Research Awards & Grants

Complete applications include: 

• Abstract: succinctly describe every major aspect of the grant: what, why, and how (Performance measure, patient safety, CPG, AUC, etc.). 
• Specific Aims: What are you doing? 
• Background and significance: Why are you doing this? 
• Preliminary studies and results: What you have already done and how did you do it? 
• Research design and methods: How you plan to do the research, why you are doing it this way, when and where you are doing it, how you will analyze the data 
• Budget justification: personnel, equipment, software, travel costs, etc. 

• Applicant must be a member in good standing. 
• Proposed projects should be limited to quality and patient safety initiatives and related advocacy, such as performance measures, patient safety checklists, appropriate use criteria, clinical practice guidelines, and any derivatives. 
• The suggested project must fit within an area of importance to the membership of POSNA.

• Principal Investigator must be a Candidate member or an Active member of POSNA in good standing. 
• Non-orthopaedic surgeon MDs, PhDs, or DVMs are eligible to apply if affiliated with an orthopaedic department and working with an orthopaedic surgeon/POSNA member who is the Co-PI. 
• Current grant or award recipients, with the exception of current microgrant recipients, cannot apply for a future grant as a PI, as one of multiple investigators, or as a co-investigator until the current award/grant research is completed and all final reports and expense reports have been submitted and accepted. An exception can be made if a co-investigator is due less than $5,000 for the remaining timeline of the grant, inclusive of any payment made during the current calendar year.