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Competition Opens for Young Physicians Patient Safety Award



Medical Students and Residents Encouraged to Submit Essays for $5,000 Awards

Entries are now being accepted for the 2014 Young Physicians Patient Safety Award, The Doctors Company Foundation has 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. Click here for online entry forms.

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.” 

Click here to read past winning essays.

About The Doctors Company Foundation: The Doctors Company Foundation was created in 2008 by The Doctors Company, the nation’s largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer. The purpose of the Foundation is to support patient safety education for healthcare professionals, patient safety research with clinically useful applications, and medical professional liability research. In this context, patient safety is defined as a healthcare discipline that minimizes the incidence and impact of adverse events by redesigning systems and processes using human factors principles to reduce errors.

Contact Alina Gomez at agomez@the doctors.com.



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