Proposal Bootcamp for Faculty
August 29, 2022 11:56 pm
This Bootcamp starts the week of September 23 and ends by November 22, 2024. It is ideal for faculty writing K Awards due in February or June 2025.
Registration for 2024 is closed.
Why Join our Proposal Bootcamp?
Increase your potential for success! Prior cohorts (started in 2014) had nearly double the proposal successes as non-participants! We published our outcomes in PLOS ONE.
Learn new approaches for eliciting and delivering effective feedback! 100% of prior Bootcamp participants reported feedback received during course improved their writing.
Join the Bootcamp community! This community will guide and support your efforts in writing a strong proposal.
The 9-week Bootcamp includes:
- Self-paced videos and resources to guide the development of your K Award, including The K Award Guidebook
- Recommended schedule to create realistic benchmarks
- Overview of grant writing fundamentals
- Peer review program (optional) for feedback and opportunities to “think like a reviewer
- Weekly emails that deliver grant writing tips to your inbox
Target Audience:
School of Medicine faculty (CE, UML, UTL, NTRL, etc.) writing NIH K Awards (K01, K08, K23, etc.).
Requirements for you as a participant:
- Commit to a writing schedule during the entire Bootcamp.
- Set aside 1-2 hours per week to review materials on course website (Canvas) which are organized as 10 modules.
- Build 2-3 writing blocks into your weekly schedule of at least 2-hours to draft proposal documents.
Check out these resources:
- The K Award Guidebook (Available at Lane Medical Library)
- Writing a Ruth L. Kirschstein NRSA Fellowship (F30, F31, F21)
- Finding Funding
- Eight tips for Planning Your Proposal
- Science & Art of Grant Writing Symposium
- Timing your Proposal – Department of Pediatrics resource
- Tools & Templates – RMG’s proposal checklists and templates
Offered Next:
After Autumn 2024, this Bootcamp will be offered next in Autumn 2025.
Questions? Email Crystal Botham.
Our Proposal Bootcamp was honored with an Innovations in Research Education Award from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)! The award highlights innovations in PhD, MD-PhD, and postdoctoral education and training, or early career development that enhance the institutional research mission.
