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Prizes
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Poster Prize in
Addictions Psychiatry for Trainees
The Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry has
established a prize for psychiatric trainees, staff grades and
associate specialist doctors who present a poster at the Faculty’s
Annual Meeting. The Faculty wishes to encourage interest in
research in Addictions.
Prize: £300 + bursary
to attend Annual Meeting, covering both Meeting registration fee
and travel expenses.
Shortlisted candidates are offered a bursary
to attend the Annual Meeting, which covers the Meeting’s
registration fee, but not travel expenses.
Eligible: All
psychiatric trainees (CT1-ST6 and equivalent) and staff grades and
associate specialist psychiatrists.
Regulations:
- This prize will be awarded on the basis of
originality and the relevance of addictions in the poster
presentation.
- Information on submitting posters for
presentation at the Annual Meeting. Please note that
posters are NOT automatically entered for the prize. If you are
submitting a poster and want to be considered for the prize, please
make it clear in your accompanying message.
- The prizewinner will be expected to provide a
summary article, and the full text of their poster presentation for
inclusion on the Faculty webpages.
- A maximum of five candidates will be
shortlisted. Shortlisted candidates should register and pay
the registration fee, which will then be refunded.
- The judging panel will consist of the Chair
and two other members of the Executive Committee of the
Faculty.
Closing
date: 24 February
2012
Announcement of shortlisted
candidates: 6 March 2012
Announcement of prize winner
and presentation of prize: Faculty
Annual Meeting (3-4 May 2012)
Submissions: Email or tel: 020 7235
2351 ext 6142
Winning Posters from Previous
Years
The Medical Student Essay Prize in Addictions
Psychiatry
Prize: £200
Eligible: 4th and
5th year medical students in the United Kingdom and
Ireland.
Regulations:
- Eligible students are invited to submit an
original unpublished essay of up to 5,000 words on an aspect of
Addictions Psychiatry of their choice. The essay should be
illustrated by a clinical example of any aspect of medical and
psychiatric practice relevant to substance misuse, e.g. General
Practice, Accident and Emergency, General Medicine and Public
Health.
- The essay should demonstrate an understanding
of issues relating to addictions with relevant links to other
medical specialties.
- The essay should be supported by a review of
relevant literature and should be the candidate’s own
work.
- The prize will be judged by the Chair and two
other members of the Executive of the Faculty of Addictions
Psychiatry.
Closing date: 2 March
2012
Announcment of prize winner:
2 April 2012
Presentation of prize:
Faculty Annual Meeting (3-4 May 2012)
Submissions: Email Lauren
Wright (Faculty Manager) 0207 235 2351 Ext 6284
Lecture Prize in Addictions
Psychiatry for Trainees
The Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry offers an
opportunity for psychiatric trainees, and staff grades and
associate specialist psychiatrists, to present a lecture to the
Faculty’s Annual Meeting.
Prize: £300
Eligible: All
psychiatric trainees (CT1-ST6 and equivalent), and staff grades and
associate specialist psychiatrists.
Regulations:
- Applicants are invited to submit a current
concise curriculum vitae and a 400 word abstract of the paper they
wish to present. The prize will be awarded on the basis of
originality and the relevance of addictions in the
abstract. Shortlisted applicants will be invited for a
telephone interview, and the winner offered support and mentoring
by the judging panel in developing their lecture.
- Applications will be judged by the Chair and
two other members of the Executive of the Faculty of Addictions
Psychiatry.
Closing date: 24
February 2012
Announcement of successful
candidate: 6 March 2012
Presentation of lecture:
Faculty Annual Meeting (3-4 May 2012)
Submissions: Email Lauren Wright (Faculty
Manager) 0207 235 2351 Ext 6284
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