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The Wakley Prize 2006
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To suscribe to The Lancet podcast, paste this URL into your podcast aggregator: http://podcast.thelancet.com/ lancet.xml
Chronicle was probably the first major daily newspaper to start podcasting via an external website, in February, 2005.1 Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post was the first to use its own website and the first in Asia, having launched in April, 2005.2 Radio and television shows are increasingly available as podcasts, the UK comedian Ricky Gervais’ show regularly securing a staggering 300 000 downloads a show—and at just under £1 a download, a lucrative podcast at that. Student lectures, company meetings, tourist information—audio and podcasting is firmly established in the multimedia world. RSS (really simple syndication) transforms a static audio file into a dynamic podcast, delivered to a user’s computer (and thereby an iPod or other mp3 player) via iTunes or other podcast aggregators. Our hopes for The Lancet podcast are to offer readers concise synoptic information about journal content, and other news or discussion relevant to science, medicine, and public health, in an informative user-friendly format. Whether listening at home, in the gym, commuting to work,
in the office, or even in the operating theatre as one listener has suggested, the podcast should complement, and stimulate, the reading of our journals. The Lancet podcast will not be a dull rendition of article summaries from the journal, or a half-hour radio programme with music jingles and dedicated podcast producers. We will provide 10–15 min of audio each week, including at least one interview with the author of a key paper from the journal, and usually a closer look at one of our editorial topics. But we do want to hear from listeners, and with the RSS feed driving our podcast, we are doubtless about to increase our pool of listeners, which is currently around 2000 a week. You can give feedback on the podcast by email (podcast@lancet. com). Richard Lane The Lancet, London NW1 7BY, UK 1 2
San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com (accessed Aug 7, 2006). South China Morning Post. http://www.scmp.com (accessed Aug 7, 2006).
Wellcome Library, London
The Wakley Prize 2006
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“You are showing me respect by sitting here with me and listening to my story. I don’t need your pills. I need your attention. We have come to the end of this little bit of road that we travelled together. It is your being here, taking a moment in time to let me talk and give me your ear that goes well with you. With that you took some of the load off my shoulders and carried me a little farther down the road. Although you cannot bring my children back, I will be less tired when I arrive at the end.”
So ended the essay1 by Cornelus J G Sanders that won our annual essay-writing competition last year—the Wakley Prize. We now invite submissions for this year’s prize. Your essay can be on any clinical topic of international health importance. The winning author will receive £2000 and the essay will be published in the final issue of the year. Anyone working or training in a health-related field may apply. Your essay should be no more than 2000 words, and the deadline is Oct 15, 2006. The essays will be judged (without knowing the authors’ identities) by the editors of The Lancet. Style, subject, poignancy, readability, and international relevance are the criteria we use
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to select the winning essay. The previous winning essays2–11 provide, we believe, important insights into the practice of medicine that were, and remain, a pleasure to read. To enter, please send three anonymised double-spaced copies of your essay, together with a covering letter, to Dr Astrid James, The Lancet, 32 Jamestown Road, London NW1 7BY, UK, in an envelope marked “Wakley Prize”. Astrid James The Lancet, London NW1 7BY, UK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Sanders CJG. The road. Lancet 2005; 366: 2135–36. Loefler IJP. Microbes, chemotherapy, evolution, and folly. Lancet 1996; 348: 1703–04. Karlawish J. A personal choice. Lancet 1997; 350: 1833–34. Power L. Good times. Lancet 1998; 352: 1999–2000. Whitty CJM. Erasmus, syphilis, and the abuse of stigma. Lancet 1999; 354: 2147–48. Nauwelaers J. Eraritjaritjaka. Lancet 2000; 356: 2169–70. de Costa C. Flora’s legacy. Lancet 2001; 358: 2162–63. Parrish AG. Country gardens. Lancet 2002; 360: 2059–60. Kvalsvig A. Ask the elephant. Lancet 2003; 362: 2079–80. Miranda JJ. TB and you and me…personal reflections. Lancet 2003; 362: 2081–82. Tejani N. Maria. Lancet 2004; 364: 2223.
