Reg 22 Formal Project Prize

• 22.1 The Formal Project Prize shall be awarded to the Trainee or Fellow within 1 year of award of the Diploma of Fellowship who is judged to make the best contribution at the Formal Project Session held as part of the Annual Scientific Meeting (ASM). This Session will only be open to Trainees or Fellows to present material related to their Formal Project as defined in Professional Document TE11.
• 22.2 The Prize will take the form of a medal, and be accompanied by a certificate recognising the achievement.

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• 22.3 Eligibility for the Prize will be limited to current or past registered trainees in Anaesthesia who fulfil the criteria set out in Regulation 22.1.
• 22.4 The Chair of the Education and Training Committee (ETC) shall chair the Formal Project Prize Session and appoint three adjudicators for the Prize, one of whom may be the Chair of the ETC. The Adjudication Panel shall be chaired by the Chair of ETC or his/her nominee. When appointing the Adjudication Panel, conflicts of interest must be identified and managed according to ANZCA Policy.  

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• 22.5 If, in the opinion of the adjudicators, no presentation attains a sufficiently high standard, the Prize will not be awarded.
• 22.6 The ASM Scientific Convenor will select presentations for the Formal Project Session on the basis of the submitted abstracts. Presentations will take the form of a ten minute paper which must be based on the topic of the Trainee's Formal Project. Performance during five minutes of discussion will form part of the adjudication criteria.

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FORMAL PROJECT PRIZE WINNERS

• Inaugural Award
• 1995  Matthew Chan
  Hong Kong Mac of Isoflurane in the Post Partum Period
• 1996  Deborah Jane Wilson
  Western Australia Analgesia and Plasma Levels After Amethocaine Cream for Venepuncture in Children: Comparison with Emla Cream
• 1997  Ho Kwok Ming
  Victoria A Comparison of Common Iliac Vein Pressure and Superior Vena Cava Pressure in Mechanically Ventilated Patients
• 1998  Brian Thomas Spain
  Northern Territory Spinal Epidural Abscess - Case Report Associated with Obstetric Epidural Catheterisation and Review of Literature
• 1999  Sui-Cheung Yu
  Hong Kong Prolongation of Postoperative Analgesia After Elective Caesarean Section by Addition of Pethidine to Intrathecal Bupivacaine
• 2000  Michael Lambros
  New South Wales The In-vitro Effect of Sevoflurane on Gravid Human Myometrium
• 2001  Anna S K Lee
  Hong Kong Multi-regional ropicacaine infiltration during laparoscopic cholecystectomy – experience in Hong Kong
• 2002  Naresh Ramakrishnan
  New South Wales Intra-abdominal venous pressure accurately reflects central venous pressure in critically ill patients
• 2003  Kerryn Martin
  New Zealand A study to compare two non-anatomical models as tools to teach fibreoptic bronchoscopy
• 2004  Lisa Mohanlal
  Queensland The incidence and severity of aortic stenosis in patients undergoing hip fracture surgery: a pilot study
• 2005  Ian Duncan McKay
  New Zealand Pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic modelling of the hyponotic effect of sevoflurane using the spectral entropy of the electroencephalogram
• 2006  Gabriel Snyder
  Victoria Intrathecal pethidine does not decrease shivering during caesarean section when compared to intrathecal fentanyl
• 2007  Kylie King
  New South Wales 5U bolus oxytocin at caesarean section in women at risk of atony
• 2008  Remesh Kumar Balasingam
  Malaysia  Prophylactic ephedrine with propofol for 'rapid sequence induction' for laryngeal mask airway insertion
• 2009  Angela Palumbo
  Western Australia  Controversies in anaesthesia safety: Implications for the teaching and assessment of trainees
• 2010  Peter Carlin
  South Australia  Midwife Management of Epidural Analgesia in Second Stage Labour - a survey