How to Draft a Project Proposal

Published on Aug 26, 2016

This Haiku Deck provides a guide for medical students in the UA College of Medicine's Medical Education Distinction Track for developing their education projects. It outlines the components of a project proposal: Project Goal, Research Questions, Setting, Participants, and Methods.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

How to Draft a Project Proposal

 in the Med Ed Distinction Track
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Project Mentor!

Consult your
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Use with the Project Outline Form

Identify

Your Project focus

WHAT

Do you want to study?

HOW

Do You Propose to Study It?

1) Identify the medical education setting

Clinical Settings?

Will you focus on educational experience in...

Pre-clinical Settings?

Will you focus on educational experience in...
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UME or GME?

Will you focus on educational experience in...

2) Identify the educational issue or practice you want to address.

Teaching? Learning?

Will you focus on ...
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Technology?

Instructional Methods?

Curriculum Content or Design?

Assessment Methods?

Constructive Feedback?

The role or process of...

3) Describe the project goal.

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Educational Experience

To Describe or Explain the ...

Educational Practice

To explain the use or limitations of an

An Educational Program or Curriculum

To Evaluate

4) Describe desired project outcomes.

Curriculum

To Design or Enhance

Improve the learner experience

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Improve Learning Outcomes

Enhance Technology Use

Among Students or Faculty
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Enhance Faculty Development

Program Improvement

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Consider...

Will they be available?

Who the Participants should be?
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Survey, Interviews, Focus Groups...

How will you collect the data?
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for Data Collection or Analysis

Whether you need to Learn Technology

Finish the Project in Time

Will you be able to
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Challenges?

Do you anticipate any
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Address challenges?

What resources could help you
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Ask the...

Questions about this process?
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Director - Athena Ganchorre, PhD

Education Research Mentor

Karen Spear Ellinwood PhD (kse@medadmin.arizona.edu)