Inclusion Criteria
In order to be eligible to enter, candidates must be:
- An individual ASME member and one of the below:
- A medical educator still in training, such as a clinical teaching fellow, a doctor or other healthcare professional with a formal educational role, or a trainee who teaches medical students.
- A health professions educator who does not hold a substantive post.
- A basic scientist who teaches health professions students but does not hold a substantive post.
This list is not exhaustive. If you are unsure about eligibility please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Deadline for applications: noon on Friday 25th March 2022
Application Process
Deadline for applications now passed : 25th March 2022
Applicants are invited to summarise their education work under four headings. There is a word limit of 400 words for the completed application - this is in total across all four headings.
- Describe the teaching or other educational activity for which you would like to be considered for this award. Be specific about your own involvement from conception to delivery. Please use the shortlist scoring criteria to guide your answer.
- Explain why this activity is particularly relevant to trainees or your clinical area and its relevance to the wider educational community.
- Summarise any feedback you have gained from learners, peers or supervisors regarding this educational practice, and how this has influenced your progression in medical education.
- Summarise the educational rationale for this project and how you used current evidence to develop your idea.
If you wish to submit any supporting information with your application, please email it to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Shortlsting
Eligible applications will be assessed by the TASME Prizes and Awards panel 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 above 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 25th April 2022 and will need to register to attend ASME’s ASM in July to proceed to the finals.
Final Judging
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 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.
Prize
- Registration fee for the ASM 2022 for 1 person will be refunded to the winner after the conference has ended
- Certificate (issued after the conference)
- Name engraved on the TIE Prize Shield (after the conference)
- PowerPoints of the shortlisted candidates will be uploaded to the TASME website after the ASM
Timeline
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- 25th March 2022 - deadline for applications
- 25th April 2022 - shortlisted applicants will be informed
- 6th-8th July 2022 (ASME ASM, Aberdeen) - Presentations and prize-giving during TASME TIE session (exact date and time tbc)
Winners
2021
Christopher Smith, North West School of Intensive Care Medicine, for the abstract: The creation and evaluation of an innovative assessment strategy for a new curriculum in Intensive Care Medicine
2020
Hao Meng Yip for their abstract: Two novel simulation-based teaching programmes for final year medical students: “Hour On-Call” and “Bleep Roulette”
2019
Cleone Pardoe, South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust for her abstract: Studybuddy’; an educational board game to facilitate undergraduate students’ learning and revision of dermatology
2018
Thomas Judd for his abstract: Virti education platform. Fully immersive interactive 360 degree videos on your smartphone
2017
Doug McKechnie for the abstract The “S” in OSCE: How we standardise our OSCE examiners