The final assignment was intended to act as the final draft of your short narrative draft submitted earlier this quarter. However, if you feel that there is another topic that you would like to write about or a pre-existing piece that you feel fits the criteria of the final assignment, than you are more than welcome to turn that piece in for your final submission. We urge students to submit a piece that they are proud of as it may appear in our undergraduate journal here on campus: Narrative Pre-Health Journal. You will be notified via email if your piece was accepted by the Journal and if any other edits need to be made before the Journal is published. 1. File type: Microsoft Word (.docx or .doc). 2. Formatting: 1” margins, double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font. 3. Length: 2-page minimum can be longer (excluding poetry) 4. No portion of the submission may be plagiarized. We request that references, if used, should follow MLA citation format. 5. Submissions must comply with HIPAA patient privacy regulations if you are talking about someone in a medical setting other than yourself. We strongly encourage contributors to seek permission before submitting patient narratives and to fictionalize identifiable information to maintain patient confidentiality and privacy. For more information, see http://www.hhs.gov/hipaa/for-professionals/security/laws-regulations/. 6. Suggested prompts: ● Illness Narrative: Write about a time you, or someone you care about, suffered from a medical illness. ● Bioethics: Write about an ethical issue that you have encountered in a clinical setting. ● Social Justice: Write about a social injustice that you experienced in the context of healthcare. ● Personal Statement: Why medicine? or nursing/dentistry/pharmacy/etc.? ● Topic of your choice. Feel free to look at health related videos, articles, essays, etc. if you cannot think of a personal experience that you’ve had. ● IMPORTANT: Make sure that if you do use or refer to outside sources that you are NOT simply summarizing what you have read, watched, etc. but that you are reflecting/analyzing it in your narrative piece. 7. Possible genres: poetry, personal statements, expository writing, reflective writing, analytical writing, nonfiction, fiction, scripts, letters. You can take creative liberty here and format your writing to fit your narrative.