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Every year a committee made up mostly of former debators and representatives of student government advises the Dean on a proposition and chosen faculty debators. Two faculty members each partner with a medical student to debate opposite sides of the chosen premise.

The subject for debate this year is 鈥淎 Women in Medicine Program is Not Needed in 2017鈥� and the debaters are: Drs. Mala Joneja and Romney Nitsch with medical students, Daniel Huang and Roya Abdmoulaie.

The debates run on a polite and rigorously timed schedule :

• 10 minutes for each member of the team, alternating back and forth --Yea and Nay--until all four participants have laid out their arguments.
• Then two minutes for summary from one member of each side.
• The Travill Debate Gavel is banged very loudly when the time limits are reached.
• No Power Point or technological aids.
• Humour is welcome. Formal attire and costumes have also been used to good effect.

Decision over the winners has been left to a variety of options, such as a panel of judges, a simple show of hands,  an 鈥渁pplause meter,鈥� or audience balloting through designated exit doors with result revealed later at the reception.  
The debators' preferences determine the method of voting.

• The identity of the winning team is recorded only in living memory. The honour is the debate itself.
• The event is followed by a reception to congratulate all the debaters.
• The plaque is engraved with the year, the proposition and the names of the debators.