Who is Amedeo? What are the driving forces behind the project? What is Free Medical Information? How can free medical textbooks such as HIV Medicine generate money? And what the hell is Amedeo Challenge, creating awards, motivating physicians to publish, calling for donations? Attilio Baghino has been the official biographer of the Amedeo project since 1999 and answers all these questions and many more: How Amedeo was born and where it will eventually take us. We are in the middle of a hurricane, which is approaching medical publishing territory. The Amedeo Challenge describes some of the players and forces involved.

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The Amedeo Hepatitis Award

Cagliari, 18 June 2007 - The third Amedeo Textbook Award is for a clinical textbook on viral hepatitis. Deadline: March 31^th, 2008.

The 12,500 Euro prize was provided by Patricia Bourcillier and Bernd Sebastian Kamps.

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Amedeo Textbook Award #1: Tuberculosis

The winners of the 12,500 Euro Amedeo Tuberculosis Textbook Award are Juan Carlos Palomino, Sylvia Cardoso Leão, Viviana Ritacco, et al. Their textbook, Tuberculosis 2007 (687 pages, PDF, 8.3 MB), is now available for free download. more...

The Amedeo Tuberculosis Award was funded by Patricia Bourcillier and Bernd Sebastian Kamps.

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About the Amedeo Textbook Awards

Amedeo Challenge will collect more than 1,000,000 € and create 100 textbook awards The Amedeo Awards will be funded by donations and exclusive sponsorships. A total of 50,000 Euro has already been allocated for three textbooks on Viral Hepatitis - Deadline: 31 March 2008 Antibiotic Therapy - Deadline: 31 August 2007 Tuberculosis - Published in May 2007 by Juan Carlos Palomino, Sylvia Leão, Viviana Ritacco, et al.

Free Medical Books - by Carmen Rivera

We invite medical teams from all over the world to participate in one of the contests. The first three groups will win 80 %, 16 %, and 4 % of the corresponding award, respectively (see Rules and Conditions). In addition, all textbooks will achieve global attention as we will announce them via the following communication channels:

• Homepage of Free Medical Journals (>7,000 visitors/day)

• Homepage of FreeBooks4Doctors (>2,000 visitors/day)

• Citation in Free Medical Information (>250,000 downloads in 25 months)

• Recommendation in the weekly Amedeo Newsletters (>120,000 subscribers)

A detailed description of how physicians can proceed to write and publish their own textbooks has recently been published in Free Medical Information.

We challenge you to write and publish a free medical textbook (see details).

Bernd Sebastian Kamps

 

Topic	Award	Sponsor
Viral Hepatitis	12.500 €	Why does BSK sponsor this award ? What are the requirements ? Apply for this award.
Antibiotic Therapy	25.000 €	Why does Pfizer sponsor this award ? What are the requirements ? Apply for this award.

Recent Donations

Date	By	Euro	Textbook of
2007-07-16	José Rocha	50	Obesity
2007-07-04	Luciano Ditri	10	Cardiovascular Diseases
2007-04-14	Didier Vincent, Paris	25	Oncology
2006-07-05	Jeffri Lingo, Indonesia	10	Diabetes
2006-05-15	Sharon Campbell	11
2006-03-17	KIK-Kuratorium für Immunschwäche, Mechthild Vocks-Hauck, Berlin	500	Haematology
2006-03-17	Helmut Schöfer, Frankfurt	20	Travel Medicine