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Allied Health students must be enrolled full-time or part-time in a baccalaureate or higher degree health professions education program in a school that is a member of the Association of Schools of Allied Health Professions. Both Single Discipline and Interdisciplinary awards are available. An Interdisciplinary project focuses on an approach in which students from two or more disciplines collaborate with the goal of fostering interprofessional interactions that improve the health of the individual patient or community and enhance the practice of each discipline. Examples include collaboration between students from nursing, allied health, and medicine or pharmacy and public health.

Students must submit their papers to the ASAHP Institutional Representative by February 7, 2005.

Four (4) copies of Single Discipline entries must be sent to ASAHP by March 4 . ASAHP forwards these papers to the Education Committee, where they undergo a preliminary review. ASAHP accepts more than one submission per institution, but only one paper from a given institution may be forwarded to the next round of competition by the ASAHP Education Committee. Interdisciplinary papers must be submitted directly to: Association of Academic Health Centers.

The Education Committee may forward up to 10 single discipline papers to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, where they undergo the next level of review. The Education Committee must complete its review by April 4 .

By April 27 , the 10 best papers from both the Single Discipline and Interdisciplinary category are forwarded by AACN to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. HHS makes final selections by May 17 .

The Secretary of HHS will present the awards to winners in Washington, D.C., in June.

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