We cordially invite you to participate in the First International Lung Surgery Competition, which is jointly hosted by AME Publishing Company and Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital.
AME Publishing Company has successfully held a series of surgical video competitions since 2012 and has received positive responses and recognition from surgeons domestically and abroad. The contest not only provides a platform for competition and mutual learning, it also provides young surgeons with an opportunity to participate in a dialogue of views with international leading experts.
All lung surgeons are eligible to participate in this competition, and the competition includes all of the operations in the field of lung surgery. The contest will be held based on the submission of videos via the internet, and the review process will be performed online. The video expert judges will be editorial board members from the journal Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery (CCTS). The winners of the event will have priority access for publishing their surgical video articles in CCTS. The winners of the competition will be invited to attend the award ceremony that will be held at the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Conference in 2020, and will be rewarded with a pair of patented surgical forceps from Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital. The winners of the event will have an opportunity for a one-week study tour of the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital.
We eagerly await your submission of the videos!
Competition Schedule
Stage 1. Video Collection: Sept. 6, 2019 - Jan. 6, 2020 (Deadline)
Stage 2. Video Review: Jan. 7, 2020 - Feb. 29, 2020
Stage 3. Competition Results: Mar. 12, 2020 (Email notification)
Stage 4. Article Writing: Mar. 13, 2020 - Apr. 13, 2020
Stage 5. Award Ceremony: 2020
Participants
All lung surgeons are eligible to participate in this competition.
Enrollment
Participants should first fill in the attachments (at the bottom of the website page) and then send the attachments and the video to the CCTS editorial office by www.wetransfer.com. When sending the files by WeTransfer, please leave message as “2019 Masters of Lung Surgery-Participant’s Full Name.”
- Email: ccts@amegroups.com.
- Attachments: Please download the attachments at the bottom of the website page.
- Phone: 020-66355775, Lucine Gao.
- Deadline for submission: Jan. 6, 2020
Entry Requirements
1. Thematic range: operations in the field of lung surgery.
All videos must be original works and neither published nor submitted to other surgical video contests.
2. Video Requirements：
- (1) Video Length: within 15 mins. All characters in the videos should be in English. In order to ensure the justice of the reviewing process of the videos, there should be no author names and affiliation information in the videos.
- (2) Video Format: MP4、Flash video (.flv), MPEG, DVD video format, MOV, AVI, and WMV. H.264/mp4 for the video codec and AAC for the audio codec is recommended.
- (3) Resolution: no less than 960×720 (no less than 1280×720 in widescreen format)
- (4) The corresponding author must confirm in the Copyright Transfer Agreement that he/she has received a signed release form from each patient recorded on the submitted video. Ideally, patients should not be identifiable in these videos.
- (5) No background music should be inserted into the video. All materials submitted should be by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPPA) and be original unless appropriate permission is obtained.
Video Example：https://www.annalscts.com/article/view/783/902
3. Illustrating text (attachment 2)：
It is recommended that the video be accompanied by a descriptive text in English. The text includes the following information:
- (1) Title for the video.
- (2) Author(s): limited to 6 authors, including full name, education level, and affiliation.
- (3) Corresponding author: full name, email, and phone number.
- (4) Abstract: summary of the video, limited to 350 words.
- (5) Video description: detailed descriptions of the surgical operation procedures in a step-by-step format.
- (6) Comments：comments and discussions on the operative techniques, possible pitfalls and the comparison of the described procedure with other methods are encouraged.
- (7) Conflict of interests: anything that need to be disclosed.
- (8) Corresponding author of the video should sign the “Copyright Transfer Agreement” in the second attachment.
