The Louis E. Goodman, M.D. Award was created at Johns Hopkins University to foster the sensitivity of prospective doctors to ideas and matters beyond the realm of medicine. Specifically, it was designed to encourage applicants to pursue their interests in the arts and letters for personal enrichment. This was and always will be the award's primary objective, because Dr. Goodman believed such endeavors would help make more well-rounded and compassionate physicians. Service to the community was not part of the original intent of the award and therefore is not a requirement for the application. If, on the other hand, service is fundamental to a candidate's interest or is a consequence of a proposal, the committee will give such applications full consideration. Though Dr. Goodman was a surgeon, his first love was internal medicine because he liked the intellectual challenges of the latter specialty. Despite this preference, however, he elected a surgical residency for a variety of reasons too complicated to go into here. Eventually he developed an interest in oncology and began treating patients in that subspecialty in addition to continuing his general surgery practice. As his expertise in oncology developed he found himself practicing as much medicine (chemotherapies) as surgery in those early day before oncology was considered a desirable specialty. (In the 1950’s, when he ran the tumor clinic at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore, the “success” rate was so poor very few physicians wanted to specialize in oncology). Dr. Goodman died of cancer in 1987. - Retracing the medieval pilgrimage route from southern France to Santiago de Compostella in NW Spain in order to study the church architecture - Participating in an archeological dig in Egypt - Studying in Ireland to prepare a paper on the writer O'Casey - Teaching photography to AIDS patients in Baltimore - Teaching painting at a nursing home - Working with children suffering from chronic diseases to help them learn to write about their experiences CURRENT JUNIORS (Class of 2010) are eligible to apply. Please complete the following application form and submit it to the Office of Pre-Professional Programs & Advising. THE APPLICATION DEADLINE IS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 2009 AT 4:30 PM DOWNLOAD THE GOODMAN AWARD APPLICATION | 
