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
http://www.amh.ac.uk
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 suffering
ASME 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/awards
John Ellis Student Prize
https://www.asme.org.uk/assessment/sirjohnellis/
Closing 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.
GLADD The Association of LGBTQ+Doctors and Dentists
GLADD is running a Student Prize, inviting all Medical and Dental students to present a piece of creative writing (excluding academic essays) on the subject of ‘The History of LGBTQ+ Medicine’. This competition will give participants the opportunity to
explore an area of healthcare that they may be less familiar with and present their findings to a panel of high-profile judges in a way that promotes creativity and originality in their work. Deadline 21st Oct 2024
Prizes will
be awarded to the entrants by our judging panel, made up of GLADD committee
members and special judges Adam Kay and Zoë Playdon. All entrants will receive a free
1-year GLADD membership and a signed certificate. There are also cash prizes
for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners. The
website, and further details on the prize, can be found here.
There is no
word limit within reason. Work of any length that suits the size of the
submission (with a suggested limit of 2000 words) will be accepted, but this is
dependent on the format of the piece. If a piece’s format necessitates a higher
word count, then it will still be accepted, and students may email students@gladd.co.uk for advice.
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 presented 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 September
Jiero Viray published 2026 Rapid eye movement (REM) parasomnia: A historical review - Hektoen International
Vidhi 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-war
Nikki MacArthur essay publication on Lewis Hospitals
Anatomical Society
https://www.anatsoc.org.uk/grants-prizes/prizes/best-image-prize/
National Scottish Medical Education Conference
https://events.nes.scot.nhs.uk
Poster 2017 Andreas Koshias - Do Not Resuscitate: University of Aberdeen Student Perspectives
BMJ
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/A357.2
Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh
Nicola Newall publication; Neurosurgery in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary c. 1920–c. 1940: knowledge, skills and styles
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.4997/jrcpe.2019.115
Society 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_-kmNk5sX3FiB23EVZgkEVMZuQ2IYw7DMFFKvXM
Remote 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