This is an award for young researchers, comprising of a medal, a certificate and a cash prize of Rs. 10000.
The applicants should have at least one previous publication in Geriatric Mental Health and should be less than 45 years of age on the last date of submission of the award paper. Only members of IAGMH are eligible for contesting for this award. The current work submitted for the award should be unpublished, original research.
Members desirous of contesting for the awards should submit a soft copy of the unpublished paper to the Chairman, Awards Committee. In addition to the covering letter, all the authors of the award paper have to submit an undertaking duly signed by all the authors that they are aware about the submission of the paper and that they are aware of the content of the paper (format as per the contributor’s form available in the JGMH website), as well as the proof of birth of the principal author. The authors also must agree to the clause that if their paper wins the award, then the paper will be published in Journal of Geriatric Mental Health, the official journal of the Association.
Evaluation:
The format for submitting the award papers should be as per ‘Instructions for authors in Journal of Geriatric Mental Health’. The papers found eligible for contesting for the awards will be evaluated by a committee of 5 experts independently, for evaluation of the content. The experts would be professionals of Geriatric Mental Health with high integrity, nominated by the Chairperson, Awards Committee (preferably one from each zone).
There will be a total of 100 marks allotted to each paper, 60 for theory and 40 for presentation.
The theory experts will assess the papers objectively on the following parameters; each will be assigned 12 points. The total marks shall be 60.
- Topic, hypothesis & conceptualization of the work
- Methodology, Review of literature and References
- Observations, results and discussion.
- Conclusions and implications on Geriatric Mental Health
- Elegance of writing, clarity, lucidity and overall presentation
A total of 3 papers will be selected for oral presentation, among the highest scorers of the theory evaluation. These papers will go on to compete for the oral presentation at the annual conference of the said year, which will be intimated to the qualifying authors by the Chairperson, Awards Committee.
There will be 3 judges to judge the oral presentation at the time of the conference. A total of 40 marks will be awarded, judged on the following parameters, of 10 marks each:
- Presentation of relevant literature
- Clarity of slides, tables, results and discussion
- Ability to defend hypothesis and answer questions
- Overall impression and lucidity of presentation
The award winners will be decided according to a total of the theory and oral marks obtained.
There will be a single award given to the highest scorer, and in case of a tie, the prize money would be divided equally among the winners, and both would receive certificates and medals.
Common note for all awards:
The Prof. Shiv Gautam Oration winner will receive the award in the inaugural function (medal, certificate and cash prize) the same year. The IAGMH Annual award winners and the Smt. Shweta Tiwari Memorial award winner will be announced in the valedictory function. The Smt. Shweta Tiwari Memorial Award and IAGMH Annual Awards will be presented in the inauguration function of the next GERON i.e. Annual conference of IAGMH.
All papers would automatically become the property of the Journal of the IAGMH i.e., JGMH and would be published in the same.