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The Student Voice Prize is an annual, international essay competition that raises the profile of rare disease within the medical field, particularly with medical students, nurses and scientists who may have never come across considering rare disease as one field during their training.

Findacure and Medics4RareDiseases host the competition together and the winner is published inThe Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases!

In this episode Lucy from M4RD and Philippa from Findacure talk to one of last year's winners - Caitlyn Taylor, 5th year medical student at The University of Edinburgh. We discuss why she entered, her essay and a recent remake of a Rembrandt painting she posed for...

The Student Voice Prize - submit your essay before 17th November! https://www.findacure.org.uk/student-voice-prize/

Caitlyn's essay - https://www.findacure.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Caitlyn-Taylor-Essay.pdf

The Rembrandt painting - https://www.blog-lwinram.com/2020/09/23/edinburgh-seven/

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