UMMS Peter G Jones Elective Essay Prize

The Peter G Jones Elective Essay Prize is named in honour of Peter Jones, inaugural editor of Chiron. Each year three Peter G Jones Elective Essay Prizes are offered to final year medical students for essays describing their elective experiences. Selected essays are published in Chiron.

2008 essays

In 2008, prizes were awarded to Jonathon Epstein for ‘Kissing it Better", Jennifer Jamieson for ‘Welcome to South Africa, my friend…’, Daniel Mason for ‘African Life’ and Cameron McPherson for ‘Maybe Oscar Wilde was right…’.

Selected essays submitted for the 2008 essay prizes:

• Kissing it Better by Jonathon Epstein
• Sex and the city by Angela Wilson
• Medical Tourism in Japan by Jon Chua
• Dimboola by Nicole Campbell
• African Life by Daniel Mason
• A lesson in caring by Jessie Teng Huey
• An unwritten taboo by Sharon Ong
• Maybe Oscar Wilde was right… by Cameron McPherson
• Maybe Someday by Yvonne Ng
• No Woman is an Island by Jane Carter
• Welcome to South Africa, my friend… by Jennifer Jamieson
• Musee de Beaux Artes by Brian Leung
• The Happiest place on earth by Jean Yhi Ong

2007 essays

In 2007, prizes were awarded to Sam Hardwick for ‘Just passing through never leaving’, Matthew Lin for ‘Trial by Fire’, Ingrid Laemmle-Ruff for ‘The tip of the iceberg’ and Arnab Ghosh for ‘Broadening your differentials’.

Selected essays submitted for the 2007 essay prizes:

• Trial by fire by Matthew Lin
• Homecoming by Lui Jiaming
• Just Passing through but never leaving by Sam Hardwick
• Person Sans Frontieres by Kate Robson
• Tanzania: The birthplace of Freddy Mercury…and Humankind by Megha Singh
• The Tip of the Iceberg by Ingrid Laemmle-Ruff
• A Charter of children’s rights in hospital by Fairlie Wayne
• Broadening your differentials by Arnab Ghosh
• Lessons from a smaller island by David Deelen
• Medicine without speaking by Victoria Ling
• Why politicians should be seen and not heard - A medical elective in small town India by Rana Dhillon

2006 essays

In 2006, prizes were awarded to Simon Liubinas for ‘Palliative care and the wheel of Samsara’, Maithri Goonetilleke for ‘Tales of an aspiring bridge builder’ and to Joshua Osowicki for ‘Hot town, summer in the city’.

Selected essays submitted for the 2006 essay prizes:

• Palliative care and the wheel of Samsara by Simon Liubinas
• Tales of an aspiring bridge builder by Maithri Goonetilleke
• Hot town, summer in the city by Joshua Osowicki
• Doctor a.k.a. med. student by Anne Yang
• Chinese whispers by Tan Mei Lin
• La Vida Loca or Lost in Translation by PJ Dalziel

2005 essays

In 2005, prizes were awarded to Nicholas Potter for ‘Hospital Rwanda’, Emma Boddy for ‘When you hear hooves’ and Molly Williams for ‘Mmmm…Checklisty’.

Selected essays submitted for the 2005 essay prizes:

• Hospital Rwanda by Nicholas Potter
• When you hear hooves by Emma Boddy
• Mmmm…Checklisty by Molly Williams
• Through the eyes of a child by Tricia Prentice
• The indispensable two by Mpho G Selemogo
• Fahrenheit minus 30 by Om Narayan
• Remote Indigenous health by Emma Goeman
• Gone troppo by Julie Teague.

For more information about the UMMS Peter G Jones elective essay prize contact Linda Richardson at: lric@unimelb.edu.au