Grant & Research Methods Education
The AAN is committed to bringing its members the highest quality continuing medical education and professional education opportunities. The 2008 Annual Meeting offers several programs that provide grant-writing and research methods guidance.
2009 Annual Meeting Education Grant Programs
1EP.001: Clerkship and Program Directors Conference: Faculty and Professional Development
Director(s): Lori Schuh MD
Participants should be able to discuss the principles of adult learning and practical methods of fostering teaching skills; describe processes to document educational credentials for promotion; identify processes, tools, and policies to deal with problem learners; and have a better understanding of financial planning in their residency program.
3AC.006: Clinical Research Methods I
Director(s): Karl Kieburtz MD, FAAN
Participants should be able to apply principles of clinical research to common unanswered questions in medical practice and be able to better interpret medical literature.
3EC. 001: Education Colloquium: Ethics and Education
Director(s): Lori Schuh MD
Participants should be familiar with the national standards and guidelines for teaching ethics and exposed to several examples of programs and teaching activities in ethics; understand the hidden curriculum and how this influences patient care, medical errors, and patient safety; be able to describe the process for developing an ethics curriculum and summarize the various methods for teaching ethics; and appreciate that a better understanding of the purpose of health law could influence practice patterns and may require collaboration between lawyers and physicians.
3PC.006: Clinical Research Methods II
Director(s): Karl Kieburtz MD, FAAN
Participants should have more advanced knowledge of specialized clinical trial designs, and the use of biomarkers and biospecimens from clinical trials.
4BS.004: Clinical Grant Writing
Director(s): Bernard Ravina MD
Participants should know the basics of writing an NIH grant, the components of a clinical trial grant application, and the NIH grant review process.
5BS.003: Editor's Seminar: Tips for Writing and Reviewing in Neurology®
Director(s): John Noseworthy, MD, FAAN
Participants should understand more completely what editors look for in submitted manuscripts and what they require from reviewers in order to increase the likelihood that participants will be both published and recruited as reviewers for neurology journals.
6BS.002: Career Development for Clinician Educators
Director(s): Douglas Gelb MD, PhD, FAAN
Participants should understand which activities and responsibilities in an academic neurology department are most likely to be productive for career development as a clinician educator; how to negotiate for those assignments and for the resources necessary to fulfill them; and how to document their accomplishments and productivity.
2007 Annual Meeting Seminars Available for Purchase
At the 2007 annual meeting, two grant writing seminars, one on clinical grant writing and another on writing career development proposals were offered. In addition, a full-day Clinical Research Methods program was available. These courses are available for purchase via Marathon Multimedia.