Prompt:

“What I carried with me.”

Write about something you carried—physically, emotionally, or symbolically—through your training or clinical experience. This could be a lesson, an object, a habit, a burden, a phrase, or a memory that has stayed with you across time, institutions, or patient encounters.

Consider:

• What did you carry into a room?

• What followed you out of one?

• How has what you carry shaped your identity as a clinician—or as a person?

Submission Guidelines:

• All specialties and levels of training are welcome (please feel free to share, if applicable)

• Formatting / Guidelines -

• Please include: name (can also be submitted anonymously, if preferred - please delineate this with submission), contact information, any contextual information you would like considered, brief biography written in 3rd-person, and headshot

• MLA formatting for references. In-line citations will also be considered for advocacy/opinion pieces

• 1700 words or less.

• HIPAA - please help us respect patient privacy by not revealing protected health information in your work.

• Original work only - please send work that has not been submitted/published elsewhere

• Please choose a category for submission: Fiction, Non-fiction, Multimedia/Art, Advocacy, Poetry.

Selected pieces will be shared at upcoming meetings and considered for publication in our digital anthology (www.onthehillnm.org). 

Deadline: 7/1/2025, 5p PST

Questions/Submit to: medresnm@ohsu.edu