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The University of Central Florida College of Medicine presents a publishing competition
Defining Health in the Era of Value-Based Care
$18,000
IN PRIZES
Cureus, on behalf of the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, is pleased to introduce the Defining Health in the Era of Value-Based Care publishing competition.
Modern medicine is actively transitioning from “fighting disease” to promoting health. However, the medical community has yet to arrive at a universally accepted definition of “health.” Without such, the path to health preservation, protection and rejuvenation remains unclear.
Supporting the emergence of integrated medicine and less expensive, value-based systems, we invite review articles that define “health” in a manner that helps to develop a healthier society and provide actionable guidelines for practicing physicians and public health workers.
The winner of this competition will be selected by general acclaim of the medical community using Cureus SIQ™ crowdsourcing technology, and subject to the final approval of the committee selected by the College. To further encourage knowledge sharing across medical specialties, all articles published as part of this competition will be indexed in PubMed Central and distributed to large communities of relevant clinicians through the Cureus platform.
Peer Review Panel
To review all submitted articles prior to publication, we’ve assembled a world-class peer review panel led by Dr. John Ioannidis, Professor of Medicine and Health Research and Policy at Stanford University School of Medicine. Click on a reviewer name to learn more.
Article analysis and commentary performed by the peer review panel are strictly independent of the sponsor.
George D. Lundberg
M.D., Sc.D., Professor | PathologyEditor In Chief, Cancer Commons, los altos, USA | Editor at Large, Medscape from WebMD, New York, USA | Clinical Professor of Pathology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, USA
Victoria Maizes
M.D. | Integrative/Complementary MedicineCenter for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
Josephine Briggs
M.D. | Integrative/Complementary MedicineNational Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health, National Institute of Health (NIH)
David Shurtleff
Ph.D. | Integrative/Complementary MedicineNational Center for Complimentary and Integrative Health, National Institute of Health (NIH)
Linda Lee
M.D. | GastroenterologyIntegrative Medicine & Digestive Center, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Hilary McClafferty
M.D. | Integrative/Complementary MedicineCenter for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona
Stephen K. Klasko
M.D., Professor | Obstetrics and GynecologyThomas Jefferson University & Jefferson Health, Thomas Jefferson University
Ryan Abbott
M.D., Professor | Integrative/Complementary MedicineSchool of Law, University of Surrey | School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles
Daniel Monti
M.D. | Integrative/Complementary MedicineJefferson Health System, Thomas Jefferson University
Juan C. Cendán
M.D., Professor | Medical Education and SimulationMedical Education and Simulation, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, USA
Edward Ross
M.D. | Internal MedicineCollege of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
Sam Parthasarathy
Ph.D., Professor | MiscellaneousBurnett School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Orlando, USA
Sanford Newmark
M.D. | PediatricsPediatric Integrative Neurodevelopmental Program, University of California San Francisco
Competition Entries
The entry period is now closed. Competition entries appear below as they are published. Now is your chance to score and discuss these articles. Remember, prizes will be awarded to the three highest-scoring articles!
Requirements
Competition entry and article submission is completely free. All submitted work must be previously unpublished. All articles must be submitted via the template-driven, self-publishing Cureus platform, following the Cureus standard review article format.
Each article submission shall not exceed 30 references. Competition entry is limited to only the first 100 draft article submissions (maximum one article entry per author).
For additional information on publishing with Cureus, please refer to our Author Guide.
Awards
Winning Article Awards
Three prizes will be awarded to the published articles that receive the highest Cureus SIQ™ (Scholarly Impact Quotient™) scores.
- 1st Place: $10,000 USD
- 2nd Place: $5,000 USD
- 3rd Place: $3,000 USD
Subsequent to formal editorial and peer review, published articles undergo SIQ scoring - Cureus’ unique crowdsourced, secondary peer-review process. In addition to measuring engagement, SIQ allows the community-at-large to rate the quality of individual articles. Reviewers will assign scores from 1 to 10 on criteria including clarity and rationale, clinical importance, study design and methods, data analysis, novelty of conclusions and quality of presentation.
Aggregated community SIQ scores allow clinicians and researchers to quickly assess article quality in a manner similar to that of Amazon® and Yelp® community reviews.
Winning articles are subject to final approval by the selection committee appointed by the College. Eligible articles must receive a minimum of 5 scores. (A Cureus user can assign only one score per article.) As engagement and scoring are critical to winning, authors are highly encouraged to share their published articles via social media and email.
Referral Award
Not interested in submitting relevant research? Please help further medical discovery by referring this publishing program to relevant colleagues within the requisite scholarly interest. Be the first to refer this solicitation to the author of the winning article and you’ll receive $1,000 USD for your efforts.
Key Dates
- Wednesday, October 12, 2016 – Competition begins; articles may now be submitted
- Wednesday, January 25, 2017 – Article submission deadline @ 5:00 pm PT (15 weeks)
- Wednesday, March 8, 2017 – Peer and editorial review of all eligible articles concludes @ 5:00 pm PT
- Wednesday, April 5, 2017 – Competition crowdsourced scoring (SIQ) complete @ 5:00 pm PT
- Wednesday, April 19, 2017 – Winning articles announced
