This is a funding opportunity for emerging dermatology residency programmes to apply for a "GLODERM SEED Grant", in partnership with CeraVe Care For All, to advance and support their initiatives to increase access to dermatological care and training in underserved communities.

Aim: This grant aims to help initiate, develop, or expand emerging dermatology residency / training programmes in resource-limited settings.

What: Maximum funding available per grant is USD $20,000, including overhead and indirect costs. If your institute requires any administration fees, please include this within your budget.

Who: The applicant should be the programme leader, or co-leader, and manages the dermatology residency programme within your institute. Applicants must be affiliated with a developing or recently established dermatology training programme. Only one application may be submitted per residency programme.

To obtain access to funding, your programme should comply with the application process and meet the grant eligibility requirements.

Grant Name

Eligibility

✔ GLODERM Member
All applicants must be GLODERM Member – and if not already one, to sign up for free as an Active Member to stay involved with our community.

✔ Dermatology pathway
Applicants must be leading, or co-leading, the management of a dermatology residency training programme within your institute.

Physicians (MMed, MBBS, MD, or equivalent) or practising dermatologists working within an institute and managing a dermatology residency training programme.
Applicants must be the dermatology residency training programme lead manager or closely involved in coordinating the programme.

This grant is not for individual residents or medical students.

✔ Emerging residency programme

An emerging dermatology residency programme must have been launched within your institute, with the first residents enrolled, less than six (6) years ago. To be eligible, your training programme should have no more than 3 x graduated residency groups.

Programmes older than six (6) years will not be eligible to apply for the grant.

✔ Official letter of support

Applicants must provide a dated and signed or stamped institutional letter on an official letterhead, clearly confirming details submitted in your application:

Confirm your role as lead or co-lead in managing the dermatology residency training programme within your institution
Confirm details of the dermatology residency training programme
Confirm expected use of the grant funding outlined in your application
Confirm that the institute can receive the funding and will support with the grant reporting requirements

The letter must be signed or written by an authorised institute representative other than the applicant themselves (such as a Head of Department or Institute Lead/Head).

What if my residency programme has not launched yet?
If you have a dermatology residency programme starting within the next 6-months, then you may be eligible to apply for this grant and join the network.

If you have no specific plans to launch within the next 6-months - you will not be eligible to apply for this grant on this occasion. However, please do contact us to see if you are eligible to join the ERP Network to receive access to bi-monthly meetings and online resources, focusing on common challenges to overcome and best practice topics to support your endeavour to launch a new residency programme in your institute.

Please tick to confirm your agreement to the declaration below

I confirm that I have read and understood the eligibility criteria and that my dermatology residency programme meets these requirements

Required documents for your application

We require some documentation to be prepared and uploaded as part of your application. You can take a look throughout the application pages and your form will automatically save, should you wish to come back at a later date to upload documents.

To support your preparation, please find a list below of what will be required:

Official letter of support (see above eligibility requirement)
Applicant and Programme Lead Curriculum Vitae
12-month programme timeline outlining key milestones and funding use
Budget overview of expected grant use up to USD $20,000

Document templates for the timeline and budget overview can be downloaded here.

Programme launch

Has the residency programme launched already?

YesNo

What year did the programme launch?

2025202420232022202120202019Before 2019

Will the programme launch within the next 6 months?

YesNo

Programme numbers

Programme Start Date/Expected Start date:

How many residents / trainees are currently/expected to be involved in the programme?

How many residents / trainees have been involved in the programme in total since the start date?

How many residency / trainee groups have graduated from your programme to date?

What country or region are your residents / trainees coming from/expected to come from?

How many faculty members are/will be involved in the programme?

Do you have/plan to have external / virtual / adjunct / visiting faculty currently involved in the programme?

YesNo

Yes - please specify whether external / virtual / adjunct / visiting faculty are involved in the programme and how many are involved?

How many dermatology patients does your institute treat, on average, each year?

Is a representative from your programme a member of the GLODERM Emerging Residency Programme Network?

YesNo

Important

Unfortunately only residency programmes launched in the last 6 (six) years ago or those that are due to be launched in the next 6 (six) months are eligible to apply for this grant. However, the GLODERM Committee are keen to explore other avenues to support initiatives in the future and therefore, we would welcome further details about your programme.

Would you like to provide further details for future consideration?

YesNo

Thank you

We appreciate your interest in the GLODERM SEED Grant - you can now close this application.

Please share any further details about your programme challenges / funding need below.

Programme Lead Contact Details

First Name

Last Name

Email Address

Telephone Number

Please include the country code

Role

Professor, Head of Department, Practitioner etc.

Please confirm that you are the main lead or coordinator for the residency training programme in your institute.

Yes

Please upload the Programme Lead's Curriculum Vitae

Institute details

Please provide the name of the institute that your programme will take place in below.

Institute Name

Institute Address

Institute Country

Institute Category

Public HospitalAcademic InstituteNational Dermatology Training CentreOther

Please specify 'Other'

Executive summary

Programme Goals: Briefly describe the residency programme.

When did or will the residency programme start and what is the structure (length, number of trainees, graduates and where they practice, if known)?
Please list 2-3 goals and objectives for the programme/funding.

Programme Beneficiaries: Please discuss who will benefit from the programme (patients, health care workers, trainees, etc).

Affiliated Institution/ Organisation (if applicable): Please provide a one-sentence summary of the mission, geographic reach, key demographics of patients served and core programs in your affiliated institution/organisation.

