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Educational Grants
Cerapedics believes that independent, third-party medical education programs, including those accredited as Continuing Medical Education help Healthcare Professionals improve patient health. Cerapedics may provide support for such programs including Fellowships and Scholarships in the form of Educational Grants.
Cerapedics awards grants annually, so you will need to apply each year.
Approval Criteria
- Appropriate Recipient: Support for fellowships and scholarships or other specific grants for residents, fellows or other HCPs in training must be restricted to the purpose of the program and will only be provided to healthcare institutions with legitimate and accredited training and teaching programs.
- Independent: Individual recipients will not be selected by Cerapedics. Cerapedics will not provide grants directly to any individual HCP.
- Appropriate Use of Funding: Funding may be used to cover specific costs of the fellowship or other training programs including a reasonable stipend, printed materials, and textbooks.
How to Apply
Step 1: Register for the Cerapedics Grant Portal using the link at the bottom of the page.
Step 2: Complete and submit the Cerapedics Fellowship/Sponsorship Educational Grant Request Form in the portal. You can save your progress and log back in to finish if necessary.
Required Documents:
- Formal Letter of Request: this must be on institution letterhead that identifies the requesting institution its contact information. This should include a brief synopsis of the program, total funding requested, disbursement of funds, and must identify the fellowship director.
- Program Overview: A comprehensive research/fellowship overview in the form of an agenda, brochure or pamphlet that includes faculty overview, curriculum focus, and clinical schedule.
- Hospital or Institution Overview: This should be in the form a brochure or pamphlet. If this is only available online– please submit a PDF with a link to the website.
- Institution Tax Form: The requesting institutions W-9 and 501(c)(3) if applicable. Once submitted, Cerapedics will acknowledge receipt of the application within 30 days.
Approval Criteria
Appropriate Recipient: The Educational Program should be organized, hosted, controlled, and designed by a continuing medical education or other provider with a genuine educational function.
Appropriate Purpose: The Educational Program must meet the following criteria:
- Program agenda, topics, faculty, attendees, and educational materials must reflect an objective, educational
purpose for which there is legitimate need. - The venue and setting of the program are appropriate and conducive the exchange of educational
information. - The Program does not involve extravagant meals, entertainment, recreational activities, or excessive free
time that detract from the primary, educational purpose of the program. - The program does not appear to primarily promote the medical services of a specific provider.
- Attendees are not compensated for time spent attending the program.
- If the program will be accredited, it satisfies the accreditation standards of the accrediting entity.
- Independent
- Reasonable Budget
- Appropriate Use of Funding
How to Apply
Step 1: Register for the Cerapedics Grant Portal using the link at the bottom of the page.
Step 2: Complete and submit the Cerapedics Third Party Education Grant Request Form in the portal. You can save your
progress and log back in to finish if necessary.
Required Documents:
- Formal Letter of Request
- Program Overview: A comprehensive program overview that includes program agenda, title, dates and location of the program, and comprehensive learning points of the program.
- Institution Tax Form: The requesting institutions W-9 and 501(c)(3) if applicable. Once submitted, Cerapedics will acknowledge receipt of the application within 30 days.
Cerapedics may support grant requests for other educational programs including printed materials such as books or newsletters; textbooks for residents, fellows and medical students to be used in shared locations such as medical libraries, or other such educational programs.
How to Apply
Step 1: Register for the Cerapedics Grant Portal using the link at the bottom of the page.
Step 2: Complete and submit the Cerapedics Fellowship/Sponsorship Educational Grant Request Form in the portal. You
can save your progress and log back in to finish if necessary.
Required Documents:
- Formal Letter of Request
- Institution Tax Form: The requesting institutions W-9 and 501(c)(3) if applicable.