www.thelancet.com Vol 368 August 12, 2006
To suscribe to The Lancet podcast, paste this URL into your podcast aggregator: http://podcast.thelancet.com/ lancet.xml
Chronicle was probably the first major daily newspaper to start podcasting via an external website, in February, 2005.1 Hong Kong’s South China Morning Post was the first to use its own website and the first in Asia, having launched in April, 2005.2 Radio and television shows are increasingly available as podcasts, the UK comedian Ricky Gervais’ show regularly securing a staggering 300 000 downloads a show—and at just under £1 a download, a lucrative podcast at that. Student lectures, company meetings, tourist information—audio and podcasting is firmly established in the multimedia world. RSS (really simple syndication) transforms a static audio file into a dynamic podcast, delivered to a user’s computer (and thereby an iPod or other mp3 player) via iTunes or other podcast aggregators. Our hopes for The Lancet podcast are to offer readers concise synoptic information about journal content, and other news or discussion relevant to science, medicine, and public health, in an informative user-friendly format. Whether listening at home, in the gym, commuting to work,
in the office, or even in the operating theatre as one listener has suggested, the podcast should complement, and stimulate, the reading of our journals. The Lancet podcast will not be a dull rendition of article summaries from the journal, or a half-hour radio programme with music jingles and dedicated podcast producers. We will provide 10–15 min of audio each week, including at least one interview with the author of a key paper from the journal, and usually a closer look at one of our editorial topics. But we do want to hear from listeners, and with the RSS feed driving our podcast, we are doubtless about to increase our pool of listeners, which is currently around 2000 a week. You can give feedback on the podcast by email (podcast@lancet. com). Richard Lane The Lancet, London NW1 7BY, UK 1 2
San Francisco Chronicle. http://www.sfgate.com (accessed Aug 7, 2006). South China Morning Post. http://www.scmp.com (accessed Aug 7, 2006).
Wellcome Library, London
The Wakley Prize 2006
We do not have the rights to reproduce this image on the web.
“You are showing me respect by sitting here with me and listening to my story. I don’t need your pills. I need your attention. We have come to the end of this little bit of road that we travelled together. It is your being here, taking a moment in time to let me talk and give me your ear that goes well with you. With that you took some of the load off my shoulders and carried me a little farther down the road. Although you cannot bring my children back, I will be less tired when I arrive at the end.”
So ended the essay1 by Cornelus J G Sanders that won our annual essay-writing competition last year—the Wakley Prize. We now invite submissions for this year’s prize. Your essay can be on any clinical topic of international health importance. The winning author will receive £2000 and the essay will be published in the final issue of the year. Anyone working or training in a health-related field may apply. Your essay should be no more than 2000 words, and the deadline is Oct 15, 2006. The essays will be judged (without knowing the authors’ identities) by the editors of The Lancet. Style, subject, poignancy, readability, and international relevance are the criteria we use
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to select the winning essay. The previous winning essays2–11 provide, we believe, important insights into the practice of medicine that were, and remain, a pleasure to read. To enter, please send three anonymised double-spaced copies of your essay, together with a covering letter, to Dr Astrid James, The Lancet, 32 Jamestown Road, London NW1 7BY, UK, in an envelope marked “Wakley Prize”. Astrid James The Lancet, London NW1 7BY, UK 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
Sanders CJG. The road. Lancet 2005; 366: 2135–36. Loefler IJP. Microbes, chemotherapy, evolution, and folly. Lancet 1996; 348: 1703–04. Karlawish J. A personal choice. Lancet 1997; 350: 1833–34. Power L. Good times. Lancet 1998; 352: 1999–2000. Whitty CJM. Erasmus, syphilis, and the abuse of stigma. Lancet 1999; 354: 2147–48. Nauwelaers J. Eraritjaritjaka. Lancet 2000; 356: 2169–70. de Costa C. Flora’s legacy. Lancet 2001; 358: 2162–63. Parrish AG. Country gardens. Lancet 2002; 360: 2059–60. Kvalsvig A. Ask the elephant. Lancet 2003; 362: 2079–80. Miranda JJ. TB and you and me…personal reflections. Lancet 2003; 362: 2081–82. Tejani N. Maria. Lancet 2004; 364: 2223.
www.thelancet.com Vol 368 August 12, 2006