CLIME Small Grants Program

CLIME Small Grants Program is sponsored by University of Washington School of Medicine. Supports innovative projects that advance medical education and improve health professions training in the WWAMI region.

2027 Call for Applications: CLIME Small Grants - UW School of Medicine | CLIME 2026 CLIME Small Grant Proposal Application Deadline March 27th, 11:59 PM PT The University of Washington School of Medicine’s Center for Learning and Innovation in Medical Education (CLIME) offers a Small Grant Program with the goals of advancing scholarship in health sciences education, supporting the career development of faculty engaged in educational scholarship throughout the School of Medicine, and creating community around educational scholarship.

This program is made possible through a generous contribution from the Mary E. Nelson Charitable Remainder Trust, as granted by Heidi Combs, Trustee. Examples of previously funded projects can be found here: CLIME Scholarship | UW School Of Medicine | CLIME .

All projects should have the level of rigor needed for dissemination through peer-reviewed publications. Applicants should review the grant review criteria prior to submission. Two categories of projects will be accepted.

CLIME aims to fund a mix of both types of projects. Scholarship of integration or investigation : systematic reviews or investigation and discovery around health sciences education. Projects should address novel research questions and describe methods that support the rigorous evaluation of these questions.

Scholarship of teaching : the development, implementation, and evaluation of curricula and/or innovative teaching methods. Projects should develop and evaluate meaningful curricula and/or report outcomes from innovative teaching initiatives. Use the 2026 CLIME Small Grant Application Template to help you draft and organize your proposal.

Please note that this template is for reference only and cannot be submitted as your final application. All completed applications must be submitted through the online submission form . The form will automatically apply word limits for each section.

Deadline March 27th, 11:59 PM PT CLIME has $20,000 available for funding during this grant cycle. Awards are capped at $5,000. Awardees may use up to $1000 for travel and conference fees to present their work.

Awardees are required to attend CLIME works-in-progress (WIPs) meetings to present their projects. Awardees are also required to attend the WIP of at least one other grantee and provide peer feedback. Supported projects are anticipated to be disseminated in peer-reviewed resources.

CLIME will request interim and final progress reports. The Principal Investigator (PI) must hold a faculty appointment, at the rank of Instructor or higher, at the University of Washington School of Medicine. Faculty with appointments in other Health Sciences Schools must also hold a School of Medicine faculty appointment in order to serve as PI on a grant application.

All faculty based anywhere in the WWAMI region are eligible to submit applications. UW SoM students, trainees, staff, and faculty members appointed in other health sciences schools may be part of a project team as long as the PI holds a faculty appointment in the School of Medicine. Applicants may submit only one proposal per cycle as the Principal Investigator but may be a collaborator on other submissions.

Previous awardees must wait one grant cycle (one year) before applying as the primary applicant for another grant. The application should directly reflect the thought, ideas, and effort of the applicants and not artificial intelligence. Any substantive uses of generative AI for the project must be acknowledged in the application.

Grant applications will be peer reviewed using the review rubric below. Final funding decisions are made by the selection committee who are tasked to determine the highest quality applications and with an aim to fund a mix of scholarship of integration or investigation and scholarship of teaching projects.

Optional pre-proposal deadline – for faculty who wish to submit a structured summary for consultation with the CLIME Team Grant proposal submission deadline July 1st, 2026 – June 30th, 2027 CLIME Small Grant funds must be spent during this time period Scholarship of Integration or Investigation Clarity of the significance of the problem / identified gap Clarity of the significance of the problem / identified gap Complete review of the relevant literature.

Complete review of the relevant literature Logical connection of the research questions and aims of the project to the problem / gap. Logical connection of the educational objectives and aims of the project to the problem / gap. Integration of a conceptual framework into the research plan.

Integration of educational theory into the project. Description of how the project builds upon prior work in the field. Description of how the project is informed by prior work on the topic.

Justification of the study design and study population to address the research question. Justification of the curriculum development / teaching innovation plan to meet educational objectives. Justification of data collection methods and instruments.

Justification of the evaluation plan of the curriculum / teaching innovation. Potential of the project to have a positive impact in health sciences education. Potential of the project to have a positive impact in health sciences education.

Justification of budget line items. Justification of budget line items. Questions?

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