Professionals Contest: Medical expertise on H1N1 - What we've learned
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Welcome to the Helium Medical Professionals Contest!
We’ve created a contest just for nurses and doctors at Helium. It will tap their unique knowledge and experience.
How the Helium Medical Professionals Contest works:
- Each contest consists of a three-week writing period. Please submit magazine-style articles that are NOT in the first person point of view, unless the title specifically asks for it.
- Participants must have one of these badges at Helium: Certified: Medical Doctor, Certified: Physician Assistant, Certified: Registered Nurse, Certified: Licensed Practical Nurse, Certified: Medical Paraprofessional, Certified: Medical Researcher, Certified: Pharmacist, Certified: Fitness Specialist, Certified: Sports Trainer, Certified: Paramedic, Certified: Dental Hygienist, Certified: Dental Assistant, Certified: Dentist, Certified: Psychiatrist, Certified: Nurse Practitioner, Certified: Pharmacy Technician, Certified: Medical Technologist, Certified: Dietician/Nutritionist, Certified: Radiologist, Certified: Radiologist Technician, Certified: Physical Therapist, Certified: Speech Pathologist and Certified: Specialized Nurse.
- If you’re a member and a doctor or nurse and want to participate in this contest, but don’t have one of our medical professional badges, email your About Me page URL and a state licensing website link with information needed to verify your credentials to experts@helium.com.
- Submission dates: Wednesday, November 4, at 16:00 GMT to Tuesday, November 17, at 23:59 GMT. (Get your current GMT time: Type in “current time gmt” into a Google search window.)
- Awaiting calculation dates: After the submission period, we provide one week for article rating to reach community consensus. All titles in the contest are closed to further submissions and Leapfrogs during this time. (Your article’s rank may fluctuate wildly or hardly move.)
- Winners: Winners are typically announced on Wednesday, the week after the submission period ends and prizes credited by week’s end. Read more about winner selection and contest points on the Contest Rules page.
- Completed contest: Once the contest is closed and the results announced, the titles to that contest will reopen for general writing submissions.
Winners earn:
| 1 | 1st Prize at $60 | |
| 1 | 2nd Prize at $40 | |
| 1 | 3rd Prize at $30 |
How to earn points:
- 5 points - over 95th percentile
- 4 points - over 85th percentile
- 3 points - over 75th percentile
- 2 points - over 65th percentile
- 1 points - over 55th percentile
- 0 points - over 45th percentile
- -1 points - over 35th percentile
- -2 points - over 25th percentile
- -3 points - over 15th percentile
- -4 points - over 5th percentile
- -5 points - 0- 5th percentile
Be sure to read a copy of Helium’s Writing Standards before you enter the contest.
This week's contest titles:
- The H1N1 recap: Advice on how to share infection control strategies without inciting panic
- The H1N1 recap: An inside look at the art and science of creating an H1N1 vaccine
- The H1N1 recap: An inside look at the science and art of predicting H1N1 infection spread
- The H1N1 recap: Assessing methods used in hospitals to isolate flu patients for infection control
- The H1N1 recap: Assessing the US CDC's (Center for Disease Control) response to H1N1
- The H1N1 recap: Assessing WHO's (World Health Org) response to H1N1
- The H1N1 recap: Counting the costs of H1N1 across the globe - regional comparisons of infection impact
- The H1N1 recap: How to leverage media effectively for infection control
- The H1N1 recap: How to use government more effectively for infection control
- The H1N1 recap: Medical scientists explain how flu "pandemic" explains scope but not impact of H1N1 infection
- The H1N1 recap: Problems faced by medical scientists developing an H1N1 vaccine
- The H1N1 recap: Problems faced with distributing new H1N1 vaccines to aid in infection control
- The H1N1 recap: Theories on how H1N1 might mutate and return over time
- The H1N1 recap: Understanding the medical science behind infection control measures
- The H1N1 recap: What geneticists have learned about H1N1 sequencing to assist in infection control
Leaderboard
11/23/2009 09:30:05 AM
Ratings determine winners up to awards deadline.- 1st Pandula Siribaddana (35)
- 2nd EMoore (19)
- 3rd W. Diane Van Zwol (15)
In the running
- 4) Olivia Bredbenner (9)
- 5) Stacy Kess (5)
- 6) C. Lyn Walter
