Competition Opens for Young Physicians Patient Safety Award

Entries are now being accepted for the 2014 Young Physicians Patient Safety Award, The Doctors Company Foundation announced. Medical students and residents are eligible to compete for six $5,000 awards. Winners will also receive travel to the Association of American Medical College’s Integrating Quality meeting in Chicago June 12–13, 2014, where the awards will be presented.

 

Entrants must be third- or fourth-year medical students or first-year residents who were in a hospital setting as of June 2013. Entrants must submit a 500- to 1,000-word essay describing an instructional patient safety event they experienced during a clinical rotation that resulted in a personal transformation. Essays are due by 5:00 PM (ET) on Monday, February 3, 2014. Online entry forms are available at http://bit.ly/PtSafetyAward.

 

The contest is sponsored by The Doctors Company Foundation in partnership with the Lucian Leape Institute at the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF). Entries will be judged by a panel selected by the NPSF.

 

“One of the missions of our Foundation is to support patient safety education for healthcare professionals,” said Leona Egeland Siadek, the Foundation’s executive director. “The Young Physicians Patient Safety Award is a key to this mission. These essays bring to the forefront the importance of making the culture of safety an integral part of the culture of medicine.”

 

Past winning essays can be read at http://npsfcongress.org/young-physicians-essays/2013-winners-one.