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Rules and Conditions

1. What is Amedeo Challenge ?

 Amedeo Challenge is an initiative that awards prizes to physicians who publish medical textbooks for free and anonymous access on the Internet. The winner of the first Amedeo Challenge award was Tuberculosis 2007, published by Palomino, Leão, Ritacco, et al. on May 29th, 2007. The winner of the second 25,000 Euro Amedeo Challenge Award was Hepatology 2009, by Stefan Mauss, Thomas Berg, Jürgen Rockstroh, Christoph Sarrazin, Heiner Wedemeyer, et al. Many more topics will be funded in the future.

Amedeo Challenge is a non-profit making initiative. The money made available by the sponsors is entirely (100%) distributed among the editors and authors of the winning teams. The Amedeo Team (www.Amedeo.com) will charge no fee for the management of the Amedeo Challenge website and the associated administrative workload.


2. Why should I apply for the Amedeo Award ?

You should think about participating in one of the Amedeo Challenges

  • if you are a physician and an expert in your field and if you want to share your experience with a global public. (If you are too young, your boss might be an expert in his field and you might persuade him to participate.)

  • if you have reason to believe that other people will listen to you if you are in your forties of fifties.

  • if your are willing to update your textbook regularly.

Medical textbooks are joint efforts. You should therefore know enough experienced colleagues who can take on a chapter of your project and deal with it competently. This assumes that you know your way around the national or international scene. Usually, this requirement can only be fulfilled if you come from a university institute or one of the big teaching hospitals. For detailed information, please check the second chapter of www.freemedicalinformation.com/download36.htm


3. What will I get in return ?

If you win the award, much of your work will be decently awarded. In addition, your book will be announced via the following communication channels:

  • Free Medical Journals (>7,000 visitors per day)

  • www.FreeBooks4Doctors.com (>2,000 visitors per day)

  • Free Medical Information (>250,000 downloads in 25 months)

  • weekly Amedeo newsletters (>120,000 subscribers).

  • Amedeo Challenge

    If you don't win the first prize, you'll earn much less or no money. Nonetheless, your book will achieve global attention via Amedeo Challenge, FreeBooks4Doctors, Free Medical Information and Amedeo.


    4. Which conditions have to be met to participate in the Amedeo Challenge ?

    1. The textbook must have a minimum number of pages (generally > 400; with references being excluded from the page count). The word count per page must be greater than 450. Please check the example at www.HIVMedicine.com/textbook/download.htm.

    2. The structure of the textbook has to be that of a standard medical textbook (see www.HIVMedicine.com).

    3. The textbook must be published in English. However, we expressly invite teams from non-English speaking countries to participate in the Amedeo Challenge. In these cases, the authors must pay the greatest attention to produce a linguistically perfect English text. This involves the cooperation of a native speaker who usually is also a physician and a skilled writer.

    4. The textbook needs to be created de novo - the single chapters must not have been published elsewhere.

    5. Two thirds of the editors and two thirds of the authors must work in university or research institutions.

    6. Two thirds of the editors and two thirds of the authors must be clinicians.

    7. No single author must write more than 10% of the content.

    8. The authors must be the copyright holders of their articles and chapters and may not sell or share this copyright.

    5. How can I apply for the Amedeo Award ?

    Anyone in the Textbook Team (editors or authors) may submit the application for the entire team

    1) if he is a member of Amedeo, or

    2) if he has a recommendation from an Amedeo member.

    For the purpose of the current application, an Amedeo member is defined as someone who subscribed to www.Amedeo.com before January 2006 (>120.00 subscribers).

    Please find the link to the application form at the end of this page.

    6. What do we need to do to win the Award ?

    A. Deadline

    You need to meet the deadline. The deadline for Tuberculosis was 28 February 2007.

    B. Monthly Notifications

    Until the deadline, the Textbook Team needs to inform the Amedeo Team once every month whether it is still participating in the competition.

    C. Publication on the Internet

    To win the Amedeo Award, the Textbook Team needs to publish the PDF file of the textbook on the Internet for unrestricted and anonymous access.

    At the request of the sponsor, the editors will add an acknowledgement 1) at the bottom of the first inside page of the textbook and 2) on resulting websites, stating: "This textbook was made possible by an unrestricted educational grant provided by <Sponsor> (+ URL)."

    In addition, a copy of the PDF file will be deposited indefinitely at www.AmedeoChallenge.org to be displayed on the website at the convenience of the Amedeo Challenge Team.

    D. Copyright Agreement

    Following the example of HIV Medicine 2007, the editors and authors of the Textbook Team need to wave the copyright for all languages except three languages of their choice (see www.InfluenzaReport.com/ir/cr.html and the previous results of this policy: www.sarsreference.com/sarsref/lang.htm).


    7. The Winner

    Teams which comply with the conditions mentioned under #4 and #6 will have their textbook made freely available on www.AmedeoChallenge.com and announced over the communication channels mentioned above under #3.

    If more than one textbook is submitted before the deadline, there will be a vote to determine the winner. 7 days after the deadline, and for 10 days thereafter, all subscribers to Amedeo topics related to the subject of the textbook will be invited to participate in a poll to designate the winner. The winner of the Amedeo Challenge Award is the book with the highest number of points in this voting round. He receives a bonus of 30% of the prize money. The remaining 70% is divided among a maximum of three books with the highest number of points; the amount is distributed proportionally according to the number of points accumulated during the poll. For example: if the three most popular websites, as determined by a vote during the 3rd quarter of 2006 (see http://www.gl4d.com/med200609.php), were to share a prize of 10,000 Euro, the award money would be divided as follows:


    8. Payment of the Award

    The award money will be divided equally among the editors of a textbook and will be transferred within 90 days after the poll. The editors commit themselves to pay adequate royalties to the authors.


    9. Application Form

    Please find the application form at www.AmedeoChallenge.org/ac/apply.php.


     
     
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