NIDA Mentor-Facilitated Training (MFT) Award in Substance Use Disorders Science Dissemination Grant

Overview

SAEM Foundation

The core purpose of the SAEM Foundation is to improve health by investing in academic emergency medicine career development, research, and education. The assets of the SAEM Foundation currently total over $11 million, making it the largest foundation for emergency care. To date, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and the SAEM Foundation have provided more than $12.5 million to fund over 540 grants for emergency medicine researchers and educators.

NIDA Mentor-Facilitated Training (MFT) Award in Substance Use Disorders Science Dissemination Grant

Accelerating the dissemination of substance use disorder (SUD) research, particularly opioid use disorder (OUD) research findings and encouraging the implementation of evidence-based practices in health care settings, is a priority for the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and represents the core mission of the NIDA Clinical Trials Network Dissemination Initiative (NIDA CTN DI).

The NIDA CTN DI uses collaboration between expert clinicians, clinical researchers, experienced trainers, and NIDA staff to rapidly disseminate research findings from NIDA’s vast scientific portfolio to a variety of collaborators, including policymakers, program administrators, and frontline prevention and treatment providers.

The SAEMF has partnered with NIDA CTN to administer NIDA Mentor-Facilitated Training Awards, a key component of the NIDA CTN DI that supports the development of expertise in SUD, especially OUD, among trainees from a variety of disciplines, through the completion of a mentor-supervised project.

Goals

The goals of the award are:

* To promote the dissemination of SUD research findings, thereby improving knowledge and the utilization of evidence-based SUD treatment among health care providers,
* To facilitate the professional growth and development of future clinician leaders in SUD management.
* The budget consists of up to $10,000 for the awardee stipend and $2,000 for the mentor stipend.
* Funds may be used for educational and resource materials/courses related to your project and travel to the SAEM Annual Meeting and the NIDA CTN Annual Steering Committee Meeting.

Purpose of the Award

The award will:

* Engage the awardee in a one-year mentored experience that provides an opportunity to learn about key areas of SUD and SUD treatment strategies and the effective dissemination of existing research findings. The year-long experience culminates in the completion of an educational/quality improvement/dissemination project that addresses educational or knowledge gaps that the awardee identifies.
* Foster interest in either a clinical career providing evidence-based management of SUD in medical settings or pursuing their own research interests in the field in the future.

Awardee projects will be shared at group virtual meetings as well as at the annual NIDA CTN Steering Committee meeting. The awardee is strongly encouraged to develop a manuscript of their project for submission for publication in a peer-reviewed journal after completion of the MFT year.

Project Guidelines and Examples

For the Mentor-Facilitated Training Award, NIDA and the SAEMF encourage clinically relevant applications with a focus on treatment of SUDs and the dissemination of research findings of evidence-based practices into clinical settings. To this end, awardees will develop and execute a plan designed to increase their own clinical knowledge of the management of SUD, especially OUD. They will then design and complete a project aimed at the dissemination of existing SUD treatment research findings.

Examples of appropriate activities and projects:

* Identify curriculum training gaps in SUD and choose research findings and/or products developed by NIDA or other professional associations that could bridge such gaps.
* Disseminate the identified information through a series of lectures, seminars, etc.
* For example, a previous awardee identified a lack of the use of buprenorphine in Emergency Departments (EDs) and designed a curriculum for ED physicians and nurses that presented evidence-based information on the benefits of starting buprenorphine in the ED across the hospitals for the training program.
* Develop materials that could be used for quality improvement or integration of an evidence based approach or process in the management of SUD in a medical setting and conduct activities for quality improvement.
* For example, a previous awardee identified that stigma impacts on the quality of care for persons with substance use disorders. This project included ways that stigma can be addressed using evidence-based materials.
* Analyze de-identified data from completed clinical trials such as those found on the NIDA Data Share website to inform dissemination efforts; characterize the availability of data on substance use or practice patterns; identify gaps in the provision of evidence-based practices; and identify needs for dissemination.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

* Applicant Eligibility
* The applicant must be enrolled in health care professional training or a trainee in an approved clinical residency or a clinical fellowship training program.
* Mentorship
* The mentor should have experience in dissemination and implementation science or clinical treatment and/or research experience in the field of substance use disorders.
* Institutional Support
* The applicant assumes responsibility for conducting the project and the mentor for supervising the work and advancing the education of the applicant and associates.
* The application must show that adequate and appropriately equipped space will be available during the funding period.

Ineligibility

* Applicants must not have a National Institutes of Health (NIH) research fellowship, an NIH research award, or a NIH career development award.
* Previous MFT awardees are not eligible to receive another award.
* This award cannot be used to conduct basic or clinical research studies or trials.