VISION

Our vision is to support and promote young minds for innovative thought process and to stimulate research in our fraternity.

Scholarship guidelines

The research scholarship award proposed by Dr.Shanker Iyer under the aegis of Indian Prosthodontic Society (IPS) , will benefit the postgraduates in the field of prosthodontics graduating in India. He donated Rs.11,00000.00 (Rupees eleven lakhs only) as a corpus fund to the Indian Prosthodontic Society and the per annum interest on this amount will be awarded to two prosthodontic post graduate students every year. Dr.Shankar Iyer instigated this award to honor his post graduate guide, late Dr.Aruna Mehta, a passionate and dedicated academician in the field of prosthodontics. The corpus fund and the interest on that should be used only towards IPS research scholarship Dr.Aruna Mehta award.

The Jury

The jury would include the following 10 members of the Indian Prosthodontic Society

1. The President (1 year)
2. The Secretary (3 years)
3. Two Permanent EC Members
4. Dr. Shankar Iyer
5. The 2nd Vice President (1 year)
6. The Editor in Chief (3 years)
7. Three (3) EC members for a term of 2 years and will be appointed by the Head office
The Treasurer, IPS, would be responsible for the maintenance, accounting of the corpus fund, and dispersal of scholarship amount every year.

Scholarship guidelines

1. The research scholarships will be awarded to two Postgraduate students
   • 1^st prize will be awarded Rs.30,000.00 (Rupees thirty thousand only)
   • 2^nd prize will be awarded Rs.20,000.00 (Rupees twenty thousand only)
2. The awardees can spend a week with Dr. Shankar Iyer in his practice at NJ as preceptors to receive 40 hours of CE credits ($1500 value). The awardees should pay for their travel, accommodation and other expenses
3. This awarded scholarship has to be purely used for research purpose only
4. The applicant should be an IPS student member
5. The applicant if not awarded on the first attempt, can apply again in his/her tenure of post-graduation. However, the applicant cannot apply more than twice for this award
6. The applicant will be the only author and he will be considered for the award. No additional authors or guides should be mentioned in the application.
7. The filled in application along with other documents should be sent online @ [email protected]
8. The received proposals will be screened by juries and only ten (10) will be short listed.
9. The 10 selected applicants will present their research project at the National prosthodontic PG convention’s preconference course (PCC) day every year in front of the juries.
10. The applicant to strictly adhere to 8 minute Powerpoint/Keynote presentation.
11. Only two best research will be declared as winners on the criteria’s mentioned below
    • Study design
    • Methodology
    • Relevance with recent trends in prosthodontics
    • Innovation and clinical significance
    • Presentation of submitted data
12. The results will be declared at the valedictory function of that PG convention
13. The award should be received only by the awardee at the valedictory function. If the winner is not present at the time of announcement of the award during the valedictory function, he/she loses the award. It shall remain un-awarded for that year
14. The award cannot be claimed by an authorized person or substitute
15. The award cannot be transferred to the delegate in next position in absence of the winner at the valedictory function
16. No parallel 1st and 2nd award or additional awards can be instituted in the IPS-PG convention for the best research project
17. All decisions by the juries are final and any attempts by applicants to persuade the committee during the process will result in immediate disqualification
18. The 2 recipients of the research scholarship (awardee) should submit the progress of research project every 4 months to the Editor in Chief.
19. The study should be completed before the completion of the applicants PG program. The final report of the completed study with all supporting documents should be submitted to the Editor in Chief before completion of the applicant’s final year PG exam.
20. It is mandatory for the awarded applicant to publish their research in any indexed journal within 2 years of the completion of the research project. The author should acknowledge in their article by mentioning that the “publication is the outcome of IPS Research Scholarship Dr. Aruna Mehta award”
21. The guidelines could be subjected to revision in future, if needed

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