External Awards

The IMC and INHED presents annual medical education research awards annually – learn more using the “more info” button.

“The NIHR funds a range of health-related research projects, both evidence synthesis and evidence generating, with funding streams such as Research for Patient Benefit, Public Health Research, and Health Services and Delivery Research.  In addition, the NIHR funds a range of fellowships that may be of interest to medical education researchers, including pre-doctoral, doctoral and advanced fellowships”.

In 2015 it made the following statement with regards medical education research: “NIHR is also prepared to support high quality research into ‘medical education’ (defined broadly as education for healthcare providers).  Whilst this area of research need not fulfil the criterion of having ‘potential for benefiting patients and the public within 5 years of its completion’, it is expected that the research will have the potential to have practical application“.

The ESRC funds a range of education research projects, details here:

https://esrc.ukri.org/funding/funding-opportunities/

The GMC collect data on the medical profession and the organisations where doctors practise and train; and also carry out and commission analysis and research.  They usually invite public tenders for research contracts worth over £50,000, details here:

https://www.gmc-uk.org/about/what-we-do-and-why/data-and-research/research/a-guide-to-our-research

Wellcome believes in the power of ideas to improve health; and supports thousands of scientists and researchers in more than 70 countries, as well as innovators, educators and artists, details here:

https://wellcome.ac.uk/funding/

AMEE offers a number of awards and prizes open to members and conference participants, details here:

https://amee.org/awards-prizes

The Academy of Medical Educators presents a number of prizes and awards each year, details here