site.btaTrakia University Student Esil Ali Wins Medical Students Essay Competition
Trakia University student Esil Ali won first prize in the Alexander Darvodelski competition for medical students. The awarding ceremony was held on Sunday at the MaxiM Hall of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA).
The competition is organized by the Centre for the Protection of Rights in Healthcare, a non-governmental organization that protects the rights of doctors and patients in healthcare.
This year's theme was Medicine and the unwritten rules – lessons you learned that are not found in textbooks but are crucial to becoming a compassionate and effective doctor.
The winner, Esil Ali, secured a one-year scholarship of BGN 500 per month for the entire academic year.
The cash prize was presented to the winner by Stoycho Katsarov, chair of the civil organization. “The big prize in this competition is not the check, but the fact that you have made the effort and taken the time to participate. This is an investment that will pay off,” Katsarov told the contestants. He added that he had read all the participants' essays, in which the authors linked the unwritten rules to ethical and moral issues such as how important it is for a doctor to be not only a good professional but also a good person, to develop empathy for the patient and to be honest with them.
The jury of doctors and journalists, including BTA correspondent in the Republic of North Macedonia Marinela Velichkova and her colleagues Yolanda Popova and Miroslava Ivanova, as well as doctors Assoc. Prof. Irena Ivanova, Prof. Kosta Kostov, Marchela Koleva and Prof. Maya Vizeva picked the best five among 34 essays. All of them will be published on the Centre for the Protection of Rights in Healthcare website.
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