Judging Mode
1. Review Team: editorial board members from Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery
Editorial Board Member | Affiliation |
Gening Jiang | Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, Tongji University, China |
Douglas J. Mathisen | Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
Hon Chi Suen | Cardio-thoracic Surgery Centre, Hong Kong Sanatorium and Hospital, China |
Michael Lanuti | Division of Thoracic Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
Hasan Fevzi Batirel | Marmara University School of Medicine, Turkey; The Ministry of Health of Turkey |
Kathleen K. Berfield | University of Washington, USA |
Alessandro Brunelli | St. James's University Hospital, UK |
Stephen D. Cassivi | Mayo Clinic, USA |
Aaron M. Cheng | University of Washington, USA |
Jessica Donington | University of Chicago Medicine and Biologic Sciences, USA |
Henning A. Gaissert | Massachusetts General Hospital, USA |
Diego Gonzalez-Riva | Coruña University Hospital, Coruña, Spain |
Maninder Singh Kalkat | Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, UK |
Moishe Liberman | University of Montréal, Canada |
Gustavo A. Lyons | Buenos Aires British Hospital, Argentina |
John D. Mitchell | University of Colorado School of Medicine, USA |
Tetsuya Mitsudomi | Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Japan |
Laureano Molins | Hospital Clínic University Hospital, Barcelona University, Spain |
Meinoshin Okumura | Toneyama National Hospital Osaka, Japan |
Francesco Puma | University of Perugia School of Medicine, Italy |
Erino A. Rendina | University of Rome SAPIENZA, Italy |
Gaetano Rocco | Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, USA |
Alan D. L. Sihoe | The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; |
Miguel L. Tedde | University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil |
Ricardo M. Terra | Hospital das Clinicas, University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Brazil |
Akif Turna | İstanbul University, Cerrahpaşa School of Medicine, İstanbul, Turkey |
Federico Venuta | University of Rome SAPIENZA, Italy |
Biniam Kidane | University of Manitoba, Canada |
Emmanuel Martinod | Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Avicenne Hospital, SMBH Faculty of Medicine, Paris 13 University, COMUE Sorbonne Paris Cité, France |
Rafael Andrade | University of Minnesota, USA |
Vignesh Raman | Duke University Medical Center, USA |
Gregor J. Kocher | Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Switzerland |
Yasuhiro Tsutani | Hiroshima University, Japan |
Douglas Wood | University of Washington, USA |
Tiago N. Machuca | University of Florida College of Medicine, USA |
Sridhar Rathinam | Glenfield Hospital, UK |
Nirmal Veeramachaneni | University of Kansas Hospital, USA |
Daniel L. Miller | WellStar Health System/Mayo Clinic Care Network, USA |
Jules Lin | University of Michigan, USA |
Betty C. Tong | Duke University Medical Center, USA |
2. Judging Criteria：
Videos will be judged based on how effective the videos are in promoting lung surgery techniques by the editorial board member from CCTS following the 5 standards below (100 points total):
- Operative Difficulty（20 points）
- The standardization and the fluency of the operation（20 points）
- Originality（20 points）
- Quality of the video（20 points）
- Educational values of video demonstration （20 points）
Awards
The adjudicators will pick two first, three seconds and five third prize winners from the entries.
（1） Winners will be awarded the certificate “2019 Masters of Lung Surgery”.
（2） All the winning videos will stand a chance to be published in Current Challenges in Thoracic Surgery (CCTS, https://ccts.amegroups.org).
（3） Winners will be sponsored by the organizers to attend the award ceremony which will be held at Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital Conference in 2020. The sponsor will cover the round-trip travel (remarks: economy-class air ticket or second-class seat of the high-speed train) and 2 nights accommodation.
（4） Winners will be rewarded with a pair of patented surgical forceps from Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital.
（5） Winners have an opportunity for a one-week study tour of the Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital. All travel fees, including accommodation, transportation, and food shall be borne by the winners.
Term of Confidentiality
All information and materials collected for this contest will not be used for any non-academic purpose. We reserve all the rights for the final explanation of the competition and all the videos.
Contact us
For any inquiry, please contact us at ccts@amegroups.com.
Attachments
Attachment 1-Participant Information
Attachment 2-Video Information