Ruth Erwig Innovation Award

The Ruth Erwig Innovation Award is an innovation prize for medical and dental professionals. With this award, the DCS aims to honour individuals who have made a new contribution to surgical disciplines or surgery-related fields or who have communicated new findings from science and teaching. The aim is to strengthen the importance of application-oriented research and teaching in Germany. The award honours achievements in the following areas:

The development of new surgical techniques, improvements to instruments and surgical procedures, and technical aids
Development of innovative training concepts, particularly in the field of surgery
Outstanding master's theses in the field of medicine and dentistry

Conditions of participation

Application deadline: 1 May each year

The prize is intended to recocnise innovations in the field of

surgical procedures
technical aids
special teaching aids

The prize is divisible. The prize money is not earmarked for a specific purpose. The evaluation is based on a published work within the last three years. The submitted works are submitted to a panel of judges for review, who select the best works. The DCS prize committee then decides on the awarding of the prize. The Innovation Award is endowed with a prize sum of €5,000 and is presented at the IMC Award Ceremony.

Award guidelines

The Application deadline: 1 May each year.

The following documents must be submitted:

Publication
Summary in German
If there are several authors, written consent of all authors

Each author may only apply once during the application period. The decision of the advisory board based on the recommendation of the jury is final and cannot be appealed. The works must be submitted in electronic form under the heading "Ruth Erwig Innovation Award" to the following address:

Deutsche Chirurgiestiftung
Schorlemerstraße 26
48143 Münster
Tel: +49 (0)251/1345801
Fax: +49 (0)251/1345892
dcs@chirurgiestiftung.de
www.chirurgiestiftung.de

Receipt of the application will be confirmed within one week.

The winner must accept the prize in person during the "Fascination of Surgery" conference.

The work will be published on the DCS portal.

Award ceremonies

2024

Prize winner: Working group "Surgical Innovations, Technology and Teaching" of the Department of General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at the University Medical Centre Mainz.

Title of the work: “Real-time augmented reality annotation for surgical education during laparoscopic surgery: results from a single-center randomized controlled trial and future aspects”

As part of the 5th Sino-German Symposium from 14 to 15 October 2024, the Ruth Erwig Prize was awarded to the Aworking group "Surgical Innovations, Technology and Teaching" at the Clinic for General, Visceral and Transplant Surgery at Mainz University Medical Centre for their work “Real-time augmented reality annotation for surgical education during laparoscopic surgery: results from a single-center randomized controlled trial and future aspects”. The prize is endowed with €5,000.

2018

Prize winners (shared prize)