The
Florida State University Center for Innovative Collaboration
in Medicine and
Law
2014 Mollie and Paul Hill Student Writing
Competition
in
Medical-Legal Interprofessional Collaboration
Beginning
in 2014, the Florida State University Center for Innovative Collaboration in
Medicine and Law, based in both the FSU College of Medicine and the FSU College
of Law, will present awards for the outstanding original papers submitted by a
law student and a medical student or medical resident in response to a question
pertaining to collaboration between the medical and legal professions. This writing
competition is made possible by a generous gift from Mollie and Paul Hill.
AWARDS
- $250 Outstanding
Paper by a Law Student
- $250 Outstanding
Paper by a Medical Student or Medical Resident
2014 CONTEST
QUESTION
The
Affordable Care Act (ACA) enacted into law in 2010 attempts to improve the
access of Americans to improved quality health care, while controlling the
nation’s escalating health care expenditures. As the ACA gets further
implemented in 2014,
discuss opportunities and challenges this law presents for constructive,
innovative collaboration between the legal and medical professions in
contributing to the quest for a more affordable and accessible high quality
health care system.
APPLICANT AND
PAPER CRITERIA
1.
All authors must be enrolled, at the time of paper submission, in an accredited
law school or medical school (M.D. or D.O.) or participating in an accredited
medical residency program in the United States.
2.
No paper that has been previously published in any form will be considered;
however, papers written for course credit are allowed as long as they have not
been published. An applicant may submit a paper for publication consideration after
the winner of this writing competition has been announced.
3.
Each submitted paper must be the original work of a single author.
FORMAT
1.
The length of the paper must be between 1,200 and 5,000 words. The word count
applies to the total paper, including title page, body, footnotes, figures, and
tables (if any).
2.
No abstract is required.
3.
All references should be in the form of footnotes, using either Blue Book or
APA style.
4.
All papers are to be submitted in Word document format, using 12 point Times
New Roman font for all text, including footnotes. The body of papers must be
double-spaced and footnotes should be single-spaced. All text must have one inch
margins. All pages must be numbered.
5.
The first page must be the cover page, which must include: the author’s name,
full contact information, and school or residency program, as well as the final
word count obtained from Word and a disclosure of any conflict of interest affecting
the author concerning the subject matter of the paper.
6.
At the top of the first page of text, only the title of the paper should
appear.
7.
If the author wishes to acknowledge an individual or institution, this may be
done only on the cover page.
JUDGING
1.
All papers will be judged by a committee of national experts on medical-legal
collaboration, appointed by the Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine
and Law, in a blinded review process. The decision of the judges is final.
2.
Prizes will not be awarded if the competition judges determine that no entry in
a particular year meets the appropriate standards.
3.
Papers will be judged according to the following criteria:
·
Responsiveness
to the competition question
·
Originality
and thoughtfulness
·
Quality
of analysis
·
Quality
of writing
DEADLINE AND
SUBMISSION
1.
All papers must be submitted in the proper format by midnight (EST) on January
2, 2014.
2.
Papers must be submitted electronically to marshall.kapp@med.fsu.edu.
3.
Direct questions to:
Mollie and Paul Hill Student Writing
Competition, Florida State University Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine and Law, 1115 W.
Call Street, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4300
4.
Winners will be announced on or before April 1, 2014.
