Funder: Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Foundation
Due Dates (Anticipated): August 2027 (Application deadline)
Funding Amounts: Up to $5,000 for one year
Summary: Seed funding for junior investigators conducting simulation-based emergency medicine research and developing research careers.
Key Information: Applicants must maintain SAEM and Simulation Academy membership and have no prior extramural simulation-research funding as principal investigator.
Description
The SAEM Foundation’s Simulation Academy Novice Research Grant supports new and junior investigators pursuing simulation-based research and scholarship in emergency medicine. It provides seed funding for experiential training and career development, with projects spanning medical education, clinical operations, patient safety, and emergency care systems. Projects need not focus on medical education.
Supported approaches include high-fidelity manikins, task trainers, virtual or augmented reality, serious games, standardized patients, scenario and assessment-tool development, computational modeling, and hybrid approaches. Projects must address a novel question, use rigorous study designs and established frameworks, and produce outcomes or tools potentially useful to emergency medicine researchers and educators. Qualitative data may be included. The program encourages higher-level outcomes that can improve clinical performance or patient care.
