The awards are presented in honor of Eric W. Martin, PhD, 1971 AMWA president and author of AMWA's Code of Ethics.
Entry Form
Deadline: Post Marked b y Feb. 15, 2013
Submission Criteria
- Competition is open to material written by AMWA members only.
- Written material must have been published during calendar year 2012.
- The author's name must appear in the byline of the article. If the article appears in a publication that does not normally include bylines, the author must provide a signed statement by a supervisor or editor verifying authorship.
- An award will be given in each of 2 categories:
1. Article, print or online, intended for a public or health care consumer audience
2.Article, print or online, intended for a professional (medical) audience
- Articles designed for the awarding of continuing education credit are eligible if they are published in a peer-reviewed journal.
- The following are not eligible: brochures, self-published articles, material posted on an intranet and not otherwise publicly available, and entries in medical encyclopedias, wikis, and other reference works.
- Minimum length of all articles is 500 words.
- Entries will be limited to 1 per person per category.
- A separate entry form must accompany each entry.
- The entry fee of $30 US per entry must be included with the entry form.
- Five copies of each entry are required.
2012 Eric Martin Award recipient: (One winner for both categories).
Professional Audience Article
Joshua C. Tompkins, Money for Nothing? The Problem of the Board-Exam Coaching Industry
New England Journal of Medicine, July 2011.
Public or Health Care Consumer Audience Article
Joshua C. Tompkins, Confessions of a Middle-Aged Medical Student
The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 2011.
2011 Eric W. Martin Award recipients: (Two articles in the professional category were honored this year. )
Professional Audience Article
Bart J. Harvey, MD, PhD and Thomas A. Lang, MA, Hypothesis Testing, Study Power, and Sample Size
Chest,September 2010
Professional Audience Article
Denny Smith, Balm for Fires of War: Caring for Severe Combat Burns
Eye Net, October 2010
Public or Health Care Consumer Audience
Penny Allen, How to Talk so Your Doctor Will Listen
ICA Update, Spring 2010
The Eric Martin Awards are presented at AMWA's Annual Conference.
Previous winners:
Kirsten Dorans, Outpacing Cancer
Bridget Murray Law, A New Attitude: As time goes on, more doors open for HIV survivors
Laura Hale Brockway, The diversion dilemma
Patricia McAdams, Easing the Stigma of Disease
Marie Rosenthal, Identity Theft: When Senior Dogs Forget
Richard Laliberte, The New Alternative Medicine
Diane Shannon, MD, Helping Your Patients Decide: Making Informed Health Choices about Hormonal Contraception
Debra Bradley Ruder, Life Lessons
Florence M. Witte, MA with Lois Margaret Nora, MD, JD, and Terry Stratton, PhD, Stories from the Field: Students' Descriptions of Gender Discrimination and Sexual Harassment During Medical School
Leslie Goldman, MPH, Meet Two Sisters Who've Changed the Future of Fertility
Stephen E. To, MBA, Depression and the Drugs Used to Treat it
Kelli Miller Stacy, Therapeutic Mabs: Saving Lives and Making Billons
Kathryn Faguy, Health Literacy
Lonnie Christiansen, Capturing the Potential:What Stem Cell Science Offers Diabetes
Paul Couter, Keeping Pace with Genomics
Faith E. Reidenbach, Conceiving Solutions
Bryan P. Bechtel, Anthrax One Year Later
Barbara Delonnay, ACTOS-Confronting the Challenges and Concerns of Type 2 Diabetes
Pasquale Iannuzzelli, PhD, The Physiology of Wound Healing
Katie Rodgers, What Cigarettes do to American Business
Joy Noel Travalino, The Proper Use of Calcium Channel Blockers
Ragnar G. Levi, Pitfalls in Medicine
Linda L. Phillips, PhD, Understanding Pharmacoeconomics
Robert Lande, Controlling Sexually Transmitted Diseases
David J. Howell, PhD, Stroke: Etiology and Treatment
Mitchel L. Zoler, PhD, Prostate Enlargement:Say Yes to Drugs?
Ruth Winter, New Miracle Drugs
Barbara Stankus, Cytovene (Ganciclovir Sodium)
H. Michael Zal, DO, Panic Disorder: Is It Emotional or Physical
Joyce Mordenti, PhD, Man Versus Beast: Pharmacokinetic Scaling in Mammals
William A. Check, PhD, New Drugs and Drug Delivery Systems in the Year 2000
Gregory T. Freiherr, Monoclonal Antibodies Against Cancer: Clinical Application
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