BRITISH SOCIETY FOR ORAL MEDICINE PRIZE 2011
The British Society for Oral Medicine offers two prizes to encourage research in the field of Oral
Medicine:i) for young workers (junior prize)
ii) no age limit.
The regulations governing the award of the prizes are as follows:1. The Prizes shall be known as ‘The British Society for Oral Medicine Prizes’. The value of the junior
prize will be £200, the second prize has no monetary value. Entrants are required to present the
papers at the Annual Meeting of the Society during the year in which the prizes are to be awarded.
2. The British Society for Oral Medicine reserves the right to withhold the award of the prize if entries are
of insufficient merit.
3. Assessment for award of the prizes will be based on an essay and the verbal presentation. The
subject matter must be a piece of original research, which may have been previously published. The
entrant must be the sole author of the competing paper, but the work may be presented on behalf of a
research group. The text of the entry should be not more than 2,000 words (figures and tables may
be included) and should be in the approximate form of the verbal presentation to be made at the
meeting.
4. Candidates for the junior prize should be not more than 40 years of age on 1 January in the year of
the award. Entrants must be fully subscribed members of the British Society for Oral Medicine. No
one individual may win an award on more than one occasion, but may be eligible to win both.
5. The list of candidates will remain confidential and only the name of the winner of the award will be
made public.
6. The prize shall be awarded by the Society on the recommendation of a panel of three assessors
appointed annually for this purpose and such additional assessors as the Council may wish to
consult. The assessors, at their discretion, may divide the prize between two candidates.
7. Entrants should submit an abstract to the local organising committee of the annual scientific meeting.
8. All applications should be sent to the Secretary at the address below. Candidates are required to
submit by noon on Friday 1 April 2011.
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Four copies of an abstract suitable for inclusion in the annual meeting programme
Four copies of the text of the paper
A completed entry form obtainable from the Secretary by email to crispian.scully@eastman.ucl.ac.uk
CLOSING DATE FOR PRIZE ENTRIES - noon on Friday 1 April 2011
Abstracts must also be submitted to the meeting organiser before the 4 March 2011 deadline.
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