Call for Abstracts - NI
Presentation Day 2012
Preliminary proposals for all prizes
and awards should be submitted by Friday 29 June with final
entries by Friday 31 August 2012
Northern Ireland Reseach and Audit Prizes
The Royal College of Psychiatrists in Northern
Ireland has established Research and Audit Prizes with the aim of
promoting high standards of research, audit and presentation skills
in the field of psychiatry.
Prizes: £200, and the
award of a silver salver to be held for one year.
Frequency: Annually
Eligible: Trainees,
Junior Consultants, SAS Doctors and Affiliates within 10 years of
commencement of training in psychiatry and who are working in
Northern Ireland are eligible to apply. The judging panel may
make provision for special circumstances in individual cases.
Their decision will be final and they will not enter into
correspondence or communication on eligibility criteria
Regulations:
I. Candidates will
be judged on the originality of the project, the soundness and
appropriateness of their methodology and the adequacy of their data
and its interpretation, along with the clarity of their
presentation, timekeeping and presentation quality of audio-visual
aids.
II.
Entries in their abstract form will be examined by a nominated
senior academic from the Division and, in the exercise of his/her
discretion, he/she will not enter into correspondence or
communications. Judges will be drawn from senior members of
the Division.
Closing date:
Preliminary proposals should submitted by the fourth Friday
in June with final entries submitted by the fourth
Friday in August each year.
Submissions to:
Northern Ireland Division
The Royal College of Psychiatrists
Clifton House, 2 North Queen Street,
BELFAST
BT15 1EQ
Nora McNairney +44 (0) 28 9027 8793
Email: nmcnairney@nirelanddiv.rcpsych.ac.uk
The Dr Thomas Freeman Psychotherapy Award - Currently
under review
The Royal College of Psychiatrists in
Northern Ireland has sought to recognise Dr Freeman’s contribution
of Psychiatry by establishing this award in his memory. Dr
Freeman was a Founding Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists
and an Honorary Member of the British Psychoanalytical
Society. He practised as a Consultant General Adult
Psychiatrist in NHS psychiatric hospitals both in Scotland and N.
Ireland. Throughout his career he wrote prodigiously of his
vast clinical experience, producing hundreds of articles and many
books, the last of which was completed days before his death in
2002. He developed an international reputation particularly
in the field of the psychoses and founded a psychoanalytic training
organisation in N. Ireland (The Northern Ireland Association for
the Study of Psychoanalysis – NIASP).
Categories:
1. For ST4-6+ and anyone who is within two years of taking up a
career grade post in Northern Ireland and began a long case or
article for publication as a trainee.
2. For CT1-3 trainees.
Prize: The award for each of
the two categories will be £150, plus award of a
medal. (NB: NIASP provide the financial award and
RCPsych in NI, finance the medals)
Frequency: Annual
Eligible: Trainees
working in psychiatry in Northern Ireland and slos anyone who is
within two years of taking up a career grade post in Northern
Ireland and who commenced a long case article for publicaiton as a
trainee.
Regulations:
I. The award is for
a long case or paper prepared with a view to publication, relevant
to psychotherapy, whether psychodynamic, systemic, cognitive,
behavioural, integrative therapies or other, as practiced in the
field of psychiatry.
II. The
long case or paper should be approximately 2500 – 3500 in
length.
III. Entries will be
judged by three consultant psychiatrists from Northern Ireland who
specialist in or who have a special interest in
psychotherapy.
IV. The
Psychotherapy Faculty for Northern Ireland reserves the right not
to award the prize if the entries are not adjudged to be of
sufficiently high standard.
Closing date:
Preliminary proposals should submitted by the fourth Friday
in June with final entries submitted by the fourth
Friday in August each year.
Submissions to:
Chair of the Psychotherapy Faculty
The Royal College of Psychiatrists in Northern
Ireland
Clifton House, 2 North Queen Street,
BELFAST
BT15 1EQ
Nora McNairney +44 (0) 28 9027 8793
Email: nmcnairney@nirelanddiv.rcpsych.ac.uk