Newsletter March 2003
PEET PRIZE

Eligibility : All full / life members of APSI

Submission of papers : The paper should be of high standard and should have originality. It should be relevant to the Indian context. If experience of a long series of cases is being presented, it is preferable to include a statistical analysis also. New ideas and innovation /new achievements and feats can be presented. Modification of techniques, highlighting cost-effectiveness and superiority of results, development of newer instruments etc.

The papers to be presented in “Peet Prize Session” should be marked on the envelope. Each participant should send 4 copies of the full text of the paper alongwith photographs and illustrations etc. to Secretary, APSI. The last date for sending the paper is 31st May for the year. The author also needs to submit an undertaking that the same work has not been published earlier.

Acceptance : The final acceptance of the paper will be communicated to the participants by 30th July of the year, by Secretary, APSI. The screening committee for such acceptance will consist of : Dr. Mukund Reddy, Dr. A.K. Singh and Dr. P.S. Bhandari for the years 2003-2005. Secretary APSI will also inform the Organising Secretary of APSICON for that year about the acceptance of such papers. Authors who still wish to present their papers in APSICON for the year if their papers are not accepted for the Peet Prize Session will have to themselves submit the same to the organising secretary of the conference.

Time of Presentation : Ten minutes will be allowed for presentation, to be followed by 3 minutes discussion. Anybody from the audience is free to ask questions on the presentation.

Judges : Dr. B.M. Daver, Dr. Suresh Gupta and Dr. James Pandian will be Judges for the years 2003-2005. However, if they are not attending APSICON that year other senior persons may be appointed as judges.

The judges will mark the individual participant’s performance by allocating marks to them for presentation, content, quality of slides, clinical importance of work, acquisition of technical skills and overall performance. Assessment sheets will be handed over to the Secretary, APSI immediately after the end of the Peet Prize Session.

It stands confirmed that Peet Prize is for oral presentation, and even if there is a single paper approved by the selection committee, it would not qualify for an award till the paper is presented and adjudged to be award winning by the Judges.