Summary of the 2020 essay contest.
In 2020, those participating in the Pam and Rolando Del Maestro Family William Osler Medical Student Essay Awards had to contend with a unique challenge: how to write an original research paper in the humanities or social sciences without access to physical libraries. The essayists met the challenge and the resulting submissions were truly impressive. This year, we had the pleasure of hearing the results of the students' work at the听Del Maestro Family Medical Students' Humanities and Social Sciences Symposium.
In addition to congratulating the participants, we must give our deepest thanks to the mentors who worked with the students and to the essay awards committee, whose members had the unenviable task of choosing winners from a pool where each contribution was worthy in its own right.
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The results of the 2020 contest were听as follows:听
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First place:听Saman Arfaie, "
Exploring the Relationship Between Robert Schumann's Bipolar Disorder and His Creative Musical Genius.."听听Reflective piece by Saman Arfaie. -
Second place:听Minahil Khan, "Colourful Innovations in Neuropathology: Robert Hooper and the Shift in Portrayal of the Morbid Brain in the Nineteenth Century."听
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Third place:听Cassandra Poirier,听"The Path of the Wounded Healer: Revisiting the Study of Shamanism Through a Phenomenological Approach."听
听Reflective piece by Cassandra Poirier.
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In addition to the finalists above, we听thank the following essayists for participating in the symposium:
- Jenny Jing, 鈥淎 Need to Renegotiate Physicians鈥� Social Contract in Sports Medicine.鈥澨�听Reflective piece by Jenny Jing.
- Kayleigh Beaveridge, 鈥淪yphilis to Autism, How the Anti-Vaccination Movement of Today is an Echo of the Past.鈥澨�听Reflective piece by Kayleigh Beaveridge.
- Britta Gustavson, 鈥淩e-embodying Medicine: William Carlos Williams and the Ethics of Attention.鈥澨�听Reflective piece by Britta Gustavson.
- Matthew J. Schulz, 鈥淣euroanesthesia and Neurosurgery鈥檚 Symbiotic Development.鈥澨�听Reflective piece by Matthew Schulz.听
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We would also like to acknowledge the work of those unable to present at the symposium:
- Ericka Iny, "The Commodification of Humanism: Methods, Marketing, and Morals of a Post-Modern Shift in the Philosophy of Medicine."听听Reflective piece by Ericka Iny.
- Kacper Niburski, 鈥淭he Principles and Practice of Death: The Oslerian Conflicted Conception of Dying.鈥澨�听Reflective piece by Kacper Niburski. A appeared in the Journal of Medical Biography.
