PAEA
Writing Contest
Physician
Assistant Education Association (PAEA) announces the 2008–09 Student Writing
Competition, which provides an opportunity for PA students to submit original
entries featuring their medical writing skills. To memorialize early contributions
in support of student writing made by J. Peter Nyquist, the student taking
first place continues to be designated the Nyquist Award winner.
The
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (JAAPA) , the
sponsor of the competition for the seventh consecutive year, will award
monetary prizes to three students and cover their travel expenses to attend
AAPA's 37th Annual PA Conference in San Diego, California. Students whose
entries are selected will have the opportunity to present them to peers
and faculty as part of the SAAAPA Student Professional Workshops during
the Annual PA Conference, May 23–28.
All
submissions, including any attachments, must be Word documents and submitted
electronically. Each student entry requires an accompanying endorsement
from the student's program director. Directors are asked to e-mail endorsements
from their own e-mail accounts to verify that each student entry from
their programs is the student's original work and that the entrant authored
the paper while he or she was a student in the PA program. Submissions
will not be considered complete until the program director's endorsement
has been received at PAEA headquarters. All student entries, as well as
program directors' endorsements, the deadline is February 15,
2009.
Eligibility
and Submission Procedures
The
eligibility requirements for entries submitted to the PAEA Student Writing
Competition for past cycles follows. All first-and second-year students,
as well as recent graduates, are eligible to apply. Papers must be authored
by students while enrolled in a PA program, but will be accepted if the
entrant has graduated within the year prior to the submission deadline.
Papers may be single author or joint projects; if a jointly authored paper
is submitted, all authors must meet eligibility requirements. Topics for
submission must be germane to the PA profession, but authors may utilize
any of a number of formats including, but not limited to, essays on medical,
social, political or ethical issues the impact the practice of medicine
by PAs; clinical review articles, evidence-based reviews of a clinical
question, and reports of original student research projects. Papers may
be no longer than 3,500 words (not including title page, abstract, legends,
tables, figures, and references). Submissions are accepted only in electronic
format and must comply with the guidelines announced in late fall each
year at www.paeaonline.org . For the 08-09 cycle, additional
guidelines will be in effect specifying the amount of assistance faculty
may provide to students’ entries, in addition to a statement for each
entry to be completed by the student that the submission is his own work
and that all sources have been appropriately acknowledged.
Awards
Three
prizes are awarded. The first prize winner will be designated the J. Peter
Nyquist winner and will be awarded $500. The second prize will be $300,
and third prize will be $200. If a prize-winning paper has more than one
author, the cash award will be divided equally among the paper’s authors.
The Journal of the American Association of Physician Assistants
(JAAPA) has supported this competition for several years.
Find
out more information at http://www.paeaonline.org/ResearchInstitute/StudentWriting/Announce.htm.
