Sponsored by Amgen, Inc., and TAP Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.
Application Available: TBA
Application Deadline: TBA
This program is no longer accepting applications for 2007. Applicants selected for the Research Boot Camp will be notified after February 15, 2008. Please check the Programs Calendar periodically for information about future offerings.

Research Boot Camp Participants
Learn more about the participants chosen for this year's Boot Camp.

Description
The ASHP Research and Education Foundation’s Research Boot Camp is a research skills development program composed of distance education, on-site, and research conduct components. The program aims to: foster the development of pharmacists with practice-based research skills; drive the advancement of translational research by providing clinicians with the expertise, tools and support to start a practice-based research program and answer practice-based research questions; and enhance safe and effective medication use by promoting evidence-based decision-making for individual patients and populations of patients.  The Research Boot Camp will provide an opportunity for nine new pharmacist researchers to participate in a comprehensive distance education and experiential program. Participants will develop a research idea into a well-structured research plan to be executed following program completion.  Applications for this program should demonstrate motivation to acquire research methods skills to conduct rigorous practice-based research, and should include an initial research idea.

Eligibility Criteria
Successful applicants will be pharmacists with an active pharmacy practice who demonstrate motivation to acquire research methods skills to conduct rigorous practice-based research.  Pharmacists with faculty appointments and non-academic pharmacists will be encouraged to apply.  Individuals will not be eligible if they have completed a formal education program that provided strong research training (e.g., M.S., Ph.D.).

Applicants will be required to submit an initial research idea pertinent to their clinical practice area. Support from the applicant’s home institution and committed local mentoring will be required.  Other factors that will be considered in the application review process include: previous project management experience, demonstration of analytical and critical thinking skills, authorship of peer-reviewed publications (preferred), and an established network of practitioners with a shared interest in conducting research.  Applicants will be required to demonstrate these qualifications through a provision of specific professional experience information, a personal statement, and letters of support.

Funding Information
The Research Boot Camp is funded by grants from Amgen, Inc., and Tap Pharmaceutical Products, Inc.  The Boot Camp training opportunity is awarded to an individual participant.  No stipend or honorarium is awarded to the participant.  The participant is responsible for providing their transportation to the experiential site and lodging.  The ASHP Foundation will provide group breakfasts, lunches, and one (1) dinner.  No per diem payments will be provided by the ASHP Research and Education Foundation.

The ASHP Foundation will provide a $5,000 research grant to individuals who successfully complete the Research Boot Camp.  The applicant’s sponsoring institution is required to provide a $5,000 grant, in funds or other resources, to the applicant to match the $5,000 grant provided by the ASHP Research and Education Foundation.  Upon completion of the Research Boot Camp, the applicant will submit a research grant application, for the proposed research, that complies with the ASHP Foundation’s grant instructions.  Funds granted by the ASHP Research and Education Foundation as a result of the applicant’s participation in the Research Boot Camp must be expended for the project that emanates from the applicant’s participation. 

Application Process
Pharmacists interested in applying for the Research Boot Camp should refer to application and application instructions when available for full eligibility requirements and application procedures.

Selection Criteria
Applications will be reviewed using the following criteria:

• Practice Experience – 10 points
• Project Management Experience - 10 points
• Demonstration of Analytical and Critical Thinking Skills – 10 points
• Peer-Reviewed Publications – 5 points
• Applicant Training Expectations -15 points
• Local Mentoring – 15 points
• Evidence of Availability of a Network of Researchers with Common Interest -10 points
• Institutional Support -15 points
• Research Idea – 10 points

Deadlines
Applications will be accepted between October 1, 2007 and January 4, 2008. The deadline for the ASHP Foundation to receive applications is 5 p.m. E.T. on January 4, 2008. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process by February 15, 2008.  Distance education will occur between March 1, 2008 and May 9, 2008.  Experiential education will occur  during the week of May 19, 2008.

Continuing Education Information
Universal Program Number (Distance Education): 204-000-08-824-H04P, 204-000-08-825-H04P, 204-000-08-826-H04P, 204-000-08-827-H04P, 204-000-08-828-H04P, 204-000-08-829-H04P, 204-000-08-830-H04P, 204-000-08-831-H04P, 204-000-08-832-H04P, 204-000-08-833-H04P
Universal Program Number (Experiential): 204-000-08-834-L04P

	The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is accredited by the Accreditation Council or Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
	The ASHP Foundation Research Boot Camp is an ACPE Certificate Program that provides CE credit for both the distance learning and experiential components.