Programme Impact/ Statement of Need: Please describe how your residency programme will benefit from this funding and how it will help serve the community skin health needs for the specified patient population.

Why is this residency programme important in leading to the betterment of skin health and access to skin health care in underserved communities.

Please provide a high-level overview of your dermatology residency programme and how it will utilise the funding. We encourage you to review and answer the questions provided above within your response (350 words maximum)

Please refer to the questions and points above to include in your response

Goals and objectives

What are the changes that you expect to happen as a result of this grant? What will be the outcomes of developing or supporting this dermatology residency programme?

Who will benefit? (e.g., patients, young people, people with eczema)
What is changing? (e.g., skin health conditions, knowledge, skills, environment, etc.)
How will you measure and track your impact on participants’ lives, knowledge, or health? Please utilise the SMART method on how you will be measuring impact. (e.g., # of partnerships created or expanded, # of skin cancer screenings provided, # of abnormal skin screenings found, added patient services)
Who will be responsible for collecting information for monitoring and evaluation?

Unexpected Challenges: What challenges do you anticipate may arise for your programme?

Sustainability Plan: What is the current and long-term sustainability plan for this residency training programme

Please provide the goals and objectives of the programme using the SMART format (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-Bound). We encourage you to review and answer the questions provided above within your response (750 words maximum)

Please refer to the questions and points above to include in your response

How many people will benefit from this grant and residency programme? Please state the number and describe the expected impact in 1 sentence.

(e.g., # of dermatologists trained per calendar year, # of frontline healthcare workers supported in dermatology per calendar year, # of frontline healthcare workers trained in dermatology per calendar year, # of underserved patients served per calendar year, # of underserved patient visits per calendar year, total # of lives impacted). Must be trackable.

Programme timeline

Please include a brief timeline with expected milestones

This will be reflected upon during 6-month and 12-month reports to evaluate progress and any challenges that may have arisen related to this funding.

Include any expected milestones within your project and in relation to how the grant funding will be used throughout the 12-month duration.

You may upload your own timeline document or download our GLODERM template (click here) to complete and upload the final file below.

Upload your 12-month programme timeline below

Programme needs

What are the primary needs in your residency programme that require funding?

Equipment

Education / Training Needs

Dermatology Services

Other

Please tick all that apply

Please specify 'Other' needs below:

Funding Information: What will this grant fund? Please outline this grant in context of the residency training programme.

Funding Need: Why is it critical for your programme to receive funding?

Additional Sources: List any additional sources and amounts of funding (current and projected).

Please provide information about the programme costs. We encourage you to review and answer the questions provided above within your response (250 words maximum).

Examples of funding include equipment or training materials (i.e. microscopes, dermatology books, pharmacy-related items, laboratory equipment, etc.), in-person training (i.e. cover transportation or accommodations fees of dermatology experts), certification fee, etc.

Funding request

Your institute must be willing to receive and process the grant for utilisation against the residency programme.

It is the applicants responsibility to check in advance if there are any indirect costs or facility fees associated with this. These costs must be included in the $20,000 USD budget allocation.

There is no limitation on the funding amount requested that goes to salaries or overhead expenses necessary to run the programme. Your total grant budget should not exceed $20,000 USD.

Grant funding cannot be used for the following:

- Debt retirement

- Costs already encumbered or to be reimbursed

- Lobbying and political activities

- Capital campaigns/improvements

- Evangelical work by religious organizations/Individuals

- Fundraising drives/events

- Events/Conferences production

- Endowment funds

- Travels or other costs not directly linked to the project

Requested funds may only be used for the specific programme request during a 1-year period, timeline for funding is negotiable. Please do add extra rows to the budget as needed.

Do you foresee any challenges or concerns with receiving this grant via your institute? This will not affect your application but will allow us to be clear on any requirements or considerations to be put into place for processing the grant to avoid delays.

If yes, please briefly describe your concern

Budget overview

How much funding in US$ do you wish to request for your residency programme? Maximum od US$20,000.00 available per programme

Please answer in numbers only including decimal points (i.e. 10000.00)

Please provide a budget overview for your programme. This must include:
- Activity / Service / Item for each cost
(e.g., operational costs, equipment, institutional fees, running costs, travel costs etc.)
- Description of each item in the budget
- Cost of each item in the budget in local currency
- Cost of each item in the budget converted to US $
- Amount requested from this grant towards each item in the budget
- Total costs

You may upload your own budget overview document or download our GLODERM template (click here) to complete and upload the final file below.

Upload your programme budget overview below

Letter of support

Please upload a signed letter from the Head of Department / authorised representative from your institute to confirm and validate details submitted in this application in relation to the residency programme and expected grant use.

This letter must be signed / stamped and dated on official institutional letterhead.

Please upload your signed letter of support below

Acknowledgements

By submitting this application and contingent on receiving funding, I agree with / to the following:

I am the principal coordinator in the programme / have provided contact details of the programme lead.
I will provide a 6-month and 12-month online report to GLODERM and CeraVe, including the programmes progress against specified metrics.
Phases and activities of the programme funded (as detailed in the grant application) will be completed within 1-year from receiving funds.
I have attached all supporting documents as necessary.
I hereby declare that the information provided is true and correct.
I understand that any wilful dishonesty may lead to the refusal of this application or funding.

Please tick the box below to confirm:

I have read and understood the above acknowledgements and confirm that this application is true to the best of my knowledge.

Submitter details

Please include the details of the person completing this form.

Full Name

Email Address

Telephone Number

Please include the country code

Role within Institute

Professor, Head of Department, Practitioner etc.

Date

Contact Information