Building strong grant writers in academic medicine: outcomes of early-career faculty enrolled in the University of California San Diego Health Sciences Grant Writing Course.

ABSTRACT: The success of early-career faculty at R1 research-intensive institutions depends on institutions' ability to establish an independent, grant-funded research program in a highly competitive funding environment in which only 2,174 of 11,463 National Institutes of Health (NIH) applications (19%) submitted by early-stage investigators were funded in 2023. This report summarizes outcomes of early-career faculty enrolled in the University of California San Diego Health Sciences Grant Writing Course (GWC), which provided a structured, step-by-step, multicomponent experience focused on preparing a competitive grant proposal. The program evaluation includes effects on grant submission and funding rates and grant-writing self-efficacy after 2 years of follow-up. Eighty-five early-career faculty mem

SUBMITTER: LaCroix AZ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12851622 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature