The Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest asks medical and nursing students to engage in a reflective writing exercise that illustrates an experience where they or a healthcare team member worked to ensure that humanism was at the core of care.
For the 2022 Hope Babette Tang Humanism in Healthcare Essay Contest, medical and nursing students were asked to reflect on the following quote from U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy in his book Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World:
“Creating a connected life begins with the decisions we make in our day-to-day lives. Do we choose to make time for people? Do we show up as our true selves? Do we seek out others with kindness, recognizing the power of service to bring us together?”
2022 Essay Contest Winners
2022 Medical Student Winners
First Place | “The Light”
Mason Blacker
NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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Second Place | “Every Patient After”
Molly Fessler
University of Michigan Medical School
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Third Place | “To Tend to a Life Story”
Nali Gillespie
Duke University School of Medicine
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2022 Nursing Student Winners
First Place | “As the Sun Sets”
Jessica Pierce
Oregon Health & Science University
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Second Place | “A Song for the Dying”
Victoria Furka
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, College of Nursing
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Third Place | “She Served Him Well”
Danielle Blackwell
Frontier Nursing University
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