The Helen H. Glaser Student Essay Awards aim to encourage medical students to write creative narratives or scholarly essays relevant to medicine. Winning essays will be published in the Autumn issue of The Pharos. Authors must be enrolled in medical schools that have an active Alpha Omega Alpha Chapter or Association but need not be members of Alpha Omega Alpha. However, if the author is an Alpha Omega Alpha member, he/she must be an active member. The essay must not be offered to, or published by, any other journal or entered in any other contest prior to submission or during, the Alpha Omega Alpha selection process. Essays should not be fictional or written in the first person, but academic/scientific in theme. Unique references, numbered consecutively, should be limited to 20. Please visit the scholarshipÔÇÖs website for more information about the required format of the essay.