AMEE offers a number of awards and prizes open to members and conference participants:
Lifetime Achievement Award
This awarded to someone who AMEE feels has made a considerable contribution to Medical and Healthcare Professions Education. The award is nominated by the AMEE Executive Committee and is presented at an AMEE Annual Conference.
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Miriam Friedman Ben-David Award
In memory of the late Miriam Friedman Ben-David, AMEE created a new Educator’s Award. AMEE Invites Nominations for this award on an annual basis. The Miriam Friedman Ben-David New Educator Award will go to a person who has made an extraordinary effort and contribution within the field of medical education in terms of design/implementation of innovative methods or approaches to teaching, curriculum, courses, assessment, evaluation of education or faculty development. This may be in undergraduate or postgraduate medical education, or in continuing professional development, and may take place at a local, regional, national or international level.
The Award is free registration to an AMEE Conference, plus £1,000 (no facilities and administration fee). The winner will also be invited to give a short communication at an AMEE Conference. The Award is presented at an AMEE Annual Conference.
This award is open to AMEE Members only.
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Poster Prize
The Medical Teacher Poster Prize is awarded annually at AMEE Conferences for the best poster, as judged by a Committee against published criteria.
The aim of the prize is to select examples of good practice in preparing posters.
The top three posters will be announced at the end of the closing plenary at the AMEE Conference.
The winner will receive free registration to an AMEE Conference, or a small cash prize.
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ePoster Prize
The AMEE ePoster Prize is awarded annually at AMEE Conferences for the best eposter, as judged by a Committee against published criteria.
The aim of the prize is to select examples of good practice in preparing and presentingeposters.
The winner will be announced in the closing plenary at the AMEE conference and will receive free registration to an AMEE Conference, or a small cash prize.
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Patil Teaching Innovation Award
The AMEE Patil Teaching Innovation Awards, formerly known as the Patil Awards, have been made possible through a donation from Professor Nivritti Patil, University of Hong Kong. The Awards will be made to participants at AMEE conferences who have presented a short communication that is judged by a Committee to have demonstrated innovation in relation to teaching and learning methods, assessment or curriculum planning.
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Research Grant Awards
AMEE introduced in 2012 a programme to provide financial support up to £10,000 (no facilities and administration fee) for educational research projects.
The AMEE Research Grant Award programme recognises the importance of research in health professions education. It will serve as a catalyst to promote excellence in research among AMEE members.
The receipt of a grant award will recognise the work of an individual or group both locally and internationally. Grants are intended to augment support for projects of up to £10,000 (no facilities and administration fee). Specifically, funding may be used for expenses incurred in the course of conducting research such as standardised patient fees, incentives for study participants, transcription fees, salary support for a research assistant and meetings of the research group. It cannot be used to provide salary support, computer or other equipment, travel (other than meetings of the research group), or institutional overhead costs.
Applications are accepted once a year and involve a 2-step process, pre-proposal and a full proposal.
This award is open to AMEE Individual and Student Members only.
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Student Initiatives Grant
The goal of this grant is to provide students with a funding contribution to support student-led activities that aim to improve medical education. These can be activities such as trainings, workshops, conferences, projects and so on. Examples of areas in which these activities could take place include but are not limited to: meaningful student engagement, improving the quality of medical education and research in medical education. You will find a short activity description of the most recent grant recipients in the links below:
Previous Grant Winners:
So far, the three winning projects selected in 2019 have not been implemented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The teams have provided their reformulation (including budgets), due to the limitations imposed by the prevention security measures.
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Ian Hart Award
This award is in memory of the late Ian Ritchie Hart and has been established to recognise an individual who has made an exceptional contribution to undergraduate, postgraduate or continuing medical education at a local, national, regional or international level. The award winner will have demonstrated the creativity, diligence, agility and leadership necessary to significantly advance the field of medical education. The individual will have demonstrated their achievements through their contributions to curriculum planning, teaching and learning, assessment, education management or some other aspect of medical education. The award will be made biennially with the first award presented at the 18th Ottawa Conference in Abu Dhabi in March 2018.
Read more about the Ian Hart Award for Innovation in Medical Education
Faculty Development Research Grants
AMEE introduced in 2018 a programme to provide financial support up to £2,000 (no facilities and administration fee) for faculty development research projects.
The Grant is intended to augment support for projects of up to £2,000 (no facilities and administration fee). Specifically, funding may be used for expenses incurred in the course of conducting research such as standardised patient fees, incentives for study participants, transcription fees, salary support for a research assistant and meetings of the research group. It cannot be used to provide salary support, computer or other equipment, travel (other than meetings of the research group), or institutional overhead costs.
Applications are accepted once a year and involve a 2-step process, pre-proposal and a full proposal.
This award is open to AMEE Individual and Student Members only.
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TEL Innovation Development Grant
Purpose
To stimulate the development of innovative approaches for the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning in health professions education.
Background
The AMEE TEL Committee Innovation Development Grant provides a stimulus for health professions educators to be creative in the development of new solutions to the educational challenges that they face. Examples of these educational challenges include exploring the potential application of a new technology, using a well-established technology in a novel way, or adapting currently available technology for low resource settings. The educational challenge and the development of a new and innovative solution to the challenge is entirely the choice of the applicant – but it should be creative and innovative!
Four grants, each of £1,000, will be awarded by the TEL Committee.
This award is open to AMEE individual or student members may apply.
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