The MERIT Faculty Fellowship provides mentorship and supervision in health professions education research. The goal of the program is to increase the number of education scholars within the Faculty of Health Sciences at McMaster University.

The fellowship provides funding to protect time for a faculty member to develop a year-long, tailored experience in conducting high-quality education research. A MERIT scientist(s) will partner with the fellow to serve as a project supervisor and fellowship mentor.

The fellow will:

• complete a scholarly education project, either a research project or evaluation of an innovation;
• design a personalized curriculum to help them acquire the necessary skills to complete their project and acquire the foundational abilities of an education scholar. Learning opportunities may include formal courses, semi-structured seminars, guided readings etc.
• join the MERIT community.

Up to two fellowships will be awarded each year.