2024 J.H. MacDermot writing prize winners
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| Ms Chloe Gao | Dr Rebecca Zhuang |
Ms Chloe Gao is the winner of the J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism (Independent), which recognizes a BC medical student’s significant achievement in writing an article without any physician coauthors, for her article “A call to action: Dermatology’s role in combatting colorism.”
Ms Gao is an MD/PhD student at the University of British Columbia. Through her experiences working in mental health systems research with the McMaster Health Forum, Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care, and St. Michael’s Hospital in Ontario, as well as the Sax Institute in Sydney, Australia, as a Queen Elizabeth Scholar, Ms Gao developed an interest in eliciting the experiences of diverse communities and populations and advocating for the integration of their perspectives into mental health service redesign. During her MD/PhD training, she has worked to improve programs, policies, and services in a way that reflects the values of youth seeking mental health and substance use care in BC and has also worked with the Strategic Training Initiative for the Prevention of Eating Disorders (STRIPED) at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Boston Children’s Hospital to create culturally safe eating disorders prevention strategies with and for diverse and young adults.
Dr Rebecca Zhuang is the winner of the J.H. MacDermot Prize for Excellence in Medical Journalism (Mentored), which recognizes a BC medical student’s significant achievement in medical writing as part of an author team that includes physicians, for her article “Point-of-care ultrasound in the diagnosis of venous thromboembolism in a rural setting.” Dr Zhuang is a graduate of UBC’s Vancouver Fraser Medical Program. She discovered her passion for point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) as a medical student under the mentorship of Dr Tracy Morton. This case report, written during her fourth year of medical school, was inspired by a particularly meaningful patient encounter. Now a first-year internal medicine resident, Dr Zhuang is dedicated to integrating POCUS into her future practice to improve patient care, especially in rural and underserved communities.
The BCMJ welcomes article submissions from BC medical students and offers these two writing prizes for the best submissions accepted for publication. The prizes distinguish between student articles written with and without physician coauthors. A winning article for each prize is selected from all eligible articles published in a calendar year. Each winner receives $750 and recognition in the BCMJ and at the Doctors of BC annual awards ceremony.
For more information about the prizes, visit https://bcmj.org/submit-article-award.
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