As a part of the application process, the student is now required to have a professor review the essay and fill out a Faculty Sponsor form. Any interested professor may act as a Faculty Sponsor and a maximum of two entries from any one professor per contest year will be accepted. The essay may be developed from any point of view and can be in the form of a case study, a personal experience, or an analysis that is literary, philosophical, historical, biographical, sociological, theological, or psychological. Essays must be the original, unpublished work of the student and only one essay per student per contest year may be submitted. No faxed or e-mailed submissions will be accepted.
All decisions are final.
Winners will be notified in June 2000. No manuscripts will be returned. Essays may not be submitted elsewhere until the awards have been announced. These essays may not be published elsewhere without written permission from the Foundation. A nationwide study of the general well-being of 2,000 American surgeons conducted by the Department of Surgery of New York Methodist Hospital, Brooklyn.