Anesthesia
History Association
C. Ronald Stephen Resident Essay Contest
2008
Past contest winners and a bibliography of
published entries available here.
ENTRIES
MUST BE RECEIVED ON OR BEFORE
September 10, 2008
The Anesthesia History Association (AHA)
sponsors an annual contest for the best essay on the history of anesthesia,
pain medicine or intensive care. This contest is open to all residents and
fellows in anesthesiology. The purpose of the contest is to promote interest in
the history of anesthesia and to advance professionalism in the specialty. Additionally this contest offers residents
and fellows the opportunity to present their paper at a national meeting and to
publish the results of their research.
The Resident Essay Contest is named for Dr. C. Ronald Stephen an
anesthesiologist who was a revered teacher, researcher, clinician and
anesthesia historian. Dr. Stephen died
at age 90 in 2006. A remembrance of Dr.
Stephen by Doris K. Cope, M.D., was published in the Bulletin of Anesthesia History 25(1):
1, January 2007.
The essays must be written in English and be
approximately 3,000 to 5000 words in length.
Judging will be in two stages. In
the first stage the finalists will be chosen.
These finalists will be announced at the AHA dinner meeting during the
American Society of Anesthesiologists annual meeting. From these finalists, the winners will be
chosen on the basis of both content and delivery during the spring meeting of
the AHA. All the finalists will present
their papers in a session of the AHA attended by a panel of judges. The panel of judges will make their final
decision based on originality, appropriateness of topic, quality of the
research, and delivery. Because the
final judging will be at the time of the presentation at the spring meeting of
the AHA, all who enter must agree to attend the meeting at which the
presentations are made. A Microsoft Word
electronic copy of the essay must be submitted by the 10th of September
in order to be eligible for presentation at the spring AHA meeting of the
following calendar year. If not received
by that date they will be considered for the next year’s contest.
The first, second, and third place winners receive
$500 $200 and $100 respectively. Awards
will be made during the AHA spring meeting. The three winners are required to
submit their essays to the peer-reviewed Bulletin of Anesthesia History for
possible publication.
To enter, essays should be sent to:
William
Hammonds, MD, MPH
Professor,
Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative
Medicine
(706)721-3871
ENTRIES
MUST BE RECEIVED ON OR BEFORE
September 10, 2008
Past contest winners and a bibliography of published entries available here.