REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS
Interprofessional Student Team Hot Spotting Minigrants
Sponsored by the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers and Primary Care Progress
Administered and Supported by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC)
Deadline: 5:00 p.m. EDT, Monday, April 7, 2014
You are invited to submit an application to become a hot spotter and learn from one of the pioneers behind the concept
– Jeffrey Brenner, MD and his colleagues at the Camden Coalition! Assemble an interprofessional team of students to
collaboratively gain insight into the root causes that lead some patients to have repeat emergency room visits and
hospital admissions and analyze how this additional utilization might have been avoided. Work with super-utilizers in
your community to help those patients get better care by becoming a hot spotter, and the Camden Coalition, AAMC,
and Primary Care Progress will help you get started.
With support from the Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers and Primary Care Progress, the AAMC is
administering $700 minigrants to up to five member medical schools for interprofessional hot spotting projects. Funds
only may be used for patient-related expenses and cannot be used for project management, indirect costs, or other
expenses.
Award recipients must:
● Create an interprofessional team of 4-5 students (from such fields as nursing, pharmacy, physical therapy,
medicine, dentistry, social work), plus a licensed physician who will serve as a faculty advisor;
● Work with the clinic/hospital to select 4-5 patients who frequently visit the ED and/or are admitted to the hospital,
then obtain patient content to work with them for six months through home visits, accompaniment to doctor visits,
and care coordination;
● Identify potential interventions to propose to the hospital/clinic that might improve the patient’s ability to access
needed care and services outside the hospital or emergency room. With the clinic’s approval, use the $700 award
for patient support items like bus passes, phone cards, canes, etc. (as appropriate to their particular situations);
● Assist the patients with appointments and better understanding their healthcare needs;
● Work as a team to learn about the patients’ challenges in improving their health and how that could be impacting
their health care utilization and outcomes;
● Ask tough questions, such as: What do these patients have in common? What role do social determinants of
health play in their care needs? Where does the healthcare system fail them? How could care for these patients
be improved? Are these situations preventable?
● Participate in a six-month learning collaborative with the award recipient cohort, hosted by the Camden Coalition,
that includes monthly webinars, mentoring, and a curriculum learning guide that will begin in May 2014;
● Work with the team’s faculty advisor to conduct at least one case conference about the patients over the course of
the project; and
● Submit a final report summarizing the project and lessons learned to the AAMC by December 31, 2014.
Eligibility:
● Although hot spotting teams must be interprofessional (with a licensed physician faculty advisor), each application
must be submitted by an AAMC member school;
● AAMC member schools may submit more than one application per member medical school; however, only one
project will be funded from each school (up to $700 maximum per medical school).
SUBMISSIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY EMAIL AT THE AAMC
NO LATER THAN 5:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time on Monday, April 7, 2014
Return the entire application form to Ally Anderson at aanderson@aamc.org
Submissions not in the format specified or received AFTER the deadline will not be considered
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For more on hot spotting, go to https://www.aamc.org/ hotspotter/ or http://www.camdenhealth.org/
Application Guidelines:
● Use the enclosed application form. Type all text within the available space on the form.
● Single-space all text.
● Proposals must be reviewed and approved by the medical school’s Associate Dean for Student Affairs and
include his/her signature and letter of support.
Applicants will be notified of their status by early May 2014. Award recipients can expect to receive their funding
approximately 4-6 weeks after notification of their award. Award funds will be sent to the attention of the Associate
Dean for Student Affairs at the lead applicant’s medical school.
2014 HOT SPOTTING MINIGRANTS APPLICATION FORM
Name of Lead Institution: _________________________________________________________________________
Contact information for Student Team Leader:
Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Institution: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________________________________
Street
City
State
Zip Code
Telephone: _______________________ Email Address: ________________________________________________
Signature: ___________________________________________________
Contact information for Up to Four Additional Student Team Members:
Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Institution: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________________________________
Street
City
State
Zip Code
Telephone: _______________________ Email Address: ________________________________________________
Signature: ___________________________________________________
Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Institution: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________________________________
Street
City
State
Zip Code
Telephone: _______________________ Email Address: ________________________________________________
Signature: ___________________________________________________
Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Institution: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________________________________
Street
City
State
Zip Code
Telephone: _______________________ Email Address: ________________________________________________
Signature: ___________________________________________________
Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Institution: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________________________________
Street
City
State
Zip Code
Telephone: _______________________ Email Address: ________________________________________________
Signature: ___________________________________________________
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Contact information for Faculty Advisor:
Name: ________________________________________________________________________________________
Institution: _____________________________________________________________________________________
Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________________________________
Street
City
State
Zip Code
Telephone: _______________________ Email Address: ________________________________________________
Signature: ___________________________________________________
Contact information for Associate Dean of Student Affairs:
Name (and degree):_____________________________________________________________________________
Title: ____________________________ Institution: ____________________________________________________
Mailing Address: ________________________________________________________________________________
Street - FedEx Deliverable
City
State
Zip Code
Telephone: _______________________ Email Address: ________________________________________________
Signature: _____________________________________________________
PROJECT DESCRIPTION (1000 word maximum): Describe the team’s objectives and why you want to become hot
spotters; list and describe the team members and faculty project advisor (including program, stage of training, and
relevant background/experiences); outline how you will work with the clinic/hospital to identify the 4-5 patients and
interact as a team over the six-month project to draw from each other’s training; and describe any institutional
resources that will be provided (e.g., space and/or food for team meetings)
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