We are pleased to announce the Fourth International Elite Gynecologic Surgery Competition (IEGSC) (2024 Masters of Gynecologic Surgery) jointly held by AME Publishing Company and the West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University, after the great success of the previous three competitions respectfully in 2019, 2020 and 2022 (Figure 1-4). And we cordially invite you to participate in the 2024 competition and submit your videos before April 10, 2024. The competition results and the surgical video/articles of the previous competitions are available on the journal website at Masters of Gynecologic Surgery.
All gynecologists are eligible to participate in this competition, and the competition includes all of the operations in the field of gynecology. 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 Gynecology and Pelvic Medicine (GPM). The winners of the competition who distinguish their surgical videos from a bunch of other entries will have the opportunity of publishing their surgical video articles in GPM. All the winners will be invited to attend the award ceremony in Sichuan tentatively in July 2024. Additionally, the first-prize winners will be sponsored for a one-week study tour of the West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University.
We eagerly await your submission of the videos!
Figure 1. Awards ceremony of the First IEGSC held in December 2019
Figure 2. Awards ceremony of the Second IEGSC held in December 2020
Figure 3. Awards ceremony of the Third IEGSC held in June 2023
Figure 4. The judge panel of the Third IEGSC
1. Competition Schedule
Stage 1. Video Collection: March 13, 2024 - April 10, 2024 (Deadline)
Stage 2. Video Review: April 10, 2024 – May 10, 2024
Stage 3. Competition Results: May 12, 2024 (Email notification)
Stage 4. Article Writing: May 12, 2024 – June 30, 2024
Stage 5. Award Ceremony: July 2024 (Tentative)
2. Participants
All gynecologists are eligible to participate in this competition.
3. Enrollment
Participants should first fill in the Participant Information Form (attachment 1) and then email it to the GPM editorial office. The subject of the email should be, “2024 Masters of Gynecologic Surgery-Participant’s Full Name”. After receiving a receipt of the confirmation from the editorial office, please submit the videos and accompanying materials (attachment 2. Video Information Form) via www.wetransfer.com to:
- Recipient: Anne Lu, gpm@amegroups.com.
- Attachments: Please download the attachments at the bottom of this page.
- Deadline for submission: April 10, 2024.
(1) Thematic range: operations in the field of gynecology.
All videos must be original works and neither published nor submitted to other surgical video contests.
(2) Video Requirements：
- Video Length: within 15 mins. Chinese characters or any information relative to the participants are not allowed in the video. English narration would be recommended.
- 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.
- Screen Ratio: 4:3 or 16:9.
- Resolution: no less than 960×720 (no less than 1280×720 in widescreen format)
- 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.
- 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://gpm.amegroups.org/article/view/9356/html
(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:
- Title for the video.
- Author(s): limited to 6 authors, including full name, education level, and affiliation.
- Corresponding author: full name, email, and phone number.
- Abstract: summary of the video, limited to 350 words.
- Video description: detailed descriptions of the surgical operation procedures in a step-by-step format.
- Comments：comments and discussions on the operative techniques, possible pitfalls and the comparison of the described procedure with other methods are encouraged.
- Conflict of interests: anything that needs to be disclosed.
- Corresponding author of the video should sign the “Copyright Transfer Agreement” in the attachment 2.
