A reminder below about a program posted last month. We would love to get UK
submissions - 2 of our top 4 last year were from the UK. Please bring this
to the attention of any good students you might know who work in this field,
and feel free to re-post this on any other stat, epi or clinical trial
electronic or physical bulletin boards that you have access to that such
students or their mentors might see. Thanks to all.
                                                Steve G.
                   
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Steven Goodman, MD, MHS PhD
Associate Professor of Oncology, Pediatrics, Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Department of Oncology, Division of Biostatistics
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
550 N. Broadway, Suite 1103
Baltimore, MD 21209

Phone: 410-955-4596
Fax:   410-955-0859
Sec:   410-614-3432
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STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
22nd ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL TRIALS
May 20 - 23, 2001, DENVER, COLORADO

Deadline: December 1, 2000

www.sctweb.org
www.sctweb.org/student_scholarship_program.cfm


The Society for Clinical Trials Student Scholarship Program of the Society
for Clinical Trials was established to stimulate student involvement in the
area of clinical trials, and to reward excellent work in this area. Students
are invited to submit abstracts, along with a short manuscript (not to
exceed three pages), for consideration for presentation at the 2001 SCT
Annual Meeting, and the awards described at the end of this announcement.

ELIGIBILITY 

All students enrolled in a degree program of an accredited college or
university, post-doctoral fellows, or physicians enrolled in an accredited
residency program are eligible. The manuscript must relate to original work
that has not yet been published. Student eligibility will be assessed by the
committee at the time of submission.

TOPICS

Sample topics include (but are not limited to): methods to design or analyze
a specific trial or class of clinical trials; review of results or methods
of a class of trials; medical, legal or ethical issues related to clinical
trials;  data entry, management, and computing as applied to clinical
trials, or scholarship in the history of clinical trials. Results of
individual clinical trials or meta-analyses are of interest if they
illustrate a methodologic advance in design or analysis, or if their results
have methodologic implications.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AND DEADLINE

Manuscripts should be no more than three double-spaced pages. Abstracts
should be submitted on an official SCT abstract form. Seven copies of both
abstract and short manuscript should be submitted. A letter from the
student's faculty advisor stating that he/she is a bona fide student and
briefly describing the student's course of study should accompany the
submission. If the manuscript is co-authored, this letter should also
include an indication of the level of involvement of the various authors.
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2000. Student scholarship
abstracts may not be submitted online.

REVIEW 

Selections are made by the Student Scholarship Committee. Three students are
expected to be named as presenters. These winners will be notified by
January 3. The student who submitted the work must be available to travel to
the meeting and present their paper. They are required to provide
Scholarship committee members with a copy of the complete paper to be
presented at the Annual Meeting by March 15, 2001. A session at the 22nd
Annual Meeting will be set aside for Student Scholarship paper presentations
followed by discussion.

AWARDS 

Those students selected to present papers will be invited to the meeting
with all fees waived and travel and living expenses paid, subject to a
negotiable $1750 US limit. The student judged to have the best paper and
presentation at the meeting will receive in addition the Thomas C. Chalmers
Student Scholarship prize and a $500 cash award.


OBTAIN ABSTRACT FORMS/
MAIL MANUSCRIPTS TO:

Secretariat 
Society for Clinical Trials, Inc.
600 Wyndhurst Avenue
Baltimore, Maryland 21210
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
FAX: (410) 435-8631

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Steven Goodman, MD, PhD
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Oncology Center / Division of Biostatistics
550 N. Broadway, Suite 1103
Baltimore, MD 21205

e-mail: [log in to unmask]
Fax: (410) 955-0859




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