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2010 PHC Research Conference: Prizes and awards

 

PHC RIS Best Poster award

Posters displayed at the Conference were judged by a panel of experts with the best poster selected based on the following criteria:

  • Compliance with size guidelines
  • Visual impact
  • Content
  • Clarity of message
  • Bonus points for exceptional factors (3D effects, special materials, wow factor)

The best poster was announced at the end of the conference and the author was awarded a book voucher valued at $200.

WINNER: Jennifer Devine (Greater Southern Area Health Service) "User satisfaction and experience with a telemedicine service for diabetic foot disease in an Australian rural community"

Australian Association of Academic Primary Care (AAAPC) first time presenter award

The Australian Association of Academic Primary Care sponsored a prize for best paper delivered by a first-time presenter at the Conference. The person judged as preparing and delivering the 'Best Paper Presentation' received a certificate and a book voucher valued at $250. The award was announced at the closure of the conference.

WINNERJohn Widdup (University of New South Wales) "Universal Health Home Visiting: Evaluating Access and Equity"

AAAPC DISTINGUISHED PAPER

The AAAPC committee selected two distinguished papers from the submitted abstracts. The selected papers were presented during the AAAPC Plenary session and the presenters received a certificate.

WINNERDamin Si & Ross Bailie (Charles Darwin University) "Improving quality of preventative care for well adults in Indigenous community health centres"

WINNERJon Emery (University of Western Australia) "Testing an innovative tool to diagnose melanoma in primary care"

AJPH prize for best paper / symposium

The Australian Journal of Primary Health gave a Prize to the best research paper/symposium relevant to the interests of the Journal, presented at the Conference. The prize was awarded at the end of the conference. The prize consisted of a year's subscription to the Journal (print and online), with a congratulatory message on the Journal website with the early alert for the Conference issue of the Journal.

WINNER: Paul Burgess (Menzies School of Health Research) "The contribution of the Adult Health Check to preventive care in a remote Aboriginal primary care service"

Australian Journal of Primary Health

As a presenter at the Primary Health Care Research Conference you are invited to submit your work to the Australian Journal of Primary Health.

Editors in Chief of the Australian Journal of Primary Health, Associate Professors Rae Walker and Libby Kalucy invite you to submit an article to this journal, based on your conference presentation. We intend to publish a special issue with papers from the 2010 PHC Research Conference in the March 2011 issue of this journal.

Deadline for expression of interest in submitting your article is 18 June 2010. Please email expressions of interest with contact details including paper title, abstract and name of author and co-authors to fiona.thomas@flinders.edu.au

Deadline for submission of your article is 31 July 2010. Guidelines for submission are set out in the Instructions to Authors. Submission of articles is on-line.

The Australian Journal of Primary Health is a refereed, international journal that publishes articles on a range of issues influencing community health services and primary health care. The Journal focus is the integration of theory and practice in primary health utilising perspectives from a range of disciplines. The Journal publishes research articles, policy reports and analyses, literature reviews, reports of evidence-based practice, book reviews, and letters. The Journal has a readership throughout Australia and overseas who have an interest in primary health. It is indexed in Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index. The Australian Research Council, through the ERA exercise, awarded the Aust J Primary Health a 'B' ranking. By the next ERA cycle, the Journal will have an impact factor.  

The Australian Journal of Primary Health is published four times a year. Material is considered for publication on the understanding that it is original and unpublished work and has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should be of a publishable standard; they are subject to peer-review and the editors reserve the right not to publish any material. Authors are responsible for all statements made in the material.

Further information about the journal is available at www.publish.csiro.au/nid/261.htm
Note: Please do not just send in your presentation, but prepare an article of publishable standard. As examples of what is needed, see the seventeen papers from the 2009 GP & PHC Research Conference which is about to be published in the March 2010 issue of AJPH, available on-line at www.publish.csiro.au/nid/261/issue/5469.htm

Rae Walker & Libby Kalucy, Editors in Chief


Key dates

19 March 2010
Closing date for abstracts

 

16 April 2010
Delegate sponsorship closes

 

14 May 2010
Early bird registration closes

 

30 June-2 July 2010
PHC Research Conference

 

 
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