Arya Bhawna, Chopra Parul R, Goel Manisha, Sharma Anuj, Krishna Anurag, Nundy Samiran
NDTV Convergence, 207 Okhla Phase III, New Delhi 110031, India.
Natl Med J India. 2010 Nov-Dec;23(6):354-6.
BACKGROUND; The announcement of the annual Padma awards in January always generates a great deal of interest as well as controversy and, some believe that many good candidates are excluded and many less deserving ones included. We analysed the recipients in the field of medicine to determine whether or not a pattern emerged regarding who were bestowed these honours. We were not able to objectively evaluate whether or not the honours were 'deserved'.
We obtained and then analysed the list of awardees from newspapers and the official website of the Ministry of Home Affairs. Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 1166 awards were announced, of which 157 (13.4%) were in the field of medicine. We excluded foreigners and those from 'alternative' fields (20), and evaluated the remaining 137 in detail.
Sixty-two (45.3%) recipients were from Delhi, 18 (13.1%) from Maharashtra and 17 (12.4%) from Tamil Nadu. Of the 137 awardees, 31 (22.6%) were cardiologists or cardiac surgeons. Many large states of the country, such as West Bengal, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab and Haryana, did not have a single awardee.
The over-representation of Delhi and cardiology in the Padma awards for medicine suggests that their distribution is not entirely fair.
背景；每年1月宣布的帕德玛奖总会引发极大关注以及争议，一些人认为许多优秀候选人被排除在外，而许多不太值得的人却被列入其中。我们分析了医学领域的获奖者，以确定在授予这些荣誉的人选方面是否出现了某种模式。我们无法客观评估这些荣誉是否“实至名归”。
我们从报纸和内政部官方网站获取并分析了获奖者名单。2000年至2010年期间，共宣布了1166个奖项，其中157个（13.4%）是医学领域的奖项。我们排除了外国人以及来自“另类”领域的人（20个），并对其余137人进行了详细评估。
62名（45.3%）获奖者来自德里，18名（13.1%）来自马哈拉施特拉邦，17名（12.4%）来自泰米尔纳德邦。在137名获奖者中，31名（22.6%）是心脏病专家或心脏外科医生。该国许多大邦，如西孟加拉邦、古吉拉特邦、拉贾斯坦邦、中央邦、旁遮普邦和哈里亚纳邦，没有一名获奖者。
帕德玛医学奖中德里和心脏病学领域的获奖者比例过高，表明其奖项分配并不完全公平。