5. Judging Mode
(1) Judge Panel: editorial board members from GPM
Name | Affiliation |
Stergios Boussios | Medway NHS Foundation Trust, UK |
Antonio Braga | Rio de Janeiro Federal University, Brazil |
Vito Andrea Capozzi | University of Parma, Italy |
Jose Carugno | University of Miami, USA |
Olivia H. Chang | University of California Irvine, USA |
Jeremy Chien | University of California Davis, USA |
Michael H. Dahan | McGill Reproductive Center, McGill University, Canada |
Rudy Leon De Wilde | University Medicine Oldenburg, Germany |
Attilio Di Spiezio Sardo | University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy |
Teresa P. Díaz-Montes | The Weinberg Center for Women’s Health & Medicine at Mercy, USA |
Peixin Dong | Hokkaido University, Japan |
Panagiotis Drakopoulos | Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium |
Louis Dubeau | University Southern California, USA |
Alessandro Favilli | University of Verona, Italy |
Federico Ferrari | ASST Spedali Civili, Italy |
Simone Ferrero | Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Italy |
Michael Friedrich | Helios Hospital Krefeld, Germany |
Pierluigi Giampaolino | “Federico II” University Medical School, Italy |
Walter H. Gotlieb | McGill University, Canada |
Thomas W. Grunt | Medical University of Vienna, Austria |
Prachi Gupta | Medical College of Wisconsin, USA. |
Neville F. Hacker | The University of New South Wales, Australia |
Maged Henary | Georgia State University, Atlanta, USA |
Ludwig Kiesel | University Hospital of Münster, Germany |
Gokhan S. Kilic | The University of Texas Medical Branch, USA |
Ervin Kocjancic | University of Illinois at Chicago, USA |
Liron Kogan | The Hebrew University, Israel |
Philippe R. Koninckx | Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium |
Antonio Simone Lagana | University of Palermo, Italy |
Fabrice Lécuru | Georges Pompidou European Hospital, France |
Yoo-Young Lee | Samsung Medical Center, South Korea |
Ambrogio P. Londero | University of Genoa, Italy |
Hooman Soleymani Majd | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK |
Liliana Mereu | Santa Chiara Hospital, Italy |
Liselotte Mettler | University Hospitals Schleswig-Holstein, Germany |
David G. Mutch | Washington University School of Medicine, USA |
Faustino R. Pérez-López | University of Zaragoza Faculty of Medicine, Spain |
Anna Myriam Perrone | University of Bologna, Italy |
Alexander Popov | Moscow Regional Scientific Research Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Russian |
Maurice A. Recanati | Harper Hospital, Detroit, USA |
Julio Cesar Rosa-e-Silva | São Paulo University, Brazil |
Ahmad Sayasneh | King’s College London, UK |
Masayuki Sekine | Niigata University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Japan |
Renato Seracchioli | Bologna University, Italy |
Michael Stark | The New European Surgical Academy, Germany |
Omer Lutfi Tapisiz | Guven Hospital, Turkey |
Andrea Tinelli | Veris delli Ponti Hospital, Italy |
Péter Török | University of Debrecen, Hungary |
Diama Bhadra Vale | State University of Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil |
Koen van de Vijver | Ghent University Hospital and Cancer Research Institute Ghent (CRIG), Belgium |
(2) Judging Criteria：
Videos will be judged based on how effective the videos are in promoting gynecologic surgery techniques by the editorial board member from GPM 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)
6. Awards
There will be a total of ten winners: two first-prize winners, three second-prize winners, and five third-prize winners.
(1) The first-prize winners will be invited to attend the West China Gynecology Forum and participate in academic communication. Besides, they will be sponsored for a one-week study tour of the West China Second University Hospital. The round-trip travel (economy-class air ticket or second-class seat of the high-speed train), food and accommodation will be sponsored by the organizers.
(2) All the winners will be awarded the certificate “2024 Masters of Gynecologic Surgery”.
(3) All the winners will be sponsored by the organizers to attend the award ceremony which will be held tentatively in July 2024. The sponsor will cover the round-trip travel (economy-class air ticket or second-class seat of the high-speed train), food and accommodation.
(4) All the winning videos will stand a chance to be published in Gynecology and Pelvic Medicine (GPM, http://gpm.amegroups.org). See the 2019, 2020, and 2022 collections below:
- Award-Winning Videos from the First International Elite Gynecologic Surgery Competition (2019 Masters of Gynecologic Surgery)
- Award-Winning Videos from the Second International Elite Gynecologic Surgery Competition (2020 Masters of Gynecologic Surgery)
- Award-Winning Videos from the Third International Elite Gynecologic Surgery Competition (2022 Masters of Gynecologic Surgery)
7. 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.
8. Contact us
For any inquiry, please contact us at gpm@amegroups.com.
9. Attachments