Trakia University student Esil Ali won first prize in the Alexander Darvodelski competition for medical students. The awarding ceremony was held on Sunday at the MaxiM Hall of the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA).
The competition is organized by the Centre for the Protection of Rights in Healthcare, a non-governmental organization that protects the rights of doctors and patients in healthcare.
This year’s theme was Medicine and the unwritten rules – lessons you learned that are not found in textbooks but are crucial to becoming a compassionate and effective doctor.
The winner, Esil Ali, secured a one-year scholarship of BGN 500 per month for the entire academic year.
The cash prize was presented to the winner by Stoycho Katsarov, chair of the civil organization. “The big prize in this competition is not the check, but the fact that you have made the effort and taken the time to participate. This is an investment that will pay off,” Katsarov told the contestants. He added that he had read all the participants’ essays, in which the authors linked the unwritten rules to ethical and moral issues such as how important it is for a doctor to be not only a good professional but also a good person, to develop empathy for the patient and to be honest with them.
The jury of doctors and journalists, including BTA correspondent in the Republic of North Macedonia Marinela Velichkova and her colleagues Yolanda Popova and Miroslava Ivanova, as well as doctors Assoc. Prof. Irena Ivanova, Prof. Kosta Kostov, Marchela Koleva and Prof. Maya Vizeva picked the best five among 34 essays. All of them will be published on the Centre for the Protection of Rights in Healthcare website. Trakia University Student Esil Ali Wins Medical Students Essay Competition THE NEWS FROM BULGARIA – NEWS AGENCY 2009-2025 2025-11-02 14:14:34 Latest news World news Country news Most important news latest news most important latest of the day Justice Petar Nizamov Feathers Petar Nizamov- Feathers Justice bg iustitia.bg iustitia iusticia usticia investigation Burgas Bulgaria news news of the last hour news of the day news of today Bulgaria news The news from Bulgaria blitz news top news most important most commented latest news Boyko Borisov news weather coronavirus news news weather facebook youtube facebook instagram news today news of the last minutes news today today news news bg news leading news hot news bg news site for news all news news bg news of the last hour latest latest news bg news of today news today news today news of the last hour latest news today news bg news news 24 hours news vesti bg novini news world bird bg bivol bg bivol trud bg novini latest news today novinite bg news hello bulgaria political party coat of arms delyan peevski scandalous Bulgarian National Television Free Europe Television scandal exclusive live tv live right now tv tv online tv program bg live now tv news online tv online live court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas court Burgas district court Burgas district court Burgas appellate court Burgas prosecutor Burgas prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Burgas district prosecutor’s office Prosecutor General Ivan Geshev Prosecutor Geshev Tsatsarov Ministry of Internal Affairs Burgas ODMR Burgas ODPR Burgas police Burgas district police Burgas prosecutor Tsatsarov SGS cases Varna court chairman of the SGS court decisions on civil cases decisions on cases Plovdiv court decision of the court decisions cases Varna court criminal cases district district court decisions work in the court SGS chairman of the SGS judges Sofia court post judges Plovdiv court Plovdiv judges Plovdiv Supreme Court Inspectorate Supreme Court Supreme Judicial Council lawyer lawyer criminal cases lawyer civil cases lawyer marriage cases lawyer administrative criminal law criminal process civil law civil process administrative law constitutional law