MOCEP Grants

GRANTS ARE NOT BEING ISSUED IN 2025-2026

Emergency Medicine Resident Research Grant

Purpose

The goal of the Missouri Chapter’s Resident Research Grant is to facilitate the academic growth and research expertise of residents in emergency medicine, and to promote research in emergency medicine.

The results of the research project should be applicable to the everyday practice of emergency medicine.

Eligibility

The grant is available to any resident in good standing in a Missouri ACGME or AOA approved Emergency Medicine Program. Residents must have a faculty preceptor capable of ensuring the successful completion of the project as planned. The faculty preceptor need not be within a Department of Emergency Medicine, but should have appropriate research experience. The research project should be designed to furnish new knowledge relating to the practice of Emergency Medicine.

This grant will not be awarded in 2024-2025.

If you have questions, please contact the MOCEP office at 573-636-2144 or via email [email protected]

A maximum of $4,500 will be available each year.
The number of awards granted will depend on the number and quality of proposals submitted.
The minimum award will be $1,000.
No funds will be available for investigator salary support, travel, or publication.
The Missouri College of Emergency Physicians does not include funds for indirect costs associated with the grants it awards.

The applicant should demonstrate that he/she will have dedicated time available to complete the project described. Furthermore, evidence that the project will be successfully completed at his/her institution should be provided. A letter of support and current Curriculum Vitae of the faculty preceptor(s) will be required. The applicant and the institution must certify that research involving humans has been approved by the Institutional Review Board before award funds will be distributed. Research involving animals must be approved by the Institutional Animal Review Committee and conform to the Principles for the Use of Animals in Research and Education approved by the Council of the American Physiological Society.

Applicants will be reviewed and scored by the Grants and Awards Committee of the Missouri College of Emergency Physicians. Applications will be judged based on the project’s relevance to emergency medicine and appropriateness of study methodology.

Applications will be accepted in the spring, deadline April 4th, and fall, deadline Sept. 15th. Grants will be awarded within 6 weeks of the deadline but may be delayed if additional information is required. Institutional Review Board or Institutional Animal Review Committee approval, if indicated, is required prior to the disbursement of funds. Fifty percent of the monies will be granted prior to project initiation. The balance will be distributed upon study completion and submission of an abstract for a scientific meeting or a manuscript for publication to a medical journal.

Please provide a protocol synopsis (maximum of 5 pages) with the following:

Title
Name of Investigator(s)
Objective
Purpose
Hypothesis
Study Rationale
Background Information
Methods
Study Design: Multicenter, double-blind, randomized, placebo controlled, how confidentiality is protected, etc.Drugs/Devices: Identify any experimental drug/devise.Patients/Subjects: Number, inclusion/exclusion criteria, identify institution where patients/subjects will be obtained.Treatment Groups: Identify the treatment/observation group(s) and method of assignment to that group.Length of Study: How long will each patient participate; what is anticipated duration of study.
Observation & Measurements: Outline those observations used to assess efficacy and/or toxicity; define risks; describe procedures minimizing risks/benefits.Study Schedule: Provide timetable indicating when the study procedures and evaluation are to be performed on each patient.Sponsor: Source of funding.Summary of Project (in laymen’s terminology): Brief description of project objectives, rationale, methods.
Results
Variables for Analysis: List those to be used, i.e., efficacy, safety, etc.
Method of Statistical Analysis
Budget

The following items are required to be considered for this award:
Curriculum vitae of the resident.
Curriculum vitae of the faculty preceptor(s).
Letter of support from faculty preceptor(s).
Protocol synopsis.

Fall 2021 – Evaluating ACEP Clinical Policy Awareness and Trustworthiness Among Emergency Medicine Residents and Attendings; and Inter-Rater Reliability of a Lung Point of Care Ultrasound Rubric in a Population of Non-Critically Ill COVID-19 Patients
Spring 2021 – Validation of smart-phone plant identification applications for identification of foraged foods in the Midwest
Fall 2020 – Methylnaltrexone versus Naloxegol in the Treatment of Opioid-Induced Constipation in the Emergency Department
Spring 2020 – Using Infrared Technology for Early Sepsis Detection in the Emergency Department
2019 – Independent Predictors of Bacterial Meningitis in an Adult Emergency Department
2018 – Use of Low-Cost Virtual Reality for Distraction and Anxiolysis During Painful Procedures; and Serum Vitamin C in Septic Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department
2017 – Prevalence of Suicidality in EMS Providers; and The Incidence of Delayed Intracranial Hemorrhage in Patients with Suspected Traumatic Brain Injury on Direct Oral Anticoagulants
2016 – Factors Associated with Hospital Admission in Patients Presenting to an Urban Emergency Department with Skin and Soft Tissue Infection

Bill Jermyn MOCEP Advocacy Grant

The goal of this grant is to encourage Emergency Medicine Residents (must be a MOCEP member) to become active in the legislative activities of MOCEP and provide them with knowledge to advocate on behalf of Emergency Medicine in the future.

The grant will provide up to $1,000 per year to allow Missouri EM (MOCEP members) residents to attend the annual ACEP Leadership and Advocacy Conference (LAC) in Washington, D.C. Grant recipients will be responsible for costs above the awarded amount and for the registration fees.

The total amount reimbursed to each resident will depend on the number of residents that apply and are selected for the grant. A total of $1,000 will be allotted each year.

Grant recipients will be expected to write a short article about their experience at LAC for inclusion in the EM Pulse Newsletter following the conference.

MOCEP Student Advocacy Grant

MOCEP encourages medical students interested in the emergency medicine specialty to get involved during medical school.

For this reason, a grant has been developed to help students learn about activities and advocacy efforts of MOCEP and its leadership.

MOCEP will select one medical student each year and provide them $300 to attend the ACEP Leadership Advocacy Conference (LAC) in Washington, D.C. In order to qualify for this grant, the student must attend the MOCEP Advocacy Day and commit to attend the LAC. The grant can be used to pay for registration for LAC and travel to and from LAC (expenses above $300 are the responsibility of the recipient). The grant funds will be provided as a reimbursement, so the selected student will need to submit receipts after the event to receive the funds.

The selected student will also be asked to submit a short article about their experience at LAC for inclusion in the EM Pulse newsletter.