Balint Society Prize Essay 2012
The Council of the Balint Society will award a prize of £500 for the best essay on:
The Balint Group and the Doctor-patient Relationship.
Essays should be based on the writer’s personal experience, written especially for this prize, and should not have been submitted or published previously.
Essays should be typed on one side only, with three copies, preferably on A4 size paper, with double spacing, and with margins of at least 25mm.
Length of essay is not critical.
Entry is open to all, except for members of the Balint Society Council.
Where clinical histories are included, the identity of the patients should be suitably concealed, All references should conform to the usual practice in medical journals.
Essays should be signed with a “nom de plume”, and should be accompanied by a sealed envelope containing the writer’s identity. Please give a return address so entries can be acknowledged. Do keep an electronic copy as this will be requested for publication from the winner.
The judges will consist of the Balint Society Council and their decision is final. The entries will be considered for publication in the Journal of the Balint Society.
The prizewinner will be announced at the Annual Dinner.
Entries must be received by 1 May 2012 and sent to: Dr D Watt, Tollgate Medical Centre, 220 Tollgate Rd, London E6 5JS