Early-Career Travel Awards Details
How to Apply
Applying is easy, since the award application is part of the abstract submission process. Submit your abstract and apply for an award at the same time before the abstract submission deadline (December 14, 2022) To be eligible, when submitting your abstract, be sure to:
- Renew your AAA membership for 2023 or join as a new member
- Fill out the appropriate responses when you get to the "Awards" page of the abstract submission site.
Submitting a Winning Entry
- Read and follow all eligibility requirements and guidelines below.
- Reference the abstract scoring rubric (new). See details below.
Eligibility Requirements
Applicants must:
- Be a junior faculty AAA member (within 10 years of highest degree) (Join now!)
- Pay 2023 dues in full by December 14, 2022
- Be the first author on the abstract
- Attend Anatomy Connected to present your research
Guidelines
- This travel award is competitive. Abstracts are pre-judged to determine award winners and at least 5 winners will be selected for the award of $500 and $500 travel reimbursement.
- Presenting authors may only designate one abstract for award consideration. If more than one abstract is put forward for the competition, only the first submission will be considered.
- Oral and poster presentations that are research focused (i.e., non-descriptive works) will be prioritized over descriptive works and given more consideration when selecting award winners. While the submission of descriptive works is encouraged, please recognize that the evaluation of scientific and educational research presentations relies heavily on the tenets of the scientific process as a guide to compare and judge the quality of presentations.
- Only applications with confirmed abstracts will be considered.
- Awards are non-transferable and no substitution of first author/presenter is allowed.
- Recipients will be notified about eight weeks after the abstract deadline.
- Travel Awards are distributed at the meeting after your poster or oral presentation. Cancellations or no-shows will not receive a travel award.
- All Travel Award recipients will receive 1 complimentary ticket to attend the Closing Awards Ceremony and additional tickets may be purchased online prior to the meeting.
- Authors are not permitted to submit an abstract on previously published work unless the abstract represents further progression of the published research. This applies to abstracts submitted but not presented at EB 2020 due to meeting cancellation.
New: Abstract Scoring Rubric
To establish consistency and rigor in the abstract review process, we have developed an abstract scoring rubric.
The scoring rubric was devised in order to ensure high scientific
quality and importance, incorporate a rigorous scientific review
process, and maintain consistency across reviewers.
The scoring rubric will be used to score 1) all educational abstracts
and 2) all abstracts (educational and scientific) submitted to
Student/Postdoc Registration and Competition Awards. It is expected that
all applicants will review the scoring rubric in advance of submitting their abstract. In summary, abstracts will be score in the following categories:
- Introduction & Objective
– (5 points) Was the research question/objective stated clearly? The
introduction should provide context to your reader, an introduction to
your topic and its importance, and your study objective, question, or
hypothesis, whichever is appropriate.
- Materials and Methods –
(5 points) Was the approach/method for answering the question stated
clearly and is it appropriate to the study? The materials and methods
section should include brief, clear statements of the appropriate
methods used to conduct the study. Keep this as straightforward as you
can. If the methods were unusual or novel describe in slightly more
detail.
- Results – (10
points) Were the results clearly stated and placed in their appropriate
context? A summary of the most important results must be included. Key
findings should be clear, concise, and explicit. Results should include
supporting data. Lack of results with supporting data will lead to your
abstract score being lowered for this section. Include appropriate
statistics to support claims of significance.
- Conclusion – (5
points) Did the conclusion clearly communicate the take-home message
from the study and did it relate to the study objective(s)?
- Significance/Implication –
(10 points) Did the author effectively communicate the significance of
the results? This section should also include the
importance/significance of the findings, and directions for future work
and next steps. This is your opportunity to describe the significance of
your findings to science and/or the translation of your findings to
progress in your field.
Travel Award Scoring Rubric
Below are the guidelines/tips and scoring rubric that the award judges will be following.
Early Career Travel Award