Student Award in Clinical Ethics Recipient is Mr. Tam Tran

Student Award in Clinical Ethics Recipient is Mr. Tam Tran

ASCO and the Ethics Educators SIG are pleased to announce Tam Tran as the winner of the 2021 Student Award in Clinical Ethics. This annual national award provides the winner with a cash award of $1,000 and an acrylic engraved plaque.

This annual national award, sponsored by Alcon, is available to optometry students during any point of their professional program at an ASCO-affiliated school or college of optometry in the U.S., Puerto Rico and Canada. The application consists of an essay describing any one of the following scenarios:

1. A patient based case-study that the student encountered as part of their clinical learning experience.
2. A research based case scenario that the student has encountered during their clinical or didactic learning experience.
3. A professional ethics based scenario that the student has encountered during their clinical or didactic learning.

Tran is a student at the Illinois College of Optometry and is expected to graduate with his Doctor of Optometry degree this year. His winning essay, The Ethical Muddle of Sick Notes: Can We Do Better? will also be featured in an upcoming issue of ASCO’s Journal Optometric Education.