Student essay prize

A prize of £250 will be awarded to the undergraduate healthcare student who submits the best 1,500 word essay titled ‘The Story of my Illness’ and the winning essay will be published in the Journal of holistic healthcare.  We invite students to imagine themselves to be a patient and tell the story of an illness from the patient’s perspective.

The closing date is 1st July 2012.  Please submit your essay with your name, address, email, university or college course attending, year of study, and send by e-mail to cbrown9811@aol.com

The winner of past BHMA annual essay prizes were;

2011 Thea Collins               2030. What made the NHS sustainable?

The runners up were Nicola Johnson a 4th year Medical student from Sheffiled, and Rosa Roberts a 3rd year medical student from Brighton.
 

2010 Jason Ferdjani            Improving global well being, improving personal well being (vol7 issues 1 p33)

2009 Krishna Steedhar         Student’s health matters 

2008 Phoebe Votolato         Being a Medical student

2007 Lewis Morgan             A good holistic practitioner