Academic Units for Primary Care Training and Enhancement

This announcement solicits applications for the Academic Units for Primary Care Training and Enhancement (AU-PCTE) program.  The overarching purpose of the AU-PCTE program is to establish, maintain or improve academic units or programs that improve clinical teaching and research in the fields of family medicine, general internal medicine, or general pediatrics[1] in order to strengthen the primary care workforce.  The goal of this funding opportunity announcement (FOA) is to establish academic units to conduct systems-level research to inform primary care training; disseminate best practices and resources; and develop a community of practice to promote the widespread enhancement of primary care training to produce a diverse, high quality primary care workforce, in order to help all training programs enhance the training in primary care and in order to promote and disseminate research and best practices that result in providing higher quality and access of care to underserved communities. [1] Section  747(b)(1)(A) of the Public Health Service Act.

Application Instructions

Please submit:

1. a two-page letter of intent with a description of proposed aims and approach
2. Biosketch or CV of the PI
3. A letter of support from the Dean or Chair. This letter of support signifies that the Dean or Chair have ensured that the nominee and application are likely to be of sufficient quality to be competitive nationally

to research@uw.edu by 5:00 PM Thursday, December 17. 2015. Full proposals are due to the sponsor 1/22/16, so you will need to have your materials in to the Office of Sponsored Programs by 1/14/16 for processing, if given the go ahead by the Proposal Review Committee.