SAOA Grants and Awards applications are open! 

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SAOA Grants and Awards 2023 applications are open! 

Deadline for all applications: 30 June 2023
PRESIDENTS’ ESSAY AWARD
An essay, in English, together with any illustrations must reach the Secretariat of the SAOA no later than 30 June 2023 at info@saoa.org.za.
A member may only win the award once.
LITERARY AWARD
A sum of R10 000 will be awarded by the SAOA to the best publication in an approved local or International journal of the preceding year.
An applicant may submit more than one publication.
RESEARCH GRANTS
3 x Research Grants to the value of R25 000 each are available for 2023.
Members may apply by means of a letter to the SAOA office, info@saoa.org.za by 30 June 2023.
The following is required:
  • Aim of study;
  • Proposed methodology;
  • Evidence of DRC and ethics approval from the respective institution;
  • Budget.
GT DU TOIT REGISTRARS PRIZE
The GT du Toit registrar prize will be awarded to the best registrar paper presented at the SAOA Annual Congress/ Registrars Congress.
Registrars who wish to apply must be an Associate member in good standing of the SAOA.
THE KS NAIDOO AWARD
  1. This is a sum of TEN THOUSAND RAND (R10 000) and a Certificate signed by the President of the SAOA and the Editor-in-Chief of the SAOJ.
  2. Awarded for the best article published in the SAOJ in the year preceding the SAOA Congress; and including the Congress edition of the SAOJ
  3. To be adjudicated by the Editorial Board of the SAOJ.
  4. The award is announced at the Annual Congress in recognition of Professor KS Naidoo as a mentor, teacher and leader in Orthopaedic Surgery in South Africa.
THE PROFESSOR S. GOVENDER FREE PAPER AWARD
Professor Shunmugam (Teddy) Govender was a renowned spinal surgeons and is remembered by many in the orthopaedic filed as a dedicated scientists who believed in research, teaching and training. In honouring his legacy, his family have approached the SAOA to dedicate an award to a deserving candidate.
The SAOA will award this prize of R20 000.00 annually to the best spine or educational free paper submitted at the SAOA congress annually for a period of ten years from 2023.
The first award will be in 2023.

 

Please contact Leana Fourie at info@saoa.org.za or 051 – 430 3280 for all grant and award application queries.