Lyn Clearihan Award: history, winners, and next awards
Yousuke Takemura, Zorayda Leopando, Mora Claramita, Regina SIT, Soo Young Kim, Hari Kusnanto
History
Background
The Asia Pacific Family Medicine journal is the official scientific journal of Wonca Asia pacific. Launched in 2002, Asia Pacific Family Medicine Journal aims to provide a medium for the dissemination of high quality family medicine/general practice articles in Asia Pacific region. The journal has been an open access journal by the BioMedCentral or BMC by 2018.
https://apfmj.biomedcentral.com
Now the journal is an open access journal by Universitas Gadjah Mada Press from 2019.
https://journal.ugm.ac.id/apfmj/index
Foundation
In 2009, the Lyn Clearihan award was established. The award was named in honor of Professor Lyn Clearihan, one of the first co-editors-in-chief of APFMJ, who was fundamental in the founding and sustainability of the journal.
Aims
- To raise the standard of primary care research in the Asia Pacific region
- To encourage more researchers to submit manuscripts to the Asia Pacific Family Medicine journal
Winners
Five awards have been given to:
2009: First Lyn Clearihan Award: given in Hong Kong
Carmel M Martin, Chris Peterson, Rowena Robinson and Joachim P Sturmberg.
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2009 8:1, Published on: 23 January 2009
2011: Second Lyn Clearihan Award, given in Cebu Philippines:
Tony MO Bakare and Peter Schattner.
“The usefulness of a clinical 'scorecard' in managing patients with sore throat in general practice”
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2010 9:9, Published on: 29 July 2010
2012: Third Lyn Clearihan Award, given in Jeju, Korea
Mora Claramita, Adi H Sutomo, Mark A Graber and Albert JJ Scherpbier
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2011 10:4, Published on: 25 April 2011
2014: Fourth Lyn Clearihan Award - given in Kuching, Sarawak Malaysia
Ikuko Aoyama, Shinichi Koyama and Haruo Hibino.
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2012 11:7. Published on: 11 September 2012
2015 Fifth Lyn Clearihan Award: awarded in Taipei, Taiwan
Grace Marie V Ku and Guy Kegels.
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2014 13:14, Published on: 16 December 2014
2017 Sixth Lyn Clearihan Award - given in Pattaya
Michiko Goto, Shoji Yokoya, Yousuke Takemura, Alberto Alexander Gayle and Tsukasa Tsuda
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2015 14:1 Published on: December 2015
2018 Seventh Lyn Clearihan Award - awarded in Kyoto
Mora Claramita, Fitriana Murriya Ekawati,Aghnaa Gayatri,Wahyudi Istiono,Adi Heru Sutomo,Hari Kusnanto, and Mark Alan Graber.
Asia Pacific Family Medicine 2018 17: 4. Published in: May 2018
Next Awards
Content of the award
- The award acts as a certificate of recognition for excellent original research(es) published by author(s) in Asia Pacific Family Medicine journal
- The name of the winner and the title of the paper will be featured in the website of the APFMJ until a new winner is announced.
- Monetary prize of 1000 USD will be given to each of the winners
- Award will be presented at the Wonca Asia Pacific Regional Conference.
- The award is given only in the year in which Wonca Asia Pacific Regional Conference is held. (biannually at the present)
Mechanism and criteria of selection
- The co-editors in chief shall review the list of articles submitted to APFMJ during the last 2 years and consider the papers which comply with the following screening criteria
- Original research paper
- Has family physicians or trainees in family medicine from any of the countries within member organizations in Asia Pacific as authors
- Has not received the Lyn Clearihan Award for the last 6 years (three times of the previous award)
- Three evaluators from the northern, south eastern, and Australia/New Zealand areas evaluate all articles submitted to the journal for two years.
- The criteria for evaluation are
- Importance of the topic to the region
- Importance of the topic to family medicine/general practice
- A paper with clearly stated aim that is addressed rigorously in the article
- Research methods are appropriate to the aim and are applied well