Click here for a copy of last year’s Picker/Gold Challenge Grant Program to support GME programs focused on patient-centered healthcare and/or humanism in medicine.
The purpose of the Picker Institute/Gold Foundation Challenge Grant Program is to support the research and development of successful patient-centered care initiatives and best practices in the education of our country’s future practicing physicians.
Children’s National Medical Center
Principal Investigator: Dale Coddington, MD, MA
Project Title: Caring for Children with Special Health Care Needs: An Online Medical Home Professionalism Curriculum for Pediatric Residents
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Principal Investigator: Kristen G. Schaefer, MD
Project Title: Teaching Patient‐ and Family‐Centered Care in the Setting of Life‐Threatening Illness: A Resident Outpatient Palliative Care Rotation
Geisinger Medical Center
Principal Investigator: Michelle Thompson, MD
Project Title: Employing a Patient-Centered Approach to Develop a Medical Passport to Improve Transition and Educate Health Care Providers
Jacobi Medical Center
Principal Investigator:Kenneth Rivlin, MD, PhD
Project Title: Experiential Learning of Patient/Family-Centered Care
New York Presbyterian Hospital
Principal Investigator: Nicholas H. Fiebach, MD
Project Title: The Patient’s Voice: Institution-wide Training for Housestaff in Patient-Centered Care
SUNY Upstate Medical University
Principal Investigator(s): Stephen Knohl, MD
Project Title: Learning to Talk
University of Chicago
Principal Investigator: Vineet Arora, MD MAPP
Project Title: Engineering Patient Oriented Clinic Handoffs (EPOCH) Project
University of California San Francisco /VA Medical Center, San Francisco
Principal Investigator: Calvin L. Chou, MD, PhD
Project Title: Development of Interprofessional Team-based Observed Structured Clinical Examinations to Ensure Patient-Centeredness in Primary CareTeams
University of South Florida
Principal Investigators: Deanna Wathington, MD , MPH and Charles N Paidas MD, MBA (DIO)
Project Title: Enhancing Medical Resident Cultural and Linguistic Competency
For more information and to visit the GME toolbox go to The Picker Institute.
The Picker Institute Inc. is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to the global advancement of the principles of patient-centered care.