Essay competition 2006: 16-18-year-olds category
On this page you can see the results of the GMC's essay competition in the 16-18-year-old category and read the winning entries.
The essay title entrants were set was: What will the role of doctors be in 2050?
Results
The winner and runners-up are below. Click on the link to view information and read the essay or scroll down to read about all the winning entries.
Winner: Myura Nagendran
This essay is based on the following ideas
- Increased ethical issues
- Philosophy of prevention rather than cure: ‘educare'
- Global centralisation of all medical information (CMID)
- Evolution of super-specialisation
- Radical changes in surgical training and operations
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Runner-up: Rosanne Ching
This essay is based on the following ideas
- The prevention and early diagnosis of diseases' campaign is carried out among the world population.
- Doctors play a more important role in the diseases preventive defence with a combination of traditional
- herbalism and advanced modern technology other than diagnosing and treating illnesses and infections.
- To heal the sick
- To relieve suffering
- Doctors as the communicators
- Doctors as the population controllers.
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Runner-up: Alexa Dean
This essay is based on the following ideas
- This is a diary entry for a Senior House Officer working in an East London hospital.
- We see a growing relationship between illness and the 21st century lifestyle.
- The increasing weight that is put on preventative medicine is also highlighted.
- There is a clear change in the relationship between doctors and nurses.
- The doctor continues to find her work both challenging and rewarding
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Runner-up: Tiffany Kemp
In this essay the following ideas are discussed
- The changing status of hospitals in the community
- Steps to prevent common complaints humans suffer with at present
- New health problems caused by development in technology
- New methods of treating patients
- Whether the fundamental role of doctors will have changed by 2050.
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Runner-up: William Phung
This essay is based on the following ideas
- Will robots replace doctors, or will they aid them?
- Will supermarkets have machines that can replace the GP?
- How will nanotechnology affect doctors and the way they treat patients?
- How will changes and advances in technology that affect ordinary people affect doctors? Will doctors need
extra training to learn how to use this equipment?
- Will the ethics of medicine have changed with the discovery of new methods of treatment?
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Runner-up: Sophia Stephanides
This essay is based on the following ideas
- Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
- Advances in technology with respect to medicine
- Changing needs of patients and their effect on doctors.
- Global issues and the role of doctors in controlling pandemics
- Human Genome project and genetic research
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