Write about an ethical issue that you have encountered in a clinical setting
1. File type:
Microsoft Word
(.docx or .doc).
2.Formatting: 1” margins, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font.
3.Length: at least ½-1-page minimum (excluding poetry)
4.No portion of the submission may be plagiarized. We request that references, if
used, should follow MLA citation format.
5.Submissions must comply with HIPAA patient privacy regulations if you are
talking about someone in a medical setting other than yourself. We strongly
encourage contributors to seek permission before submitting patient narratives
and to fictionalize identifiable information to maintain patient confidentiality
and privacy. For more information, see
http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/security/laws-regulations/.
6.Suggested prompts:
●Illness Narrative: Write about a time you, or someone you care about,
suffered from a medical illness.
●Bioethics: Write about an ethical issue that you have encountered in a
●Social Justice: Write about a social injustice that you experienced in the
context of healthcare.
●Personal Statement: Why medicine? or
nursing/dentistry/pharmacy/etc.?
●Topic of your choice. Feel free to look at health related videos, articles,
essays, etc. if you cannot think of a personal experience that you’ve had.
●IMPORTANT:Make sure that if you do use or refer to outside sources
that you are NOT simply summarizing what you have read, watched, etc.
but that you are reflecting/analyzing it in your narrative piece.
7.
Possible genres: poetry, personal statements, expository writing, reflective
writing, analytical writing, nonfiction, fiction, scripts, letters. You can take
creative liberty here and format your writing to fit your narrative.
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