I've been asked to circulate this student scholarship announcement
for the Society for Clinical Trials, which a number of UK students
have been recipients of in the past. Please contact Steve Goodman
([log in to unmask]) for further details.
STUDENT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
23rd ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL TRIALS
May 12-15, 2002, Arlington, Virginia
Deadline: December 3, 2001
www.sctweb.org
The Society for Clinical Trials Student Scholarship Program 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 2002 SCT Annual
Meeting, and for 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 of 12 point
text (references can be on an additional page), plus a maximum of 3
total figures and/or tables. Abstracts should be submitted on an
official SCT abstract form, which can be obtained at www.sctweb.org.
Seven copies of the abstract and the 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, particularly that of the student.
The deadline for submissions is December 3, 2001. 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 early January. 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, 2002. A session at
the 23rd Annual Meeting will be set aside for Student Scholarship paper
presentations, followed by discussion.
AWARDS
The three 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. In addition, the student judged
to have the best paper and presentation at the meeting will receive 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
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Phone: (410) 433-4722
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
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Fax: (410) 955-0859
Keith R. Abrams
Professor of Medical Statistics
Department of Epidemiology & Public Health
University of Leicester
22-28 Princess Road West
Leicester, U.K.
LE1 6TP
Tel +44 (0)116 252 3217
FAX +44 (0)116 252 3272
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http://www.prw.le.ac.uk/~keitha
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