The Building Trust Essay Contest asks students of health professions to engage in a reflective writing exercise about their experiences with trust. This year, students are asked to tell a story that illustrates an experience engaging in meaningful dialogue with someone whose views are different from their own, in pursuit of enhancing patient care.
How you can help:
- Inform students about the contest via email announcements, in-person announcements, flyers, intranet or student portal, newsletters, and social media.
- Encourage students to participate and submit their essays.
- Direct students to this link to learn more about the contest and submit: https://abimfoundation.org/2024EssayContest
When: The submission form will be open through March 22, 2024.
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- Exciting opportunity for students of health professions! Submit your original essay (750 words or less) about engaging in meaningful dialogue with diverse perspectives to enhance patient care to the ABIM Foundation‘s #BuildingTrustEssayContest. https://bit.ly/2024BTEssayContest
- The ABIM Foundation is accepting submissions for its 2024 #BuildingTrustEssayContest – open to health professions students (e.g., nursing, medicine, pharmacy, physician assistants, and others) at accredited schools in the U.S. Submissions must be original. Submission deadline = March 22. https://bit.ly/2024BTEssayContest
- Medical, nursing, and pharmacy students: The #BuildingTrustEssayContest deadline is fast approaching. Winners will attend the ABIM Foundation’s annual conference (all expenses paid). https://bit.ly/2024BTEssayContest
- Medical students: Do you have a story about engaging in meaningful dialogue with diverse perspectives to enhance patient care? Submit an original essay to the ABIMFoundation’s #BuildingTrustEssayContest by March 22. https://bit.ly/2024BTEssayContest
- Nursing students: Do you have a story about engaging in meaningful dialogue with diverse perspectives to enhance patient care? Submit an original essay to the ABIM Foundation’s #BuildingTrustEssayContest by March 22. https://bit.ly/2024BTEssayContest
- Pharmacy students: Do you have a story about engaging in meaningful dialogue with diverse perspectives to enhance patient care? Submit an original essay to the ABIM Foundation’s #BuildingTrustEssayContest by March 22. https://bit.ly/2024BTEssayContest
- PT/OT students: Do you have a story about engaging in meaningful dialogue with diverse perspectives to enhance patient care? Submit an original essay to the ABIM Foundation’s #BuildingTrustEssayContest by March 22. https://bit.ly/2024BTEssayContest
- The ABIM Foundation’s #BuildingTrustEssayContest seeks stories from students of health professions (e.g., nursing, medicine, pharmacy, physician assistants, and others) that illustrate an experience engaging in meaningful dialogue with someone whose views are different from their own, in pursuit of enhancing patient care. Submissions are due on March 22. https://bit.ly/2024BTEssayContest
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2024 Building Trust Essay Contest
Trust is a central aspect of improving health care, and relationships between patients, clinicians, and health care organizations need to be grounded in trust in order to succeed.
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 of health professions to engage in a reflective writing exercise about their experiences with trust.
This year, students are asked to tell a story that illustrates an experience engaging in meaningful dialogue with someone whose views are different from their own, in pursuit of enhancing patient care.
The Building Trust Essay Contest is open to students of all 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 27-30, 2024, in Stevenson, WA). 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 www.BuildingTrust.org, and will receive recognition in select newsletters and on social media.
The deadline for submission is March 22, 2024 and winners will be notified in early May. Learn more about the contest and submit your essay. (https://bit.ly/BTEssayContest24)
