Tamil Nadu Medical Council invites nominations for Medical Excellence Awards 2022, Details

Written by Barsha Misra Published On 2022-05-01T09:30:00+05:30 | Updated On 1 May 2022 9:30 AM IST

Tamil Nadu Medical Council invites nominations for Medical Excellence Awards 2022, Details

Chennai: Announcing the "Medical Council Awards-2022 for Medical Excellence", the State Medical Council of Tamil Nadu has recently invited nominations in this regard from eminent eligible doctors under various categories.

Eligible doctors, under the categories for Medical Teacher Awards, Specialist's Awards and Service Award can send the nominations to the Council within 5 PM on 25.05.2022.

"The meritorious doctors among the nominations will be selected for the "Medical Council Awards-2022 for Medical Excellence" as per the criteria/ scoring followed by the Selection Committee of the Tamil Nadu Medical Council. The Awards will be given in an "Awards Function" to be held in Chennai by the Tamil Nadu Medical Council and the date will be announced later," TNMC mentioned in this announcement.

While inviting nominations from doctors, the Council has also provided other details in this regard including General Eligibility, Categories of Awards, Method of Selection, Criteria that will add to the credit of the applicant, among others. The details of the Medical Council Awards-2022 for Medical Excellence are as follows:

General Eligibility:

The applicant must have registered in Tamil Nadu Medical Council.

The applicant must have unblemished Moral, Ethical and Professional Conducts and no pending criminal cases against them.

Categories of Awards:

Category	Details of Award	Number of awards
Category I	Medical Teacher Awards	3
Category II	Specialist's Awards	6
Category III	Service Award	1

Method of selection:

Members of Selection Committee of the Tamilnadu Medical Council will evaluate each of the eligible applications individually under various parameters defined. The scores of all the members will be consolidated and listed. The best candidate in each category will be given the Award. The applicant should apply only in the prescribed format. The applicant may list their credentials in the application and enclose relevant supportive documents.

Criteria adding points to Applicants:

The following criteria may add to the credit of the applicant.

1. The applicant must have a minimum of 15 years experience in that category. Additional experience will have advantage.

2. The overall good opinion on the ethical, moral, professional stature of the individual is a must

3. Additional qualification in the form of degree, diploma, Superspeciality, doctorate, other qualifications may add up to the credit.

4. National, International, State District Awards depending on the Institution awarding it will add up to the points:

5. Authoring or co-authoring a topic or chapter in Medical Text books will be very valuable points.

6. Publication of Scientific Papers in indexed Journals will be given merit. 7. Presenting Papers. Chairing Scientific Sessions in International, National, State Conferences can be specified.

8. Applicant may specifically state about the hours of Students Classes/ Lectures/ CME/ in Local Academic Forums - Medical Colleges, IMA branches/ Hospitals etc.

9. Details of Active Social work and in various medical projects will add points.

10. Services, if any, in Hills and Tribal areas with the period and the details of the service will add credit.

11. Membership in Indian Medical Association, Tamil Nadu Government Doctors Association, Speciality Associations (as in API, ASI, FOGSI, IAP, IOP, ISA, etc) will get some weightage.

12. Membership in NGO/ Red Cross/ Rotary/ Lions Club will give some leverage.

13. Other credentials, the applicant can specifically present with supportive documents.

14. The applicant should enclose Self-attested Photostat copies of supportive documents like – Certificates, Awards, News papers, Journals, articles, brochures, invitations, magazines, textbook chapters, Other supportive documents etc. Originals should be produced when sought by the council.

Contact Details:

For Further Clarifications the Council has given the contact details of following persons-

Dr. N.R.T.R. Thiagarajan Chairman, Awards Committee Tamil Nadu Medical Council, Chennai-106. Mobile No. 98944 47717
Dr. M.K. Ponnuraj Member, Awards Committee Tamil Nadu Medical Council, Chennai-106. Mobile No. 94432 33124
Dr. S. Dhalapathy Member, Awards Committee Tamil Nadu Medical Council, Chennai-106. Mobile No. 97907 19570

To view the TNMC announcement, click on the link below

https://medicaldialogues.in/pdf_upload/tnmc-award-175407.pdf

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Barsha Misra

Barsha completed her Master's in English from the University of Burdwan, West Bengal in 2018. Having a knack for Journalism she joined Medical Dialogues back in 2020. She mainly covers news about medico legal cases, NMC/DCI updates, medical education issues including the latest updates about medical and dental colleges in India. She can be contacted at editorial@medicaldialogues.in.