Is there any specific guidance for calculating person months for individuals with VA appointments?
When dealing with individuals that have a joint University/VA appointment, the grantee should focus first on the University appointment when they are figuring out person months. If VA effort is also devoted to the project, the grantee should continue to reflect the effort on a separate line item of the personnel section. For example: 10% Univ. appointment would be listed as 1.2 mos on one line of the budget & 15% VA appointment would be 1.8 mos on another. Or if this is a Modular grant then the grantee should reflect this information in the budget justification identifying his/hers appointment type (i.e. calendar, academic and/or summer months). When dealing with the concept of total professional effort, it is still appropriate to reflect overall responsibility proportional totals as percentages of total. This would be acceptable since you are potentially dealing with clinical, administrative, teaching and/or research responsibilities within each appointment. However, grantees have the
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