The Picker Gold Graduate Medical Education Challenge Grant Program supports the research and development of successful patient-centered care initiatives and best practices in the residency training environment.
Who is Eligible?
Faculty from any graduate medical education program that is accredited by the ACGME or one of the Canadian certification colleges (CFPC, RCPSC).
How to Apply
The process for the 2019-2021 Picker Gold Challenge Grants for Residency Training is now CLOSED. Please sign up for our News & Notes e-newsletter to be alerted when Picker Gold and other grant applications are open.
Reporting Requirements
Interim Report
- State original objective/goals of project
- Describe project activities to date
- Explain challenges/obstacles you have faced to date, and plan for overcoming challenges
- Outline plan for next reporting period
- Provide analysis, evaluation tools and early results
- Provide original budget vs. actual to date
- Explain item variances over 5%, and/or overall project variance greater than 5%
Final Report
- State original objective/goals of project
- Describe project activities and accomplishments to date, include evaluation techniques and tools, results and conclusions
- Were the objectives and goals met? Please explain
- Identify the impact of this project including numbers for participants and beneficiaries and any publications
- Was your project promoted at your institution? Please describe how and to what audience.
- Are there plans to continue the project? Can/should a similar project be replicated at your institution or elsewhere? How will this happen?
- Attach copies of printed materials, surveys, PowerPoint presentations, photographs, fliers or other materials created for project
- Include a 250-word (approximate) summary of the project and its accomplishments, along with contact name and email for inclusion on our website
- Provide original budget vs. actual budget
- Explain item variances over 5%, and/or overall project variance greater than 5%
Recipients
2019-2021 Picker Gold Challenge Grants for Residency Training
Nationwide Children’s Hospital
Ashley Fernandes, MD, PhD
Using a Team-Based Learning Curricula to Teach and Assess Patient-Centered, Humanistic Ethics for Pediatric Residents and Health Professionals
Johns Hopkins
Raquel Greer, MD, MHS
Development and Implementation of a Longitudinal Community Engagement Curriculum to Enhance Residents’ Capacity to Address the Social Determinants of Health
Read our announcement to learn more about their projects.
History
The Gold Foundation partnered with the Picker Institute in 2008 to create this program because both organizations recognized the critical importance of bringing the patient voice into residency training. It is in the hospital setting where doctors truly learn how to practice their profession.
The Picker Institute fostered a broader understanding of the concerns of patients and other healthcare consumers, and promoted the theoretical and practical changes needed to facilitate a more patient-centered approach. The Institute, which sponsored related research and education, ceased operations on Dec 31, 2012, and transitioned the Graduate Medical Education Challenge Grant Program into The Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s care.
Harvey Picker’s description of the fundamentals of patient-centered care — “understanding patients’ values, preferences and expressed needs” — will remain touchstones as The Arnold P. Gold Foundation continues to sponsor challenge Grants at teaching hospitals across the country.