Topic outline
- General
- Internal Prizes
Internal Prizes
Each medical humanities course usually awards a prize to the student with the highest A grade on CGS. These are for either £25 or £50 dependant on credits.
There is an overall prize for the SSC - Lady Jameson Fellowship Prize awarded to the student or students with the best performance in terms of effort, initiative or results, in the Medical Humanities SSC. Chosen from eligible students in consultation with the External Examiner.
Please see separate tab for Prizes in memoriam Dr Jeannie MacLeod (1874-1902)
- External Prizes and Publication
External Prizes and Publication
There are are a variety of journals and societies that publish medical humanities work, hold conferences and award prizes in this area. Aberdeen medical students have been sucessful in relation to the following examples but there are others out there!
Scottish Medical Humanities Group
http://www.scottishmedicalhumanities.org/human/
There are opportunities for submissions to be made for events and the website.
Association of Medical and Health Humanities
There are opportunities to submit for events including student conference with prizes, for publication in journal and blogs on website
Successful students:
Poster Prize Greenwich 2016 Agena Agenor - The Stethoscope
Presentation Keele 2017 Eleanor Harlow - Compassion; The human response to sufferingASME and JASME Junior Association Study Medical Education
The association of medical education offers a range of awards which medical humanities work may be appropriate to submit to. For more information explore the awards at.
https://www.asme.org.uk/awardsClosing Date: Feb/March
The Junior Association for the Study of Medical Education (JASME) is a career group within ASME for medical students and Foundation Year doctors. One of its key goals is to encourage, promote and conduct medical education research initiated by students and junior doctors.The Sir John Ellis Prize is an established and highly regarded national prize for new student work on a topic within medical education. Besides being awarded the prize, winners will be invited to present their work at a plenary session of the ASME Annual Scholarship Meeting.
NES Annual Virtual Conference
25-26 April 2024 - Developing a Compassionate, skilled and sustainable workforce through innovative education and technology.
Students who undertook ME33HF Human Factors 23-24 will present on their experience.
Society for the Social History of Medicine
Undergraduate Essay Prize
Three £100 prizes for the best unpublished original research essays in the social history of medicine, by medical, healthcare and allied science students.Roy Porter Student Essay Prize
£500 prize will be awarded to the best original, unpublished essay in the social history of medicine
The competition is open to undergraduate and post-graduate students in full or part-time education.https://sshm.org/portfolio/prizes/
Hektoen International Journal and essay prize
http://www.hektoeninternational.org/
Grand Prix Essay Competition
Two prizes will be awarded: $3000 for the winner and $800 for the runner up. Topics might include art, history, literature, education, etc. as they relate to medicine. Essays should be under 1600 words. The deadline is April.Themed Summer Essay Contest
Themed contest last year on Food and the Body. Two awards will be presented: (1) award of $2500 will be awarded for the winning essay and (1) award of $800 for the runner-up. The deadline is SeptemberVidhi Naik essay publication and Essay prize runner up 22-23 https://hekint.org/2023/01/11/from-silks-to-science-the-history-of-hematoxylin-and-eosin-staining/
Craig Stout essay publication:
https://hekint.org/2019/05/10/medical-innovations-made-by-doctors-during-the-napoleonic-warNikki MacArthur essay publication:https://hekint.org/macarthur_lewis-hospitals/
Anatomical Society
Anatomical Society Best Image Prize (anatsoc.org.uk)
National Scottish Medical Education Conference
https://events.nes.scot.nhs.uk
Poster 2017 Andreas Koshias - Do Not Resuscitate: University of Aberdeen Student PerspectivesBMJ
https://www.bmj.com/
Presentation Andreas Koshias at Marie Curie/Royal Society of Medicine conference "People who care: Relationships at the end of life." And abstract published in BMJ supportive and palliative care https://spcare.bmj.com/content/7/3/A357.2Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh
Nicola Newall publication; Neurosurgery in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary c. 1920–c. 1940: knowledge, skills and styles
https://www.rcpe.ac.uk/college/journal/neurosurgery-aberdeen-royal-infirmary-c-1920-c-1940-knowledge-skills-and-stylesSociety of Cardiothoracic Surgeons
Sayed Almoosawy and Megan Williams publication; The Power of Art in Cardiothoracic Surgery
https://issuu.com/open-box/docs/scts_bulletin_08?fr=sNzAxODE2MDM0OTU&fbclid=IwAR3fg7qF6Bi9Ii1w3D-H_-kmNk5sX3FiB23EVZgkEVMZuQ2IYw7DMFFKvXMRemote and Rural Health
Megan Quinn; The role of transport and telecommunications technology in the development of the Scottish Highlands and Islands Medical Service: a historical perspective. https://doi.org/10.22605/RRH6560
Epilepsy and Behaviour
Lucrezia Piccicacchi; A systematic review of the Mozart effect in adult and paediatric cases of drug-resistant epilepsy: A sound approach to epilepsy management https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1525505024001240#f0010