Every proposal submitted to the Regenstrief Center must be accompanied by brief statements describing how it is a VALID project (see criteria below). Projects are not expected to have equal strength in all VALID areas. However, every proposal must provide statements on all points.
Visibility: How will this project achieve visibility within the partnering organization/s, across RCHE community of faculty and students, and for RCHE and the partnering organization/s? Examples: Publication within the organizational newsletter/s, publication in a magazine or professional journal, newspaper articles, an RCHE workshop, brown-bag lunch, etc.
Activity with Healthcare Organizations: What healthcare organizations will be involved in this project? Which RCHE-partner (or other specific) organization/s will be involved? What is the nature of their involvement? How will the organization/s benefit from their involvement?
Leverage: How can the success of this project be leveraged beyond its current scope? Examples: A more ambitious project supported by external funding, article in an academic/research journal, the development of a short course, etc.
Impact: How will the impact of the project be measured? Example: What before/after metrics will be used to measure the impact of the project?
Discipline: What discipline/s from engineering, management, science, and/or healthcare will provide the intellectual basis and/or tools for the project? What previously-published work/s will this project be based upon? Example: “This project will use queuing analysis and bottleneck-identification techniques to examine patient-record processing. Alternative patient-processing systems will be evaluated using discrete-event simulation.” |
