ACHE Seeks Submissions for Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management
The American College of Healthcare Executives is seeking submissions to the annual Richard J. Stull Student Essay Competition in Healthcare Management, an annual competition designed to stimulate and demonstrate the ability of future healthcare executives to identify and describe important issues and developments in their chosen profession.
ACHE invites eligible students to submit high-quality essays with a focus on health management topics such as strategic planning and policy; accountability of and/or relationships among board, medical staff, and executive management; financial management; human resources management; systems management; plant and facility management; comprehensive systems of services; quality assessment and assurance; professional, public, community, or interorganizational relations; governmental relations or regulation; marketing; education; research; law; and ethics.
The competition is open to students currently enrolled in either a graduate or undergraduate health administration program that is a participant in the ACHE Higher Education Network. To be eligible, entrants must be either an ACHE Student Associate or an active member of ACHE.
Essays must be the product of a single individual. Joint efforts will not be considered. In addition, essays must not have been published previously.
The graduate and undergraduate students whose essays are selected as the winning entries will each receive $3,000, while their programs will receive $1,000. The second- and third-place graduate and undergraduate finalists will receive $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. Each student who has his/her essay submitted to ACHE will receive a certificate and keepsake in recognition of being selected to represent his/her program. In addition, all six finalists will be invited to attend the Congress on Healthcare Leadership, March 16-19, 2015, in Chicago, with transportation and accommodations expenses for two nights paid by ACHE. Awards will be presented at the Leon I. Gintzig Commemorative Lecture and Luncheon.
The two first-place entries will be published in future issues of the Journal of Healthcare Management.
For complete competition guidelines and submission instructions, see the ACHE website.
Link to Complete RFP
