Note:
- Only Full paper submitted will be considered eligible for screening.
- Please don’t send paper to Head office of IAPSM or IJCM.
- The papers should be original, unpublished and un-awarded anywhere else
- Only Life Members of IAPSM are eligible for these awards.
- Only FIRST Authors of the Papers are awarded.
- Jury’s decision on the Award winners will be final and binding. Their names will be
announced in the Valedictory Function of the Conference
(where they have presented the paper).
Shri HM Patel Trophy for Young Scientist:
Shri HM Patel Memorial Trophy was initiated to generate the interest in research among junior IAPSM members. A rotatory trophy is given away to the winners of the oral presentation in the scientific session held in the Annual conference of the IAPSM-GC.
Persons who are considered for the award are:
- Not more than 45 years,
- Not holding a post above the rank of Assistant Professor (or equivalent post) or currently registered as postgraduate student (all courses other than PhD).
- Participant should be a medical graduate and the member of the chapter.
Other conditions: Paper considered, should be based on original research work and the person considered should be the first and the presenting author of the work. If the need arises, the author has to produce a certificate of this effect, signed by all the co-authors.
Selection for the winner: All the participants are assessed by a panel of minimum of 3 judges formed by the Organizing Secretary. Result is announced in the closing function or the GBM of the chapter and the trophy and certificate are presented there.
Award – Research : Guidelines and Process to Apply for Awards
To acknowledge the in research talent field and promote the research in young members particular total five awards are given to the members.
All of these are awarded for papers presented during the National Conference of IAPSM except last one which is awarded from the all research published articles in Indian Journal of Community Medicine.
Process for Applying & Selection (For first four Awards)
- Submit Full Paper to the Organizing Secretary of the National IAPSM conference within the stipulated date for submission of Papers as decided by organizing secretary of National Conference.
- No need for applying for B.K. Mahajan Award. This one is chosen by the Editorial Board of IJCM from amongst the papers published in IJCM in a calendar year.
Selection of Awardee :
Only FULL Paper received and accepted for Oral Presentation by the Conference Organizing Secretary will be considered for these Awards.
All full papers received for presentation in the Conference will be screened for their suitability for Oral Presentations. (Papers not selected for oral presentation will the allowed as posters if found suitable by the Conference Organizer).
All full papers found suitable for Oral Presentation will be evaluated by the Scientific Program Committee of the Conference and given a score based on certain objective criteria, e.g, Relevance for Public Health, Objectives, Methodology and study design and findings
Top 12 papers will be short listed for the “Award Papers Session” to be held as a Plenary Session in the Conference (usually on the 2nd day of the Conference). The short listed candidates will be informed about this session by the Organizing Secretary of the Conference. The short listed candidates will have to bring a proof of their age and hand it over to the Jury before the presentation begins.
Only the First Authors of the short listed papers will have to present their papers (Total duration of presentation will be 10 minutes of which 8 minutes are for presentation).
The presented papers will be judged by a Jury of 3-4 eminent persons against a set of predecided criteria and given a score. Score of the Jury members will be averaged out to get a Final Score for each paper.
The FOUR Winners will be selected as per eligibility criteria for each award.
If, for a particular award, no suitable candidate is found, the Award will not be given in that year.
Awarding the Winners :
The Awardees will be awarded a Certificate for these awards and the same will be presented to them during the Inaugural function of the next National Conference of IAPSM.
The Awardees will have to be present in person to receive the Award (no in-absentia presentation is made). It is mandatory that the Awardees register himself/ herself as a delegate for the Conference.
The Awardee can include the Award in his/her CV after receiving the Award.
Note:
- Only Full paper submitted will be considered eligible for screening.
- Please don’t send paper to Head office of IAPSM or IJCM.
- The papers should be original, unpublished and un-awarded anywhere else
- Only Life Members of IAPSM are eligible for these awards.
- Only FIRST Authors of the Papers are awarded.
- Jury’s decision on the Award winners will be final and binding. Their names will be announced in the Valedictory Function of the Conference (where they have presented the paper).