Grants

We are taking the Long View and investing in the future.

It has been long noticed that there is asymmetry in available resources to support professional development. Yet if we are to have the best workforce in Australia, the pursuit of excellence must not be limited by thinking or by resources. The full gamut of clinicians attending patients in General Medicine need opportunities to develop professionally.

To that end, we support our members’ clinical research pursuits and attendance at interstate professional conferences. Learn and bring knowledge back to share with patients, colleagues, and SAAIM.

Yes. These grants come with strings attached: first, join SAAIM. Second, each grant recipient will be required to fill the podium to deliver a TED-style talk and a one-page report for the website.

Here are a few examples of previous grant recipients:

  • Research grant to support speech pathologists to collect and analyse outcome data about people who have dementia and develop oropharyngeal dysphagia.
  • Research grant for clinical pharmacists to investigate factor Xa levels produced by conventional or individualised dosing of enoxaparin.
  • Travel grants to New Zealand for dietitians to attend a national conference about inpatient treatments of people with an eating disorder.

The initiatives we have supported have helped patients. And the research has helped the individual clinicians involved understand a topic more deeply, developing expertise.

Here is a guide for a favourable grant application:

  • Multi-professional: e.g. Allied health and nursing; doctors and pharmacists; doctors and allied health, etc.
  • Multi-site: the project needs to extend across LHNs
  • Addressing clinical scenarios common to General Medicine wards in South Australia
  • Involves SAAIM members

For more detailed information about grants, please email the SAAIM research coordinator, Dr. Viviane De Menezes Caceres at viviane.demenezescaceres@adelaide.edu.au or Viviane.DeMenezesCaceres@sa.gov.au