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The Medical Humanities Student Essay Award

The Medical Humanities Student Essay Award is sponsored by the John Shaw Billings History of Medicine Society, and the IUPUI Medical Humanities - Health Studies Program.

Description/Purpose: The Medical Humanities Student Essay Award is given to a student at IUPUI whose writing is judged to be the best on a topic in the medical humanities and health studies. This $500 award recognizes the work of students in understanding health and medicine from the perspectives of the Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences.

Selection Process: Papers will be judged by the Medical Humanities Program Committee, and the award will be announced at April 2008 Liberal Arts Honors Convocation ceremonies. In the event of a tie, the award will be divided between winners. Undergraduate papers are judged separately from graduate papers.

Criteria: The paper must be written by an undergraduate or graduate/professional student for a course taken at IUPUI, and written within the past two academic years on a subject that utilizes the perspectives of the humanities or health studies (i.e., ethical, legal, social, historical, etc.) to gain a broader understanding of medicine and healthcare. Graduate theses and dissertations are not eligible for this award.

The typical paper should be between 10 to 25 pages in length, and submitted on a clean, typed hard copy, or electronically in a Microsoft Word document. Hard copies should be delivered to Cavanaugh 406, and electronic copies attached to an email and sent to jizukac@iupui.edu by the deadline posted below. Confirmations of receipt of entries will be emailed to the applicants. Entries received after the deadline cannot be accepted or considered for the competition.

The paper must have a separate title page with the following information:

• student’s name, address, telephone number, and email address
• date the paper was written
• the course for which it was written
• student status at the time of writing and current student status.

The remaining pages should not have any identifying information, but should have the paper title and page numbers.

Amount of Award: $500
Call for Applications: Receiving now in CA406
Application Deadline: Wednesday, March 5, 2008 by 4:00 p.m.
For questions or more information, please call (317) 274-4740 or email Judi Campbell at jizukac@iupui.edu

Archive of MH-HS Student Essay Award Winners

Contact Information
Medical Humanities - Health Studies Program
Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis
425 University Boulevard, Cavanaugh Hall Room 406
Indianapolis, IN 46202-5140
(317) 274-4740

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