The history bureau recommends that contestants seek out faculty members with publishing experience to advise them on their essays, Dr Betz notes.
He adds that even though contestants will be writing about just one core principle, they should narrow their topic within that principle. “Your odds of writing a truly scholarly work in 3000 words will be far greater if you concentrate on a few related aspects of a principle than if you try to tackle every aspect of it,” he advises.
“As contestants develop their essays, they should keep in mind the preamble to the bureau's core principles,” Dr Czar necki proposes. “Especially worth remembering are the following passages: `Students will come to appreciate the history of the osteopathic medical profession from understanding the social, economic, cultural, political, and medical forces and contexts that have shaped the profession's development.... It is not dry facts that students should be learning. Rather, they need to understand dynamic historical processes and grasp the living, breathing, evolving phenomenon that is osteopathic medicine.'”