Educational Grants Strategy and Areas of Focus
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics proudly supports professional educational activities that can educate health care professionals and/or patients about relevant disease states of interest to our company to achieve the overall goal of improving the quality of Health Care.
Review Process
The educational grant process ensures that we consistently operate within federal and state laws and industry standards, including tax guidelines, with regard to funding programs or activities for any organization or provider. We will comply with the FDA’s Guidance on Industry-Supported Scientific and Educational Activities and the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) guidelines when considering support for educational activities.
All requests are reviewed by a multi-disciplinary committee. All requests should be submitted and received at least 45 days before the scheduled event. The committee will evaluate each request and render a decision on whether the company should or should not support the request.
Eligibility Criteria
Requests for educational support must meet the eligibility criteria:
Requesting organization should be an academic institution, hospital, accredited provider, professional society, medical association, or patient advocacy group.
Educational grants must support bona fide educational activities and involve a scientific exchange of information with a medical focus or patient education.
Fellowship grants may only be provided to teaching institutions and affiliated hospital or medical society/association with a bona fide fellowship committee or a similar selection organization and process.
The amount requested for the fellowship must be commensurate with the activities to be performed by the fellow. Ordinary overhead expenses of the recipient institution cannot be included.
Request must be submitted directly by the requesting organization through the Educational Grants Extranet Application located on the company website.
Examples of requests that are not supported are:
Promotional events, operational overhead, administrative costs, or any event that has already occurred.
Activities from commercially-owned medical education and communication companies (MECCs) to provide education. (We can support a program run by an academic institution, hospital, accredited provider, professional society, or medical association in collaboration with a MECC. The funding must go to the academic institution, hospital, accredited provider, professional society or medical association.)
Travel, conference expenses or honoraria for program attendees presenting a "poster presentation:" or "free paper".
In order for your request to receive consideration, the Company requires the request to be formally submitted in writing, at least 45 days prior to the date of the event. Please note there is a sixty (60) minute time limit to enter your request on-line and you cannot save a partially completed request to complete at a later time. Make sure you have all the required information readily available prior to entering your request. Submit the written request on your organization’s letterhead along with the following:
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A detailed explanation of the purpose |
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Include a copy of the learning objectives or course outline |
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The title of the event |
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Location of event |
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Needs assessment |
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The date(s) of the event |
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Number of attendees |
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The amount of funding being requested |
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A detailed budget (see our budget template) |
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The organization’s 9-digit tax ID number and W-9 |
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A statement verifying that the Company will have not involvement in the selection of faculty |
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A statement verifying that the organization is an independent, accredited CE program sponsor if appropriate and the number of CE credits |
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A completed CE Provider Questionnaire (must be completed by the accreditor and uploaded to the extranet application – click on link to view questionnaire) |
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A completed Educational Partner Questionnaire (must be completed by the accreditor and uploaded to the extranet application – click on link to view questionnaire) |
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A statement of assurance that if the educational activity includes content on off-label uses of the Company products, the program sponsor would communicate to attendees the fact that any off-label uses for the Company products are not approved within the United States |
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Assurance that there has been no condition of purchase, use, or recommendation of Company products associated with this request for funding |
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Enclose any other supporting documentation that may help facilitate this request. |
To begin your application for an educational grant, please click here to access the Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Educational Grants Extranet Application.
All questions related to the Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Educational Grants process must be sent via e-mail directly to OCDGrants@its.jnj.com.