Opportunity
PROMOTION OF DOCTORAL STUDIES (PODS) I, II SCHOLARSHIPS & COMBINED PODS II/NIFTI
Award Info:
Scholarship categories within the PODS program have been established for the three distinct phases of education and training:
PODS I – $7, 500 In support of the coursework phase of post-professional doctoral studies prior to candidacy (as defined by the applicant’s institution). A PODS I scholarship is competitively renewable for a maximum of one additional year (new application required each year).
PODS II – Up to $15,000 in support of the post-candidacy phase of post-professional doctoral studies (as defined by the applicant’s institution). A PODS II scholarship is competitively renewable for a maximum of one additional year (new application required each year).
Combined PODS II/NIFTI – Up to $115,000 in support of the final year of the post-candidacy phase + the first two years of the research fellowship (as defined by applicant’s institution(s)). This is a nonrenewable award.
Description:
The intent of FPTR is to fund the most highly qualified post-professional doctoral students within the applicant pool and to ensure that the physical therapy profession benefits from the commitment, scholarship, and teaching of these individuals. These scholarships will help develop a supply of post-professional, doctorally prepared researchers who will add to or refine the body of evidence on which physical therapist practice is based.
Proposed projects should begin to address the most critical questions regarding clinical research and explain how the project(s) will contribute to the needs of the physical therapy profession, including implications for physical theory and practice, and its relationhip, if any, to the Research Agenda (RA). If a proposed project does not directly address a question or questions in the RA, the applicant must explain how the project will enable them to directly address the RA in the future. The RA i provided as a guide to identification of the critical research questions in physical therapy.