Prizes in the South West Division

  • Trainees Prize

    This prize is awarded annually at the Spring Biannual Meetings and takes the form of a competition in which trainees will be invited to submit a written essay on a topic to be chosen by the Committee and relevant to the practice of psychiatrists in the South West.  The competition will be open to all trainees working in the South West Division at the time of submission who are either inceptors or members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the prize is £250. 

    2012 prize

    Prize winner 2011
    Dr Gareth Jarvis

    Prize winner 2010
    Dr David Brunskill

  • Poster Presentation Prize
     

    The Poster Prize will be awarded biannually on the occasion of the South West Division Meetings in the Spring and Autumn and takes the form of a competition.  The Poster Prize is open to all trainees and SAS/Specialist doctors who are members of the Royal College and who will be invited to submit a poster and an abstract.  The poster will be displayed at the Biannual Meeting and the abstract published in the Programme and Abstracts Booklet.  This should be on a piece of research either being undertaken, a new research project about to commence or an audit.  All entrants must be Trainees or SAS/Specialist Doctors, working within the South West Division, on the closing date and be either inceptors or members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.  Posters must be no larger than 750mm x 1000mm – portrait (should your poster not comply with this size then this will be taken into consideration by the judges when marking).  There will be a first prize of £250, a second prize of £100 and an ‘Innovation Poster Prize’ of £250.

    2012 prize

    Prize winners Autumn 2011
    First Prize - Dr Josie Lee
    Joint Second Prize - Dr Hannah Toogood
    Joint Second Prize - Dr Laurie Windsor
    Innovation Prize - Dr Claire Archdall

    Prize winners Spring 2011
    First Prize -  Dr Zainab Imam
    Second Prize -  Dr Amy Green
    Innovation Prize -  Dr Louise Molodynski

 

  • South West Undergraduate Medical Student Prize

    The South West Division Undergraduate Medical Student Prize will be awarded annually at a Biannual Meeting with a prize of £200.  This is a new prize and will take the form of a competition in which undergraduate medical students enrolled with the Peninsula and Bristol Medical Schools will be invited to submit a written essay on a topic to be chosen by the Committee.    

     

    Essay’s should be no more than 1500 words in length and will be published in the South West Division College Programme and Abstracts booklet of the relevant Biannual Meeting and possibly the Newsletter. 

     

    Only undergraduate medical students currently enrolled with the Peninsula Medical School and the Bristol Medical School at the time of submission will be eligible to enter.  Entries will be assessed by a panel of three judges – one of whom will be a member of the Executive Committee, two others to be selected by the Chair of the Scientific Organising Committee for the relevant biannual meeting. 

    Details for the 2012 South West Undergraduate Medical Student Prize will be available in the new year.

     

    2012 Prize

    Prize winner 2011
    Dr Nicholas Deakin

 

  • Innovation Prize

    This Prize is awarded annually at the Autumn Biannual Meetings.  It takes the form of a competition in which Senior Psychiatrists (individually or as a team) will be invited to submit an example of innovation or leadership across the whole spectrum of modern psychiatric practice.  It is open to all Consultants, Associate Specialists and Staff Grade doctors in the South West Division who are either fellows or members of the Royal College of Psychiatrists.  There is one prize of £500.  

    Prize winner - 2011
    Dr Rohit Shankar

    Prize winner - 2010
    Dr Clive North


     

  • The Lisa Thomas Poetry Prize

    This is an annual prize open to anyone connected with mental health.  They can have used or are using mental health services, support a friend or relative who uses or has used mental health services or works within the mental health sector.  The poem should be unpublished and have a mental health theme.  The prize willl be presented annually at the Spring Biannual Meeting.

    2012 Competition

    Prize winners for 2011

 

Details of all these prizes can be obtained from the South West Division Office.

 

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