Young Investigator's Award Rules
1. The
award of $500 is bestowed by the President of the International
Council on Electrocardiology during the closing ceremony of the
International Congress of Electrocardiology. A second prize of $300
and a third prize of $200 are also awarded.
2. The Young Investigator's
Award should be managed by the Member of the Council designated as the
Young Investigator Award Chairman. This individual should liaise
closely with the local President of the Congress in the organization
of the competition.
3. A jury of at least four members of the
International Council should be chosen each year to select the
winner. They would normally include the Chairman of the Young
Investigator's Award Competition and the President of the Congress,
together with the President and President Elect of the Council. If
specific expertise is required to judge one or more presentations,
member(s) of the council with the required knowledge should be added
to the jury. None of the jury should have a connection with the
research being presented; if so, another member of the Council should
take his/her place. The Organizer of the Congress should make
arrangements for six finalists to present their research in a plenary
session devoted to "The Young Investigator's
Award".
4. Each YIA submission should describe a
scientific investigation in the field of electrocardiology, a
substantial portion of which is the product of the candidate. If
multiple names are included in the authors' list, the Head of the
candidate's Department should provide a supporting statement outlining
the contribution of the candidate.
5. Each
YIA scientist, who must be under 35 years of age at the date of the
Congress, is entitled to apply for the Award by submitting one and
only one abstract of his/her work to the Congress. Previous
finalists who have won a first, second or third prize are not eligible
to compete again. A young investigator in training is not
expected to have his/her own research funds nor are they expected to
be leading a research team, i.e., an entrant should not be an
established investigator.
6. The abstract should be submitted in
electronic form using the conference abstract submission system. The
abstract should be accompanied by the following
declaration:
"The (first named) author requests that this
abstract be considered for 'The Young Investigator's Award'. The
(first named) author certifies that the results are based on original
research in which he/she has made a primary contribution. Furthermore,
this author certifies to being less than thirty-five years of age at
the date of the Congress".
Signature of Author
...................................................
I certify
that the author was primarily responsible for the work described in
the abstract.
Signature of Sponsor, e.g. Head of Department
.......................................................
Date
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7. From all applications submitted for "The ISE
Young, Investigator's Award", six candidates should be selected. This
review and selection should be carried out by at least five members of
the International Council on Electrocardiology, including the Jury as
outlined in clause 3. The Young Investigator Award Chairman will be
responsible for selecting the members of the panel who will be asked
to review and score all the abstracts submitted for the Award. None of
the reviewers should be linked to any of the research in the abstracts
under consideration. The Chairman of the Young Investigator's
Competition should view all scores and then choose the best six as
finalists. At no time should selection of abstracts be based on
geographic considerations--only scientific merit should be
considered.
8. The Young Investigator Award session at the
Annual Congress should be chaired by the Young Investigator Award
Chairman and the President of the Council. They must ensure that time
guidelines are met and in the event that questions pose difficulties
of understanding due to language barriers, they can allow sympathetic
assistance within the time guidelines.
9. The Council should try to
find a means of publishing the abstracts of those presentations given
in "The Young Investigator's Award" session, if possible, in the
Journal of Electrocardiology. Abstracts that are not presented in any
session, or are presented by someone other than the Young
Investigator, should not be published.
Last modified:
November 29, 2017 by Rob MacLeod