The ABIM Foundation’s 2025 Building Trust Essay Contest invites students and trainees of health professions (e.g., nursing, medicine, pharmacy, physician assistants, and others) to reflect on trust and medical professionalism in health care, exploring how generational and value shifts have influenced their perspectives. Up to four winners will be invited to the 2025 ABIM Foundation Forum in San Diego, CA, with travel and lodging covered.
Essay submissions will be accepted through April 2, 2025.
- Learn more about the contest.
- Explore past essay prompts and read winning essays.
- Learn more about the ABIM Foundation Forum.
How you can help:
- Inform students and trainees about the contest via email announcements, in-person announcements, flyers, intranet or student portal, newsletters, and social media.
- Encourage students and trainees to participate and submit their essays.
- Direct students and trainees to this link to learn more about the contest and review submission guidelines: abimfoundation.org/2025EssayContest
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- Utilize the provided hashtags in your posts: #BuildingTrust, #BuildingTrustEssayContest
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- The ABIM Foundation is now accepting submissions for the 2025 #BuildingTrustEssayContest! Students and trainees are invited to share personal stories about trust and professionalism in health care. Winners will be invited (all expenses paid) to attend the 2025 ABIM Foundation Forum in San Diego.
- Students and trainees: Do you have a story about trust in health care that has helped shaped your journey? Reflect on medical professionalism, generational dynamics, and values in health care. Submit your 750-word essay for a chance to share your insights and attend the 2025 ABIM Foundation Forum (all expenses paid)!
- Trust is the foundation of professionalism in health care, but how do we navigate generational and values-based differences? The 2025 ABIM Foundation #BuildingTrustEssayContest invites students and trainees to explore these challenges and opportunities. Share your story for a chance to attend the 2025 ABIM Foundation Forum (all expenses paid) and shape the future of trust in medicine.
- The ABIM Foundation is now accepting submissions for the 2025 #BuildingTrustEssayContest – open to health professions students and trainees (e.g., nursing, medicine, pharmacy, physician assistants, and others) at accredited schools in the U.S. Submissions must be original, unpublished works. Submission deadline = April 2.
- Medical, nursing, and pharmacy students and trainees: The 2025 #BuildingTrustEssayContest deadline is fast approaching. Winners will be invited to attend the ABIM Foundation’s annual conference (all expenses paid).
- Medical students and trainees: How has a moment in your training—whether with a patient, mentor, team, or system—shaped your understanding of trust through the lens of medical professionalism? Submit an original, unpublished essay to the ABIM Foundation’s 2025 #BuildingTrustEssayContest by April 2.
- Nursing students: How has a moment in your training—whether with a patient, mentor, team, or system—shaped your understanding of trust through the lens of medical professionalism? Submit an original, unpublished essay to the ABIM Foundation’s 2025 #BuildingTrustEssayContest by April 2.
- Pharmacy students and trainees: How has a moment in your training—whether with a patient, mentor, team, or system—shaped your understanding of trust through the lens of medical professionalism? Submit an original, unpublished essay to the ABIM Foundation’s 2025 #BuildingTrustEssayContest by April 2.
- PT/OT students: How has a moment in your training—whether with a patient, mentor, team, or system—shaped your understanding of trust through the lens of medical professionalism? Submit an original, unpublished essay to the ABIM Foundation’s 2025 #BuildingTrustEssayContest by April 2.
Newsletter/Website/Blog Copy
As health professionals, trust forms the cornerstone of our relationships—with patients, colleagues, and communities—and is a central aspect of improving health care.
To highlight the underlying importance of trust in health care, and elevate the student perspective, the ABIM Foundation’s Building Trust Essay Contest asks students and trainees of health professions to engage in a reflective writing exercise about their experiences with trust.
This year, students and trainees are asked to tell a story about a moment that shaped their understanding of trust through the lens of medical professionalism.
The Building Trust Essay Contest is open to students and trainees of health professions (e.g., nursing, medicine, pharmacy, physical therapy, and others) at accredited schools of medicine in the United States. Submissions must be an original essay of 750 words or less.
Up to four winners will each receive an all-expenses-paid invitation to the ABIM Foundation’s annual conference (July 26-29, 2025, in San Diego, CA). Winning essayists will also receive support in submitting their essays to one or more prestigious national medical publications. All winning essays and up to 10 honorable mentions will be published on http://www.BuildingTrust.org, and will receive recognition in select newsletters and on social media.
The deadline for submission is April 2, 2025, and winners will be notified in early May. Learn more about the contest and submit your essay.
