QIPS Grants
Quality Improvement and Patient Safety (QIPS) Grants are to support initiatives targeted at improving any of the dimensions of healthcare quality (i.e. safety, timeliness, efficiency, equitability, effectiveness or patient-centeredness), on a local or broader level. Projects submitted for the QIPS Grant Competition must utilize QI methodology (e.g., Model of Improvement, Plan-Do-Study-Act cycles, rapid iterative improvements). These are two available grants, valued at $2,500 each.
Applicant Criteria
The principal investigator (PI) and Co-PI (if applicable) must both be current CAEP members at the time of application and when receiving grant funds.
The application requires the submission of the CV of the PI and co-PI (if applicable).
Trainees from the following programs are eligible to be named as the PI:
A Canadian EM residency program
A PhD or post-doctoral trainee with EM-focussed research
A trainee within a Canadian EM post-residency subspecialty fellowship program.
If the PI is a trainee, they should be mentored by an experienced researcher who should be identified as the co-PI
PI/Co-PI’s are responsible for all aspects of the project and grant, including coordinating financial and administrative aspects, as well as leading the intellectual direction of the proposed activities.
Either the PI or the Co-PI must satisfy all of the following:
1 – Be eligible to hold research funds at their institution (which must be within Canada); and,
2 – Be eligible to apply to their local research ethics board as a PI;
3 – Be a clinician working within the field of emergency medicine or a non-clinician researcher whose focus is emergency medicine
*Area of fellowship training must be mentioned in the required letter of support from the fellowship director.
Questions?
Please contact our Academic & Research Coordinator, Ginette Snook, at gsnook@caep.ca.