Information for Investigators
The Foundation sponsors several grants to support basic and applied research in medical decision-making, with the goal of advancing the understanding and effective implementation of shared decision-making and attracting scholars to the field of decision making in medical care.
The George Bennett Dissertation Fellowships and Robert Derzon Postdoctoral Grants
The George Bennett Dissertation Fellowships and Robert Derzon Post Doctoral Grants provide financial support for doctoral candidates, post-docs, and clinical fellows to conduct research on shared decision-making. Recent fellowship and grant recipients have investigated the decision-making needs of people with severe mental illness, the degree to which the quality of nurses’ decision support can be improved with a theory-based skills building intervention, and the effect of a direct-to-consumer campaign for a cervical cancer screening test on decision-making processes, patient satisfaction, and the clinical appropriateness of test use.
The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision Making will not be doing a round of Investigator Initiated grants this year. Please check back for any requests for proposals that we may release. You may also send an email to mgreenberg@fimdm.org to have your name placed on a list of investigators interested in SDM research and we will email you the RFP once drafted and released. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.