 SA
resident members are reminded that April 1, 2005,
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 New Orleans, Louisiana, in October 2005.
The rules for entry are:
Eligibility
| 1. The entrant must be a member of
ASA at the time of submission. Any
co-entrant(s) may or may not be a member of
ASA. |
| 2. The work reported should have been completed
during residency or research fellowship training.
Research performed as a student may be considered. |
| 3. Papers should be submitted during or within
one year following completion of the training. |
| 4. A previous entry or award does not preclude
eligibility. |
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, 2005, 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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