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2008 ACLM Student Writing Competition

EXPIRED: January 15, 2008.

American College of Legal Medicine 2008 Student Writing Competition in Legal Medicine

Every year, the American College of Legal Medicine (ACLM) presents a $1,000 Award in each of the following categories, for the outstanding original paper on Legal Medicine.

  • The Letourneau Award to a Law Student
  • The Schwartz Award to a Medical Student
  • The Hirsh Award to a Dentistry, Podiatry, Nursing, Pharmacy, Health Science, Health Care Administration, or Public Health Student

The Letourneau Award to a Law Student

Legal medicine is the professional and academic discipline that concerns itse3lf with legal aspects of medical science, medical practice and other health care delivery. Practitioners of the specialty have sufficient training, knowledge and expertise to address the scope of the specialty from a scholarly, scientific, and practical perspective.

Applicant Criteria

  1. All authors must have previously achieved a baccalaureate degree or equivalent from an accredited institution and must be currently enrolled in an accredited law, medical, podiatric, nursing, dental, health science or health care administration program in the United States or Canada.
  2. No paper that has been previously published in any form will be considered; however, papers written for scholarly classes will be allowed as long as they have not been published.
  3. All papers submitted will receive consideration for publication in the Journal of Legal Medicine or other medical legal publications.
  4. Authors can submit their papers to only one of the ACLM's student writing competitions.

Content

  1. Papers must contain only uncollaborated original work.
  2. Papers may relate to research done by the author
  3. Papers may deal with any aspect of Legal Medicine, including medical licensure and regulation of the profession, business aspects of medical practice, liability of physicians, hospitals, managed care organizations, and pharmaceutical manufacturers, public health law, the physician-patient relationship, care of special patients, food and drug law, medical research, forensic science and the history of legal medicine.

Deadline and Submission

  1. The papers must be submitted only via email to info@aclm.org, in either a Word or Adobe document. Papers transmitted or sent in any other format will not be considered for the writing competition.
  2. Authors must submit their papers by the end of the business day, January 15, 2008. Under no circumstances will any paper be considered unless it is submitted by the deadline and in the required format.
  3. Direct Questions to:

    Student Writing Competition
    American College of Legal Medicine
    Two Woodfield Lake
    1100 E. Woodfield Road, Suite 520
    Schaumburg, IL 60173
    Phone: (847) 969-0283
    Web: www.aclm.org

  4. Winners will be announced at the ACLM Annual Meeting, February 29-March 2, 2008, in Houston, Texas, and may appear personally, at their own expense, if they wish to be recognized.

For more information regarding this writing competition, go to http://www.aclm.org/resources/swc/default.aspx.