International
Congress 2012 - Foundation Doctor and Medical Student
Bursaries
Guidance on prizes can be obtained by clicking on the links
below. Please contact Sue Corfield for further
information.
The Trent Division holds an annual Medical Student Public
Speaking Competition. Each Medical School is invited to enter
a team of two people to speak for ten minutes on a pre-determined
topic. A prize of £200 and a certificate will be
awarded to the winning team. The runner up teams will receive £50
and certificates of participation. For further
information about this competition please contact Sue Corfield.
The Trent Division has recently established an 'Images of
Psychiatry' prize for the best photo taken by any member of
the Division, depicting mental health. Entries should be
submitted electronically with an accompanying paragraph of 150-200
words. All photos will be displayed on the Division's website
and in the Division's newsletter. The winning entry will be
displayed at the Trent Division Annual Meeting and a cheque
for £25 will be presented to the winner.
Trent Division Prize Regulations - as at 21 December 2011
2011 Prize Winners:
Research Presentation Prize - Dr Sandyha Gaur, 'Characteristics
of ethnic elders from Indian subcontinent referred with cognitive
problems to Geriatric Psychiatry Service in Leicester'
Poster Presentation Prize (CT1-3) - Dr Steven Dyer,
'Psychiatrists' attitudes to HIV screening of psychiatric
inpatients'
Poster Presentation Prize (ST4-6) - Dr Val Yeung, 'Dispelling
dyslexia with fatty acids - fishy findings or factual
evidence?'
FY Audit Prize - Dr Carmen Bilcea, 'Audit of Metabolic
Screening at Admission for Service users on 2 Adult psychiatric
wards'
Images of Psychiatry Photo Prize - Mr Jonathan Mills,
'Remembered'
Medical Student Elective Prize - Dr Stephen Barratt, 'Psychiatry
and Mental Health in Sri Lanka'
Public Speaking Prize - Sheffield Team: Daniel Harrison and
Isabelle Van Heeswijk
2010 Prize Winners:
Research Presentation Prize - Dr Karthik Thangavelu,
'Suicidality in bipolar affective disorder - 'The nature of
impulsivity and impulse control disorders in bipolar disorder
patients - a cross-sectional controlled study'
Poster Presentation Prize (CT1-3) - Dr Wasan Bajallan,
'Implementing the national dementia strategy locally - Descriptive
survey of new service provision'
Poster Presentation Prize (ST4-6) - Dr Eleanor Holliday, 'Staff
and patient voting patterns in a community drug clinic: Are we
"polls apart"?'
FY Audit Prize - Dr Ashah Anwar, 'Audit of physical assessment
and investigation of patients admitted to the Brandon Mental Health
Unit'
Images of Psychiatry Photo Prize - Mr Jonathan Mills, 'Different
Similarities'
Medical Student Elective Prize - Dr Helen Ord, 'Realistic
perspectives of adolescent mental health: What do adolescents know
and feel about mental illness, how can we influence their education
and what are the experiences and pathways into care of current
patients?
Public Speaking Prize - Sheffield Team: Daniel Harrison and
Isabelle Van Heeswijk
2009 Prize Winners:
Research Presentation Prize - Dr Lena Palaniyappan,
'Loss of insight in schizophrenia: All in the brain? An MRI
study of poor insight in chronic schizophrenia'
Poster Presentation Prize (CT1-3) - Dr Arshya
Vahabzadeh, 'Cardiovascular risk factors in a community
sample of patients with bipolar disorder treated with
Lithium'
Poster Presentation Prize (ST4-6) - Dr D D Shah,
'Audit of physical health monitoring for people with severe
mental illness, Rotherham Rehabilitation Recovery
Services'
FY Audit Prize - Dr Teizeem Dhanji, 'Re-Audit
of Lithium Monitoring in City East Adult Patients on the Lithium
Register'
Images of Psychiatry Photo Prize - Mr Ketan Jethwa,
'What Does it All Mean?'
Winning Entry
2008 Prize Winners:
Research Presentation Prize - Dr Adarsh Shetty, 'A descriptive
study of the mortality of psychiatric patients in Nottingham'
Poster Presentation Prize - Dr Karthik Thangavelu, 'Driving
among drug users - are we doing enough? Outcome of an audit
cycle on assessment of driving and related issues in drug
misusers'
2007 Prize Winners:
Travelling Fellowship - Dr Arun Chopra, ‘Population and Health:
facing up to the future’ – Max Planck Institute for Demographic
Research, Rostock, Germany
Research Presentation Prize - Dr Chris Tsoi, 'Early frontal
executive impairment as a predictor of subsequent behaviour
disturbance in dementia'
Poster Presentation Prize - Dr Pallavi Rajput, 'Survey of
General Practitioners in Leicestershire about working of new teams
in Psychiatry'
2006 Prize Winners:
Travelling Fellowship - Dr Debasis Das, Early Psychosis
Prevention and Intervention Centre, Melbourne, Australia
Research Presentation Prize - Dr Arun Chopra, 'An Illness and a
Metaphor: The coverage of schizophrenia in local and national
newspapers in the United Kingdom'
Other College/Faculty Prizes won by Trent Division
trainees:
Morris Markowe Public Education Prize 2011 - Dr Val Yeung
Margaret Slack Inaugural Fellowship for Academic Psychiatry 2011
- Dr Lena Palaniyappan
General Adult Faculty Research Prize 2010 - Dr Lena
Palaniyappan
General & Community Psychiatry Oral and Poster Prize 2008 -
Dr Adarsh Shetty
Alec Shapiro Oral Presentation Prize (Faculty of Learning
Disability Psychiatry 2008) - Dr John Devapriam
Alec Shapiro Poster Presentation Prize (Faculty of Learning
Disability Psychiatry 2008) - Dr Reza Kiani
Alec Shapiro Prize (Faculty of Learning Disability Psychiatry
2007) - Dr John Devapriam
Mohsen Naguib Prize (Faculty of Old Age
Psychiatry 2007) - Dr Soumya Hegdi
Laughlin Prize (MRCPsych Autumn 2007) - Dr Lena Palaniyappan
Laughlin Prize (MRCPsych Autumn 2006) - Dr Arun Chopra
Poster Presentation Prize (Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry 2006) -
Dr Anne Aboaja
If you are a member of the Trent Division and have recently won
a College prize please contact scorfield@rcpsych.ac.uk so
that your name can be added to the above list.