Second-degree External Funding Sources?

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RyanS32122

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Hi Everyone:
I'm a PG-2 psychiatric resident up at Dartmouth, and I am completing a M.Ed. degree at another institution and was wondering if anyone knows of external funding sources (grants/aid/etc) that might grant money to residents for a second degree/etc. It's a long shot, but thought I'd ask.

Thanks everyone.

Ryan
 
Here's what I understand about grants:
1) find an appropriate funding source of free grants, like grants.gov, etc. google to find others...
2) write a grant proposal (you can do it yourself or hire someone to write it for you), you can find an outline of how to write it on the web if you google it.
3) send it to them..
another option is to ask your school for a scholarship.
if you want to pay them back, just get a student loan.
 
RyanS32122 said:
Hi Everyone:
I'm a PG-2 psychiatric resident up at Dartmouth, and I am completing a M.Ed. degree at another institution and was wondering if anyone knows of external funding sources (grants/aid/etc) that might grant money to residents for a second degree/etc. It's a long shot, but thought I'd ask.

Thanks everyone.

Ryan
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Never heard of grants for master's-level programs.

Plenty of loan programs out there, though.
 
atsai3 said:
Never heard of grants for master's-level programs.

Plenty of loan programs out there, though.
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NIH T32s are precisely for master's programs. These are institutional, rather than trainee-originated. All of the Fellows at Penn doing a Masters in Translational Research or Masters in Clinical Epidemiology are on one, and fully covered. This grant was given to Penn, though, not the fellows.

I guess look carefully at where you could to a M. Ed., and see where tuition is covered. I don't know if there'd be any NIH dollars for an M.Ed program, though.
 
HumbleMD said:
NIH T32s are precisely for master's programs. These are institutional, rather than trainee-originated. All of the Fellows at Penn doing a Masters in Translational Research or Masters in Clinical Epidemiology are on one, and fully covered. This grant was given to Penn, though, not the fellows.
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Not entirely true. T32s are for training researchers (pre-doc, post-doc, clinical/basic research residents and fellows). The research comes first, the Master's degree is secondary. Even those fellows not getting one of those degrees but who are doing research in their upper level years are probably getting paid on a T32. The T32 doesn't actually pay for the degree but most institutes will just eat that cost since they also don't have to pay their fellows for a couple of years and can still get some clinical work out of them for free.

Many of us got paid on those grants but didn't get the degrees because, after getting a PhD on my own, why bother with a fake Master's degree?
 
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