Awards and Prizes: Smiths Medical Travel Fellowship <<back
Rules
  1. The participant must be recognized by the HPCSA as a Specialist Anaesthesiologist.


  2. The subject of the paper must be an original presentation and related to Vascular Access, Patient safety or Pain Management. The presentation need not be based
    on original research.


  3. The Congress Scientific Committee will select the best papers to compete for the- award.


  4. The recipient must be resident in Southern Africa (neighboring states included).


  5. The recipient must undertake to spend at least 2 of the 5 years following the year
    of the award practicing anaesthesia in Southern Africa.


  6. The award will be made regardless of the social, cultural or racial background of
    the recipient


  7. The recipient shall not have been awarded the prize in the preceding 5 years.


  8. Each candidate will be allowed at least 25 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussion.


  9. The intention to participate, the title, and, if required, the full text of the presentation must be submitted to the Congress Organisers before the specific dates prescribed by the Congress Organisers.


  10. A panel of 3-5 judges will be appointed by the Organizing Committee to judge the presentation at the Congress, and each judge should be aware of and have access to a copy of these rules.


  11. The award shall be made on the following basis:


      12. 11.1 Applicability to Rule 2 above Vascular Access, Pain Management and Patient Safety;
      11.2 Originality of the presentation and contribution to new anaesthetic knowledge.


  12. The award shall consist of a return airfare and daily subsistence for a period of 2 weeks in the United States. The travel subsistence allowance has been increased to 3750 US Dollars (three thousand seven hundred and fifty)

  13. During this period the recipient will visit the Smiths Medical premises in the USA and should visit areas or individuals concerned with his/her special interests in anaesthesia.

  14. A report on the trip will be given at the Smiths Medical Alumni Dinner at the Congress immediately following the year in which the prize was won.