Please complete the Faculty Training Travel Grant Application. If you have questions please contact Curtis Sessler at curtis.sessler@vcuhealth.org. There is a save and return button if you need to come back to complete the application. Please be sure to write down the code number you will be given so that you can return to the application. Please be sure to submit when you are finished.

Information about the Faculty Training Travel Grant

The Internal Medicine Department recognizes the importance of education and training of our faculty. While most of this is paid out of personal funds, divisional funds or other sources, the IM department provides a special grant program to allow faculty to attend or participate in programs that will both benefit their personal career development and provide new skills or knowledge that will then be used to strengthen our department. Examples of programs that would qualify include: Learning a new clinical procedure to start or expand a program, attending a conference to develop or enhance a new or existing program, attending a leadership conference to learn new skills. These are just examples and are not to limit ideas or applications.

Faculty development travel training grants will be for up to $2500. Applications can be made throughout the year. Quarterly applications will be reviewed. The deadline for each quarter’s submission will be January 15, April 15, July 15, and October 15. Faculty are encouraged to apply up to a year prior to the planned travel/activity.

Who Can Apply? Faculty at any level may qualify for a travel/activity grant. Faculty must have been on staff for a minimum of 1 year before applying. The faculty applicant must discuss with his/her divisional chair. Faculty may only receive the grant every 2 years. The review committee will give preference to those that have never been funded and were funded more than three years ago. 100% VA faculty are not eligible.

How to apply: Complete the application form on line via this REDCap survery. Please provide an estimated budget and a program brochure or link to the program information. If a program brochure is not available please be sure to give details about what the program is and what you will be learning. Discuss and get the agreement from your Division Chair prior to completing this application. If not before, have your division chair send confirmation to Curtis Sessler at Curtis.Sessler@vcuhealth.org.

Who decides on which applications are selected? A committee which will include the Interim Associate Chair for Faculty Development and a representative from each of the Assistant, Associate, and Professor levels will review the applications and determine which will provide the best personal development as well as input back to the department. The committee does have the ability to allocate full or partial funding.

What happens if the application is selected? All travel authorizations and procedures for the university and/or MCVP must be followed. Travel will be reimbursed as per these guidelines with proper documentation. Each year following the travel grant you will receive a survey. The survey will be short but is aim at monitoring the outcomes of these travel grants. Completion of the yearly follow-ups will be required for future travel grant funding.

Questions?? Contact Curtis Sessler, MD InterimAssociate Chair for IM Faculty Development at curtis.sessler@vcuhealth.org.

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