EXPERIENCE—
REFLECTION—
CONCLUSION

The Essays for the Ascona Balint Award give a deep impression of the students’ experiences, reflections and conclusions. And they show an insight into medical education in different countries.

Editions:

1. Margarethe Stubbe, Ernst R. Petzold, 20 Jahre Balint-Preis Ascona, Beziehungserlebnisse im Medizinstudium, Studentische Balint-Arbeit, Schattauer 1996

2. Ernst R. Petzold, Heide Otten, The Student, the Patient and the Illness, Ascona Balint Award Essays, xlibri 2010
3. Heide Otten, Ernst R. Petzold, Ascona Balint Award Essays 2015, The student, the patient and the illness, Pinguindruck GmbH, Berlin 2015
4. Heide Otten, Günther Bergmann, Donald E. Nease Jr., The Student, the Patient and the Illness, Ascona Balint Award Essays 2017, Psychosozialverlag, Giessen 2017 
5. Heide Otten, Günther Bergmann, Donald E. Nease Jr., The Student, the Patient and the Illness, Ascona Balint Award Essays 2019, Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 2019
6. Donald E. Nease Jr., Heide Otten, Günther Bergmann, The Student, the Patient and the Illness, Ascona Balint Award Essays 2022, Psychosozial-Verlag, Giessen 

Aidan Bannon

«I grow through conversation and interaction with my patients and believe passionately in a world of medicine where both the doctors and the patients are experts in their disease, learning from and guiding one another; a partnership.»

Éva Zsák

«I must claim that I firmly believe in the significance of interpersonal skills, sympathy and empathy regarding medical treatment.»

Isadora Francescantonio

«A glimmer in the eye or a lowering of the head can tell more about a person than their laboratory tests. The Science is important, but the ability to listen is an amazing ally.»

William Brierley

«Medicine is a mirror which forces you to examine yourself as you examine others.»