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SACME Research Grants

SACME currently offers two grant award opportunities

Phil R. Manning Research Award in Continuing Professional Development

This grant is made in the name of Phil R. Manning, MD, Paul Ingalls Hoagland Hastings Professor of Continuing Medical Education and Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. Dr. Manning was the founding president of the Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education, formerly the Society of Medical College Directors of Continuing Medical Education. He was a governor, regent, and vice president of the American College of Physicians and served on several educational committees of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Manning was co-editor of Medicine: Preserving the Passion in the 21st Century and authored many peer-reviewed publications.

Manning Award Details

Mazmanian Research Fellowship Award

The Society for Academic Continuing Medical Education (SACME) is committed to promoting value in patient care and health of the public through scholarship that advances the theory, delivery, and evaluation of continuing medical and interprofessional education. To support this mission, SACME has created the Paul E. Mazmanian, PhD Research Fellowship Award for Early Career Investigators (hereafter the Mazmanian Research Fellowship Award).

Information on the next application cycle will be posted soon. To view download instructions for the application process for the last cycle click here.

Click here for more information on Dr. Paul Mazmanian.

Questions

Please direct any questions about the application or the grant to either Nathaniel Williams at nwilliams@prckansas.org, Nikhita Singhal at n.singhal@mail.utoronto.ca, or Joyce Fried at joycemfried@gmail.com.

Awarded Grants

SACME Research Grants

The following list reflects grants that have been awarded through the grant application process.

Year	Institution/PI	Project Title	Notes
2023/2024	Dillon Welindt	Measuring the Environmentally Valid Learning Approach (EVLA) (login to view the recorded session)	Mazmanian Award
2023/2024	Joanne Goldman Brian Wong University of Toronto	Strengthening the position of continuing education as a foundational element of quality improvement	Manning Award
2021/2022	Francesca Luconi McGill Hill University	Building resilience and well-being in primary care during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic: A case-study in continuing professional development	Manning Award
2019/2020	Mahan Kulasegaram University of Toronto	Supporting Self-Directed Learning and Transfer through Testing in CME	Manning Award
2017/2018	Sanjeev Sockalingam and David Wiljer University of Toronto	Data and Lifelong Learning (LLL): Understanding Cultural Barriers and Facilitators to Accessing and Using Clinical Performance Data to Support Continuing Professional Development (CPD)	Manning Award
2015/ 2016	Fahad Alam Sunnybrook Health Services Centre	Impact of acute care physician’s age on crisis management performance and learning after simulation-based education	Manning Award
2013/ 2014	Moshe Feldman VCU	Practice Based Learning to Achieve System Based Practice: An Interprofessional CE Model and Toolbox for Planned Practice Change	Manning Award
2011/ 2012	Joan Sargeant Dalhousie University	Performance feedback to inform self-assessment and guide practice improvement: Developing and testing a feedback facilitation model	Manning Award
2007/ 2008	Heather Armson University of Calgary	Practice reflections by family physicians participating in three three different practice based learning programs: Are there differences in commitment-to-change statements?	Manning Award
2006	Marisa Finlay McMaster University	Breast cancer survivors and CME in health advocacy	small grant
2005	Kevin Eva McMaster University	Examining the problem with experience: Does practice make physicians more susceptible to premature closure?	small grant
2004	Onil Bhattacharyya University of Toronto	Overcoming barriers to diabetes guideline management in remote aboriginal communities	small grant
2004	Barbara Barnes University of Pittsburgh	Improving the discussion and atribution of adverse events and medical errors: an interactive case conference	Manning Award
2004	Gary Sibbald University of Toronto	Simultaneous use of telemedicine for patient care and continuing education rounds in dermatology	small grant
2004	Sonya Lawson Virginia Commonwealth University	Use of PDAs in reflection and learning practice	large grant
2003	Gabrielle Kane University of Toronto	Examining the impact of change on professional practice	small grant
2003	Stephanie Giberson University of Manitoba	Facilitating physician learning community development [sic]	small grant
2002	Joan Sargeant Dalhousie University	Physicians' attitudes toward participating in accredited CME programs on the Internet	large grant
2001	Jocelyn Lockyer University of Calgary	Qualitative evaluation of small group learning	small grant
2000/ 2001	Yvonne Coyle University of Texas Southwestern-Dallas	Assessing physician clinical performance outcome in highly motivated learners	Manning Award
2000	Jack Kues University of Cincinnati	The value of formal CME: Physician perception [SACME Research Collaborative]	Manning Award
1999	Michael Allen Dalhousie University	Videoconferencing for problem-based small group learning	large grant
1998	Jonathan Hellman University of Toronto	[mentorship]	small grant
1997	David Bailey Marshall University	[mentorship]	small grant
1996	Jocelyn Lockyer University of Calgary	Physician use of personalized feedback to make changes in their clinical practice	small grant