ASA January 2003 Newsletter

ASA resident members are reminded that April 1, 2003, is the deadline for receipt of entries in the Residents’ Research Essay Contest. Three prize-winners will be invited to present their papers at the ASA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California, in October 2003. The rules for entry are:

Eligibility

1. The entrant or co-entrant(s) must be a member of ASA at the time of submission.

2. The work reported should have been completed during residency or research fellowship training in an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited program in anesthesiology. Research performed as a student may be considered.

3. Papers should be submitted while in training or within one year after completion of training.

Submission of Entry

1. A letter from the residency program director confirming eligibility must accompany each submission.

2. Concurrent submission of an abstract of the work for presentation as a regular scientific paper at the ASA Annual Meeting is required. That submission should be prepared using the ASA abstract submission material in accordance with the rules and deadlines for submission of regular ASA scientific abstracts and submitted independently of the essay contest application.

3. Manuscripts should follow the format provided in the “Guide for Authors” of the journal Anesthesiology. The work should not have been presented, published or submitted to any other meeting, journal or residents’ essay contest prior to this submission. A limit of 25 double-spaced pages, including all figures, tables and references, will be enforced; manuscripts that exceed the page limit will not be reviewed.

The original and 21 copies of the manuscript must be received by April 1, 2003, by the office of the Chair of the Committee on Research, Michael K. Cahalan, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology, University of Utah, 30 N. 1900 E., Room 3C444, Salt Lake City, UT 84132.

Complete guidelines for application are available from residency program directors or from the ASA Executive Office, 520 N. Northwest Highway, Park Ridge, IL 60068-2573. Guidelines for the submission of ASA Annual Meeting scientific papers are also available from the ASA Executive Office and the ASA Web site. The “Guide for Authors” for the journal Anesthesiology can be found in the January issue of the journal.

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