Rosemary Kennedy - TJU, Cathy Wu - UD, Dennis M. Gross - TJU, Katie Lakofsky - UD, Anastasia Christianson - AstraZeneca, Anders E. Kolb - Nemours, William Wientraub - CCHS)
• Clinical Immersion Experience for Biomedical Engineering Students (Jill Higginson - UD, David Martin, Kristi Kiick, Dawn Elliott, Xinqiao Jia, Cole Galloway, Kelvin Lee)
• Establishing an Interdisciplinary Global Health Education Site for DHSA Partners (Omar Khan - CCHS)
• Development of a Post-Baccalureate Level Health Coaching Certificate Program (Deborah Ehernthal - CCHS, Michael Peterson - UD)

Application Requirements

• Format: Five-page proposal
• Content: Education/scholarly activity research or project proposals
• Status: Not currently accepting submissions