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PAEA Announces the 2007-08 Student Writing Competition

JAAPA to Sponsor Competition for 7th Consecutive Year

Faculty Letter | Competition Rules and Guidelines
Suggestions to Help Students Get Started

PAEA announces the 2007–08 cycle of the Student Writing Competition, which provides an opportunity for PA students to submit original entries featuring their medical writing skills. To memorialize early contributions in support of student writing made by J. Peter Nyquist, the student taking first place continues to be designated the Nyquist Award winner.

The Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants (JAAPA), the sponsor of the competition for the seventh consecutive year, will award monetary prizes to three students and cover their travel expenses to attend AAPA’s 36th Annual PA Conference in San Antonio, Texas. Students whose entries are selected will have the opportunity to present them to peers and faculty as part of the SAAAPA Student Professional Workshops during the Annual PA Conference, May 24–29.

Robert Hadley, PhD, PA-C, faculty member at the University of Kentucky PA Program, is chair of the PAEA Research Institute's Student Research Affairs subcommittee that administers the competition. PAEA staff will assume responsibility for receiving student entries and randomly assigning reviewers. Student papers that meet the eligibility criteria will be reviewed in a blinded process by at least two and possibly three volunteer faculty members from programs across the country. (Faculty will not be assigned to review papers authored by students in their own programs.) Once the field is narrowed to a group of finalists, members of the subcommittee will choose the top three entries.

All submissions, including any attachments, must be Word documents and submitted electronically. Each student entry requires an accompanying endorsement from the student’s program director. Directors are asked to e-mail endorsements from their own e-mail accounts to verify that each student entry from their programs is the student’s original work and that the entrant authored the paper while he or she was a student in the PA program. Submissions will not be considered complete until the program director’s endorsement has been received at PAEA headquarters. All student entries, as well as program directors’ endorsements, must be received by February 15, 2008.

It is requested that faculty read the Faculty Letter and forward Competition Rules and Guidelines and Suggestions to Help Students Get Started to all their students. Student entries and program directors' endorsements should be submitted to
Eileen Evans, manager, member communications, PAEA, at
eevans@PAEAonline.org.

Reviewers Invited
The Research Institute is seeking faculty reviewers for the student submissions in February. Faculty who wish to volunteer should submit their names, positions and PA program, e-mail addresses, and telephone numbers to Eileen. Questions about the competition may be addressed to Robert Hadley at hadleyr@uky.edu or to PAEA staff at (703) 548-5548, ext. 307.

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