2019 APEG ASM Website

TRAVEL GRANTS AND AWARDS

The deadline for travel grant applications will be strictly adhered to ensure a fair system is open to all members. All Grants are assessed by an independent committee selected by APEG Council.

APEG TRAVEL GRANT

APEG Travel Grants will be open to all financial APEG members, who are within 5 years of completing their FRACP (or equivalent), who are either Australian or New Zealand citizens or who have been a resident in Australia for one or more years at the time of the ASM and have submitted an abstract which has been accepted (to the ASM). Travel grants are not open to those persons who are only attending the Fellows Meeting.

Salaried consultants are not eligible for a grant.

Your head of department will be contacted to check your eligibility for the grant.

To apply for a travel grant, please select which grant you would like to apply for during the online abstract submission process, and an APEG representative will be in contact closer to the conference date to confirm if your request was approved and to advise of the value of the grant awarded.

An allotment of money is put aside each year for travel grants. This is then shared amongst those who apply and fulfil the criteria. Therefore, there are no funds available for late applications.

You must indicate your application for the travel grant at the time of submitting your abstract. You must also declare any other requests for funding you have received, or applied for.

DEADLINE: THURSDAY 23 MAY 2019 5PM NSW TIME

NURSING AND ALLIED HEALTH GRANTS

To apply for the Nursing and Allied Health Travel Grant you must:

- Be a financial member of APEG (membership to be applied for and confirmed before application can be made)
- Be a registered nurse or allied health professional working with children and adolescents with diabetes or endocrine disorders.
- Submit an abstract for, or be a speaker at the Conference.

The amount offered will be up to $1000.00 per person + a complimentary registration to the full event (Sunday 1st – Wednesday 4th September 2019).

Please note, that a limited amount of funding is available for these grants, so your application does not guarantee that you will be awarded a grant. Grants will be advised a fortnight after the closing date but not paid until 2 weeks prior to the conference start date.

You must indicate your application for the allied health travel grant at the time of submitting your abstract. You must also declare any other requests for funding you have received, or applied for.

DEADLINE: THURSDAY 23 MAY 2019 5PM NSW TIME

APEG EMERGING INVESTIGATOR AWARD

This award is presented at the APEG Annual Scientific Meeting to the best scientific presentation by an APEG member within 5 years (or equivalent full time*) of completing their specialist qualifications (eg: FRACP, PhD, MD etc, whichever is earliest). APEG members with established research track records, as evidenced by high impact publications and/or success in post-doctoral research grant funding in Paediatric Endocrinology would not normally be considered appropriate candidates for this award. Previous recipients of the award are also not eligible.

The award is made on the advice of a judging committee, which consists of at least 3 people appointed by APEG Council. Candidates are assessed according to their project’s scientific merit and originality, the contribution of the EI to the study, the clarity of their presentation and their response to questions from the audience.

To allow a clear and open assessment of the EIs contribution to the study, at the time of submission of abstracts, applicants wishing to be considered for the EI Award must outline in detail their contribution to:

- The study design (including literature review)
- The ethics submission
- The data collection, with detail provided on which components of the study the EI has contributed to. eg subject recruitment, lab animal care, intervention development/validation/delivery, percentage of data entry and cleaning undertaken, creation of a new database, or new fields in an existing database.
- The statistical analysis
- The interpretation of findings
- Abstract tables and images: When an image or graph of another’s work is included, this should be acknowledged in the abstract submission and presentation

The submission form (word document) is available HERE. This form should be countersigned by the applicant’s study supervisor and/ or Head of Department and submitted within 4 days of the close of abstract submission.

Weighting will be given to candidates where the presented work is part of their higher degree (including MMed, MD, PhD, other).

APEG Council reserves the right to make the final decision re the suitability of any applicant for this award.

*justification of the equivalent full time period may be requested at the time of submission of the abstract, to allow reviewers to determine whether an application is eligible for this category of presentation.

DEADLINE: THURSDAY 23 MAY 2019 5PM NSW TIME