Assessment of an organizational effort to increase emergency medicine faculty on National Institutes of Health study sections

Publications Category : Emergency Medicine, Medical Education

Author(s): Christian D. Pulcini, David J. Barton, Michael Cassara, Joshua J. Davis, Stephanie C. DeMasi, Edward J. Durant, Nidhi Garg, Colin Greineder, |Melissa McMillian, James H. Paxton, Michael A. Puskarich, Jody A. Vogel, Ambrose H. Wong, Willard W. Sharp

Project Description : For over a decade, key stakeholders in the specialty of emergency medicine (EM) research have invested in infrastructure, education, training, and financial support to increase the number of federally funded EM investigators.1–4 As part of these efforts, these stakeholders formulated and disseminated a comprehensive description of the state of EM research and outlined proposed strategies to increase federal funding in the specialty, which included increasing the number of EM faculty participating in federal grant review study sections.