Presentations | Pam and Rolando Del Maestro William Osler Medical Students' Essay Award

Please join us on Osler Day as the three finalists from the Pam and Rolando Del Maestro William Osler Medical Students' Essay Awards will deliver their presentations. The winner will be announced at the Osler Banquet.

The three finalists and their paper topics are: 

- Aditi Kantipuly, Surgery of the Soul: Lobotomy in Quebec

- Benjamin Mappin-Kasirer, “Une médecine sans médecins”?: Objectivity in the Paris Clinic

- Kacper Niburski, Imprinting Care: The Creation and Standardization of Medical Records

Congratulations Aditi, Benjamin and Kacper!

Faculty, students, and friends are all welcome to attend and show their support for this year’s finalists. Our special thanks to Pam and Rolando Del Maestro, the Medical Students’ Osler Society, and the Board of Curators of the Osler Library.

Medical students at McGill are invited to explore the historical, social, ethical, and humanistic side of their field thanks to an essay contest established by the Medical Students’ Osler Society and the Board of Curators of the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, and endowed through a generous gift by Pam and Rolando Del Maestro.

The essay contest gives undergraduate medical students the opportunity to explore any theme of interest to them in the history, social studies, sociology, ethics, and humanities of the health sciences. It also provides them with the chance to be mentored by an expert in their topic drawn from the Library’s Board of Curators or elsewhere to complete their project, and to use the rich resources of the Osler Library and other libraries at McGill.

For more information on the essay contest, click here.