Office of Health & Medical Education Scholarship
better teachers, better learners, better care
Health & Medical Education Scholarship Funding Competitions 2023-24
OHMES is excited to announce our two annual funding competitions:
Health Science & Medical Education Research and Innovation Funding Competition
This is our tenth annual competition, with awards now up to $15,000 per project. See full announcement for requirements and eligibility criteria.
Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Scholarship in Health and Medical Education Funding Competition
This competition is focused on health and medical education scholarship in the areas of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and Indigenous health. Awards up to $10,000 per project. See full announcement for requirements and eligibility criteria.
Letters of Intent for both competitions are due 30 October 2023.
Please note that projects for which EDI issues are the primary focus must be submitted to the Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Scholarship in Health and Medical Education Funding Competition. The same project cannot be submitted to both competitions.
What is OHMES?
The Office of Health & Medical Education Scholarship (OHMES) was established in 2013, in response to the University's "Eyes High" vision to be a catalyst and enabler for educational scholarship in the Cumming School of Medicine (CSM). OHMES focuses on the scholarship of teaching, an area of academic activity that is truly part of the scholarship expected of a member of the academic community.
Educational scholarship is "an umbrella term which can encompass both research and innovation in health professions education" (CAME definition). The pursuit of educational scholarship is central to ensuring quality and capacity in educational programs and thereby in the health workforce as a whole.
Rather than focusing exclusively on research, OHMES takes a holistic perspective on what counts as scholarship. The METRICS model was developed by OHMES (Ellaway and Topps 2017) as a way of representing the many intersecting approaches to inquiry that can be considered scholarly in
health and medical education.
To that end, OHMES offers a number of services and supports to faculty, students and staff of the CSM to pursue and achieve educational scholarship.
OHMES is funded through the office of the Senior Associate Dean Education, and is also a unit of the O'Brien Institute for Public Health. Our members and volunteers work with other departments and units in the CSM, other UofC faculties, and scholarship units worldwide.
In its essence, OHMES is a community rather than solely a provider of services. We look forward to continued and future collaborations with our partners, to promote a scholarship culture across disciplines.
Health & Medical Education Scholarship in Calgary
This document provides a history of health and medical education scholarship at the Faculty of Medicine, as well as a strategic plan (2019) for the Office of Health & Medical Education Scholarship.