TASME Awards

• Candidates must be TASME members to be eligible to enter
• Clinical Teaching Fellows or similar educational role such as:
• • Trainees who teach medical students, doctors and other healthcare professionals with a formal educational role
  • Other healthcare educators who are in an accredited postgraduate training program

Complete application form and send it to awards@tasme.org.uk

Applicants will be assessed on the basis of demonstrating:

• Innovative thinking and activity in medical education
• Talent and skill in teaching or other educational activity
• Insight into the issues pertinent to their area of medical education (e.g. undergraduate, post-graduate, specific issues in certain clinical settings or disciplines)
• Passion, commitment and engagement with wider teams and institutions (e.g. medical school, hospital, deanery)
• Sustainable, lasting change of educational practice at a personal level or within the institution in which they have been teaching

Applications will be independently scored by three independent markers according to the scoring criteria, with a final numerical score assigned, and comments gathered and fed back to candidates.

The highest scoring candidates will be invited to present at the ASME ASM. Successful applicants will be informed by end May 2017 and will need to register to attend ASME’s ASM in June to proceed to the finals.

Successful finalists will be invited to competitively present their work during the ASME ASM, which will be advertised to attract a wide audience of delegates. Candidates will be given ten minutes for their presentation. This time can be used to demonstrate skills in any suitable method, such as a presentation, a teaching session or demonstration of resources. Multimedia technology may be used, although if specialist equipment is required this should be negotiated in advance. There will be five minutes for questions from the panel and audience. The panel of four judges will assess the presenters on:

• Demonstration of innovation
• Evidence of excellent educational practice
• Relevance and inspiration for wider population, in particular other trainees
• Evidence of sustainability
• Presentation style

The winner plus first and second runners up will be announced at the end of the session.

Free admission to the ASME ASM 2017, certificate and name on the TIE Prize Shield.

Powerpoints of the shortlisted candidates will be uploaded to the TASME website after the ASM.

30th April 2017 5pm: Deadline for applications

May 2017: Shortlisting

Week commencing 8th May 2017: Latest date for notifying finalists

21st-23rd June (ASME ASM, Exeter): Presentation and prize-giving

• Candidates must be TASME members to be eligible to enter
• First named author is a trainee - FY2 doctors and above (postgraduate doctor who has not yet achieved certificate of completion of training)
• Poster MUST be on display at the ASM on the 23rd June
• Candidates have shown a commitment to medical education – the following list is suggested but not exhaustive:
• • Clinical Teaching Fellows or similar educational role
  • Trainees who regularly teach medical students, doctors and other healthcare professionals without a formal educational role
  • Other healthcare educators who are in an accredited postgraduate training program

Candidates must notify TASME before 5pm on the 22nd May 2017 should they wish to be considered for the prize. Please send a PDF copy of the poster to awards@tasme.org.uk with a subject line “TASME Poster Prize”.

Eligible candidates will be assessed by the Prizes and Awards panel on the following:

• Relevance of the project to medical education
• Proven/potential impact based on Kirkpatrick's model of evaluation
• Evidence of excellent educational practice

A maximum of 10 shortlisted candidates will be notified on the 9th June and asked to label their poster with a TASME sticker to be collected from the TASME stand at the ASM.

Shortlisted posters must be labelled with a TASME sticker at the ASM and will then be reviewed at the conference, with judging on (in addition to the shortlisting criteria):

• Creativity and innovation
• Evidence of sustainability
• Poster layout, accuracy and appeal

The winner plus two runners up will be announced at the ASME conference and provided with a certificate to indicate their achievement.

Notable posters will be indicated with a star – 1st, 2nd and 3rd. PDF’s of the shortlisted posters will also be uploaded to the TASME website.

The winner will be awarded a free copy of the textbook: Understanding Medical Education (2nd edition) Editor: Professor Tim Swanwick

22nd May 2017: Deadline for PDF submission

June: Shortlisting of posters

9th June 2017: Deadline for informing candidates of shortlisting

21st June 2017: Day of judging of posters

23rd June 2017 (ASME ASM, Exeter): Presentation and prizes.

• Candidates must be TASME members to be eligible to enter
• First named author is a trainee (postgraduate doctor who has not yet achieved certificate of completion of training)
• Prospective applications only, retrospective applications will not be considered
• Candidates need not be in a formal teaching role
• Results to be presented at the ASM

The winner must submit a video to be played at the ASME ASM – 5 minutes maximum. The video presentation can be animated, camera blog, Prezzi etc. The video will also be uploaded to the TASME website after the ASM.

Download the scoring criteria here. This should be used to focus the application.Then send completed application form to awards@tasme.org.uk

Eligible applicants will be scored on the following:

• Innovation and proposed project
• Educational benefit
• Target audience
• Use of the bursary money
• Proposed duration and longevity of the event
• Planning for handover and ensuring continuity
• Evidence of medical educational research and evidence base

Up to £200 for the candidate to claim back to cover costs.

Free entry to the RME conference 2017.

• February 2017: TASME Bursary announcement
• 30th April 2017: Deadline for applications
• May 2017: Notification of winner. The winner will be asked to submit a short video explaining their project, which will be shown at the ASME ASM in June and subsequently uploaded onto the TASME website
• 21 - 23rd June 2017 (ASME ASM, Exeter): Video presentation.