Now more than ever, we need students engaged in improving healthcare access, delivery, and quality. The Medical Care Blog is committed to elevating student voices on these and other public health topics. To encourage excellent student blog posts, we are sponsoring a blogging competition with the Medical Care Section of the American Public Health Association.
Any student currently enrolled in a degree-granting program is eligible to submit a blog post on a topic of their choice that would be relevant to readers of this blog or our sponsoring journal, Medical Care. We are open to submissions relevant to current or ongoing healthcare delivery and public health issues. We publish reactions to new developments in the health policy world, research synopses and analyses, interviews with practitioners and researchers, and commentaries from health services researchers, clinicians, public health practitioners, policymakers, and analysts.
Entries should be approximately 700-1200 words in length and submitted via our contact form by January 31st, 2021. Three outstanding submissions will be recognized with an “Outstanding Student Blog Post” award and a $250 prize. Entries will be judged by a panel of reviewers who belong to the Medical Care Section. All entries will be considered for publication on the blog, but the final decision to publish is at the editors’ discretion. Regardless of the decision to publish, authors retain the copyright for their material.
Interested in joining the competition? Check our FAQ page and then submit your post and a brief bio via our contact form. We hope to hear from you!
Editor’s note: The winners of the student blog competition have been announced! Check them out.
Cole Ettingoff