If you are a student of this institution then you are grab the opportunity to earn $ 2000 by participating and winning the Alpha Omega Alpha Helen H. Glaser Student Essay Contest.
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Purpose:
To encourage medical students to address nontechnical topics in medicine, Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society instituted this competition to recognize and reward excellent and thoughtful student compositions.
Prizes:
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$2000 first, $750 second, $500 third, and honorable mention awards of $250 each. Prizes will be paid after the receipt of required documentation (see Requirements for winning essays, below).
Eligibility:
Authors must be enrolled at medical schools with active chapters (Class of 2009 or later), but need not be members of . Only one entry may be submitted by an author.
Dates:
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Entries must be postmarked no later than January 31, 2009, and sent by first-class mail, express mail, or by courier. Winners will be announced about May 1, 2009.
Requirements for the essays:
The paper must not have been offered to or published by any other journal and must be submitted to The Pharos, the official publication of , which has the right of first refusal.
Requirements for winning essays
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When notified that they have received an award, authors of all winning papers must provide documentation of references in photocopy as follows: title pages of all books cited; the first and last pages of book chapters cited; the table of contents of the particular issue of the journal in which a cited article appeared; all quotations, from the primary sources, including page numbers. The author’s Social Security number will be required for payment of the award. Errata: Authors may present their essays at national meetings. Papers not accepted for The Pharos but published elsewhere should include the following acknowledgment: Submitted as an entry in the 2009 Alpha Omega Alpha Student Essay Competition.