Welcome to our collection of essay contests and places you can get your work published. Most of these are annual contests that are renewed by the parent society each year. The most current contests are at the top of the list. At the bottom of the page you will find places interested in publishing medical student writing that are not contests.
Please let us know if you know of any more contests or venues for medical student writing and we will add them to the list.
And of course, the VCOM medical student writing blog, vcomwriters.blogspot.com, is always taking submissions! Contact vcombioethics@gmail.com to submit your work!
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*Time-Sensitive, Deadlines Announced*
No current contests...that we know of.
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Annual Contests, Deadlines TBA
The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Essay Contest
Website:http://humanism-in-medicine.org
Deadline: 2011 contest deadline has passed.
Prizes: First $1000, Second: $500, Third: $250
To enter, fill out entry form and submit essay electronically (see website for details).
Essays will be graded on both content and style. Past Essay Contest judges have included Jerome Groopman, Perri Klass, Sherwin Nuland, Abraham Verghese, among others. In addition, the AAMC’s Academic Medicine will continue its tradition of publishing the top three winning essays.
Bander Essay Contest in Medical Business Ethics
The Bander Essay Contest is supported by the Saint Louis University Bander Center for Medical Business Ethics. The contest is meant to encourage scholarly inquiry into business ethics within the practice of medicine or the conduct of medical research.
Prizes: Author of the best essay will receive $5000. If more than one exceptional entry is received, up to three runner-up prizes of $1,000 each will be awarded. Winning essays will be published in the AMA's Journal of Ethics, Virtual Mentor.
Eligibility: Medical students, resident physicians, fellows, and physicians are eligible.
Deadline: TBA
See their website for details and to see the prompt: http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/site/aboutbander.html
AOA Bureau of Osteopathic History and Identity 6th Annual History Essay Competition
Prizes: $5,000 first prize, $3,000 second prize, and $2,000 third prize.
Requirements: Contestants are asked to focus their essays on one of the following principles from the bureau's "Core Principles for Teaching the History of Osteopathic Medicine." Maximum length 3,000 words. For full details, please see the full information on the competition at http://www.do-online.org/TheDO/?p=20961
Deadline: TBA
William Carlos Williams Poetry Competition
Deadline: TBA
Website: http://www.neoucom.edu/DEPTS/PubRel/Poetry2011.pdf
Best original, unpublished poem submitted by a medical student.
Top three poets will be awarded $300, $200, and $100, respectively.
Osler Medal Essay Contest
http://www.histmed.org/osler_medal.htm
The William Osler Medal is awarded annually for the best unpublished essay on a medical historical topic written by a student enrolled in a school of medicine or osteopathy in the United States or Canada. First awarded in 1942, the medal commemorates Sir William Osler, who stimulated an interest in the humanities among medical students and physicians. The writer of the winning essay will be invited to attend the 2011 AAHM meeting, April 28–May 1, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where the medal will be conferred. Reasonable travel expenses will be provided, as will a two-year complimentary membership in the AAHM. If the Osler Medal Committee also selects an essay for honorable mention, its author will receive a certificate and a two-year complimentary membership in the Association.
Deadline: TBA
Kaiser Family Foundation 2011 Essay Contest
Deadline has passed for 2011
Website: http://www.kaiseredu.org/Essay-Contest.aspx
Topic: In March 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). There has been extensive debate over the law, and Americans remain divided about what lawmakers should do going forward. Some favor expansion of the law, some want to leave it as is and focus on implementation, and some want to repeal parts of or the entire law.
You've just been hired as a health aide to member of Congress (choose one) who has asked you to prepare a memo summarizing what the next steps should be on health reform. In 1,000 words or less, please explain and justify your recommendations, identify major challenges, and discuss how they could be addressed.
Prizes will be awarded to the top undergraduate and graduate student entries.
First Prize: $1500
Second Prize: $750
Undergraduate and graduate students will be judged separately. In addition to the monetary prizes, the winning essays will be posted on kaiserEDU.org and announced via email to subscribers of the website. The winning students' schools will also be notified.
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Always Looking for Submissions
Academic Medicine is seeking submissions of original artwork of any visual medium to be featured on the cover of the journal.
Submissions should be inspired by some aspect of the “academic medicine experience” – for example, learning how to be a physician or scientist, caring for patients, exploring research questions, making a new discovery, teaching, or being sick in a teaching hospital. Submissions may reflect such experiences from any perspective – teacher or learner, patient or caregiver, researcher or human participant in an experiment. Submissions must be accompanied by an Artist’s Statement of no more than 600 words. The Statement should serve to illuminate the connection between your work and your academic medicine experience. It can focus narrowly on a specific piece or can discuss your work process more generally. Browse our AM Cover Art Gallery to view past selections.
Contact Anne L. Farmakidis
Managing Editor, Academic Medicine
Association of American Medical Colleges
2450 N Street, NW, Washington, DC 20037
Phone: (202) 828-0593
Fax: (202) 828-4798
Email: afarmakidis@aamc.org
academicmedicine.org
Global Pulse Journal
This is AMSA's international health journal (AMSA = American Medical Student Association), dedicated to demonstrating that American medical students are concerned with the health of the international community.
Subject matter accepted: GPJ publishes content related to global health that is relevant to health professionals in training. We adopt the definition set out by the Consortium of Universities for Global Health:
“Global health is an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving equity in health for all people worldwide. Global health emphasizes transnational health issues, determinants, and solutions; involves many disciplines within and beyond the health sciences and promotes interdisciplinary collaboration; and is a synthesis of population based prevention with individual-level clinical care.”
Submissions to Global Pulse Journal should be engaging and readily understood by medical students unfamiliar with topic material.
Who can submit: GPJ publishes material written by medical and pre-medical students, residents, and other health professionals in training.
Check out their website for more information.
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That's right. This blog. We're looking for original writing from VCOM medical students on all aspects of medical school, and would especially like to hear from 3rd and 4th years about their experiences on the wards. We can't offer you any money but we can offer you an audience for your writings and our own admiration for your writing prowess.
Please email vcombioethics at gmail.com with questions and submissions.
