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Alpha Omega Alpha Helen H. Glaser Student Essay Award Description: To encourage medical students to address nontechnical topics in medicine, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society instituted this competition to recognize and reward excellent and thoughtful student compositions. The topic of the essay may be any nontechnical subject related to medicine, including ethics, history, education, philosophy and policy. The manuscript should not exceed 15 double-spaced pages of 12-point type with minimum one inch margins. Unique reference, numbered consecutively, are limited to 20. The paper must not have been offered to or published in any other journal and must be submitted to The Pharos, the official publication of AOA, which has the right of first refusal.
Alpha Omega Alpha Pharos Poetry Competition Description: To encourage medical students to write poetry on medical subjects, The Pharos has instituted this competition to recognize and reward excellent and thoughtful student compostitions. Authors must be enrolled at medical schools with active AOA chapters, but need not be members of AOA. Application forms are available in the Student Affairs Office.
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia - Description: Contestants must currently be students in a medical or osteopathic school in eastern Pennsylvania or New Jersey. Those being awarded the M.D. or D.O. degree in May or June 2005 are eligible. Students with advanced degrees on history, other humanities, sociology, or anthropology will be judged in a separate pool.
Description: This annual contest honors
the pre-eminent cardiovascular surgeon, pioneering medical scientist,
gifted medical educator, prolific author and scholar, and passionate
advocate of optimal healthcare throughout the world. Dr. Michael
E. DeBakey has long advocated a role for the humanities in medical
education and in the development of a full, enriching intellectual
life. Entries must be:
New York
Academy of Medicine - Description: The New York Academy of Medicine invites entries for the first annual New York Academy of Medicine Student Essay Prize, awarded to the best unpublished essay by a graduate student in a medical, public health, or nursing program in the United States. Essays should address a topic in the history of public health or medicine as they relate to urban health issues; they may consider social or environmental factors in the health of urban populations, institutional histories, or specific diseases. The winner will receive $500, and the winning essay will receive expedited review for possible publication in the Journal of Urban Health. Honorable Mention prizes may also be awarded at the discretion of the Prize Committee. The contest is open to students in accredited professional degree programs in medicine, nursing and public health. The writer must have been a student at the time the essay was written. Essays should be approximately two to three thousand (2,000 - 3,000) words long, and should follow the guidelines in the Journal's instructions for authors at http://www3.oup.co.uk/jurban/instauth. Essays will be evaluated on the quality and originality of the research, the significance of the topic, and appropriateness for publication in the Journal of Urban Health. The postmark deadline is March 30, 2007. Please visit our website at http://www.nyam.org/grants/studentessay.shtml, or write to historyessay@nyam.org for more information. University of Cincinnati Medical Center - Description: The UC Department of Psychiatry sponsors this essay contest for medical students. Entries may include topical essays, case reports, review articles or original research conducted in medical school for which the student is the first author. Entries will be judged on the basis of creativity, knowledge of psychiatry, style and contribution to understanding important problems in any of the biological, psychological or social dimensions of psychiatry.
University of South Florida College of Medicine Literary Journal "The Legible Script" Creative Writing Contest Description: The journal
was begun in 2001 as "Medlennium" by the medical students
of the University of South Florida College of Medicine, and has
grown by leaps and bounds in the last few years.
William Osler Medal Essay Contest Description: Awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on a medico-historical topic written by a medical student. Essays may pertain to the historical development of a contemporary medical problem, or to a topic within the health sciences related to a discrete period in the past and should demonstrate either original research or an unusual appreciation and understanding of the problems discussed. The essay must be entirely the work of one contestant and of a maximum length of ten thousand words, including end notes.
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