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.

1. 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.
2. 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

Funding

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.

Awardee Responsibilites

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.

Eligibility

1. 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.
2. All faculty based anywhere in the WWAMI region are eligible to submit applications.
3. 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.
4. Applicants may submit only one proposal per cycle as the Principal Investigator but may be a collaborator on other submissions.
5. Previous awardees must wait one grant cycle (one year) before applying as the primary applicant for another grant.
6. 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.

Selection Process

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.

Timeline

Review Criteria

Questions? Email clime@uw.edu