Developer Tools for Medical Education Public Physiology Research Platform (DTME-PRP)

Post Date

November 9th 2011

Application Due Date

April 26th 2012

Funding Opportunity Number

W81XWH-12-JPC1-DTME-PRP

CFDA Number(s)

12.420

Funding Instrument Type(s)

Cooperative Agreement
Grant

Funding Activity Categories

Science and Technology and other Research and Development

Number of Awards

1

Eligibility Categories

Unrestricted

Funding

• Estimated Total Funding:

  $7000000

• Award Range:

  $0 - $7000000

Grant Description

Applications for the Developer Tools for Medical Education Public Physiology Research Platform (DTME-PRP) Program Announcement are being solicited by the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, Defense Health Program (DHP). The DTME-PRP Program Announcement is issued and awarded by the U.S. Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity (USAMRAA) and managed by the Armyуs Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC.) The Developer Tools for Medical Education initiative is primarily focused on the creation of publicly accessible, free, open-license, and/or open-source tools for creation of medical training and education content and technology. Principally, the DTME initiative seeks to support the strategic goals of the Joint Program Committee 1 п Medical Training and Health Information Sciences Research Program (JPC1) through the leveraging of technologies created by this effort, finding cost efficiencies through utilization of free tools and allowing more commonality for military medical training technology systems. It is envisioned that expanding a research effort to create this capability to an open public trial and experimentation basis will allow for feedback from a larger part of the medical training community than would otherwise be possible from a single group. Feedback regarding novel uses of the evolving research platform and the data created by this research will lead to improvements in the science regarding simulated physiology for use in public and private sector medical education. The primary, but not exclusive, purposes of this Program Announcement (PA) are to solicit pre-proposals and then by invitation only, request full proposal submissions for research that will: 1) Create a public physiology research platform for use by the medical simulation development and education community; 2) enable accurate and consistent simulated physiology across multiple training applications and platforms; 3) allow for community contributions to this effort; 4) encourage greater use of scientifically-based physiological & pharmacological predictive technologies; 5) lower barriers to creating medical training content through availability of this resource 6) serve the training needs of the military; and 7) expand the corpus of knowledge regarding the use of simulated physiology for medical education. Additional information regarding the detailed purposes and anticipated outcomes of this PA is provided in the Full Announcement under Award Information, Section I.C.

Contact Information

• Agency

  Department of Defense

• Office:

  Dept. of the Army -- USAMRAA

• Agency Contact:

  Mary Rico
  Grants Officer

• Agency Mailing Address:

  Electronic Access Problems

• Agency Email Address:

  mary.rico@amedd.army.mil