Information on prizes and bursaries
which psychiatric trainees can apply for will be advertised here.
Please contact the PTC if there is something that
you feel should be advertised here.
Academic Faculty's The Margaret Slack Travelling
Fellowship
This travelling fellowship is awarded from funds bequeathed by
Margaret Mary Slack. The travelling fellowship is intended to
encourage senior psychiatric trainees to broaden their academic
knowledge and experience in a centre of excellence either in the UK
or abroad. Though not essential, candidates may wish to
pursue a research study. Visits are expected to be no longer
than two to four weeks.
Prize: £2000
Frequency: Annual
Eligible: Applicants must hold the MRCPsych and be on
an approved higher training scheme
Where presented: International Congress, June/July each
year
Regulations:
I. Applicants must work in the
UK
II. Applicants should submit an
application letter including the following - by email:
- The names of two referees
- A detailed proposal as to how the time abroad will be
spent
- Information about the host centre, with confirmation
that the proposal is acceptable to them
- An identified supervisor at the host centre
- Confirmation from the employing authority that study
leave will be granted if the applicant is successful
III. A panel of psychiatry
assessors nominated by the Academic Faculty Chair will award the
fellowship
IV. The successful candidate will be
expected to submit a report to the Academic Faculty Chair and may
be
asked to
present at a faculty meeting
Closing date: End of
October each year (deadline extended for 2011 to 31 December)
Information from and
submissions by email to:
Chair, Academic Faculty
The Royal College of Psychiatrists
c/o Kitti
Kottasz, Committee Manager
0207 235 2351 ext 6299
Section of Eating Disorders Psychiatry Bursary for
Trainees
Applications are invited from trainees for bursaries to attend
the Eating Disorders Section Annual Meeting.
The bursary includes up
to £50 towards travel expenses and free registration at the Eating
Disorders Section annual meeting, which is usually held in November
each year.
Three bursaries are available each year:
- One for medical students and foundation year doctors
(FY1-2)
- One for core psychiatric trainees (CT1-3)
- One for specialty psychiatric trainees (ST4-6)
Closing date: 1 September each year
Regulations:
Applicants should send a brief CV (no longer
than 1 side of A4) by email to the Section’s Finance Officer
with a covering letter, stating in no more than 200 words why you
would like to attend the meeting and how you will disseminate your
learning. Please state clearly which of the three bursaries
you are applying for (i.e. whether you are a medical student,
foundation doctor, core trainee or specialty trainee).
Information from and submissions by
email to:
Finance Officer of the Section
of Eating Disorders Psychiatry
c/o Alex Crowe
020 7235 2351 ext 6284
Section of Eating Disorders Psychiatry
Poster Prize for Trainees
This prize has been established by the Eating
Disorders Section for the best poster presentation at its annual
meeting by a psychiatric trainee. The Section wishes to
encourage interest in Eating Disorders Psychiatry and research in
the specialism.
Prize: £250
Frequency: Annually
Eligible: Psychiatric trainees CT1-3 and ST4-6,
as well as comparable European colleagues.
Presentations specifically invited by the Section and
work funded by the Section is NOT eligible.
Where presented: Section annual meeting, which is usually
held in November each year.
Regulations:
I. This prize will be awarded
on the basis of originality and the relevance of eating
disorders in the poster
presentation.
II. Information on submitting posters
for presentation at the annual meeting will be posted each year on
the College
website. 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.
III. The prizewinner will be
expected to provide a summary article for the Section Newsletter
and the full text of their poster presentation for inclusion
on the Section webpages.
IV. The judging panel will consist of
the Chair and two other members of the Section Executive
Committee.
Closing date: 1 September
each year
Information from and
submissions by email to:
Conference Office
The Royal College of
Psychiatrists
020 7235 2351 ext 6129
The Daksha Emson Poster Prize in Perinatal
Psychiatry
The Section of Perinatal Psychiatry has
instituted a prize for any trainee psychiatrist (F2 and CT1-ST6 or
equivalent) who makes the best combined oral and poster
presentation at the Section's Annual Scientific Meeting, usually
held in November/December each year.
Prize: £250 and travel expenses (free attendance at Annual
Scientific Meeting for four trainees chosen to present)
Frequency: Annually
Eligible: Trainees in psychiatry (F2 and CT1-ST6 or
equivalent)
Where presented: Section Annual
Scientific Meeting, usually held in November/December
each year.
Regulations:
I. The prize is awarded to the
specialty trainee who makes the best combined oral and poster
presentation.
II. A small panel of members of the
Section Executive will act as adjudicators.
III. The prize will be advertised
with the scientific meeting call for papers.
Closing date: 15
September each year.
Information from and
submissions by email to:
Conference Office
The Royal College of
Psychiatrists
020 7235 2351 ext 6145
Spirituality and Psychiatry Special
Interest Group Prize
The Spirituality and
Psychiatry Special Interest Group has established a prize to be
awarded to the best entry, or shared between joint best entries,
for submissions comprising an original study, research report,
review, or essay, on spirituality and psychiatry by a single
author. The prize has been established to harness and promote
interest in spirituality and psychiatry, and to motivate
psychiatrists to build up evidence in this area as it relates to
patients and practice.
Prize: £250
Frequency:
Annually
Eligible: All
Members and Affiliates of the College and all medical students
Regulations:
I. Entries will be evaluated according
to the following criteria:
- The extent to which the essay furthers an understanding of
spirituality in relation to psychiatry
- Awareness of the literature on spirituality and psychiatry
- Relevance to psychiatric practice and patient care
- Originality
- Critical reflective quality
Submissions that focus particularly
on one area should nevertheless have at least some merit under all
headings.
II. Entries will be no longer than 5000
words and should be submitted electronically where possible, in
Word (double spaced).
III. Short listing will be the
responsibility of the Executive Committee or a panel appointed by
them from within the Executive, which will include a senior
academic. The Executive Committee reserves the right not to award
the prize in any given year if the quality or relevance of the
entries is deemed not to be of sufficient merit.
IV. The
winning entry/entries, and all authors of shortlisted submissions,
will be notified by 31st March. Shortlisted papers will be eligible
for publication on the Spirituality Special Interest Group
website.
Closing date: 31 December
each year
Submissions to: Honorary
Secretary of the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest
Group
c/o Sue Duncan
0207 235 2351 ext
6130
The Section of Neuropsychiatry (SoN)
Annual Award for Trainees
The Section of Neuropsychiatry (SoN) has
established an award to be granted to the best entry for
submissions comprising an original research report, audit,
literature review, or clinically focused essay in the field of
neuropsychiatry.
Prize: £500 and a certificate
Frequency: Annually
Eligible: The Award is open to all
Psychiatry trainees (CT1-3 and ST4-6) working in the United
Kingdom. Any trainee can win this prize only once during their
career.
Regulations:
Applications for the award will be invited at
least four months before the annual AGM of SoN.
I. The spirit of the
award is to recognise the excellence of the trainee’s work. The
award is intended for those who have taken the lead in the work
that has resulted in the submission, as well as for the submission
itself.
II. In the first
stage, the judges will independently rate all submissions and
shortlist a maximum of 3 potential candidates for the award by
weighing the merits of each submission.
III. Shortlisted
applicants will be invited to present their work during the SoN
annual conference, in September of each year, and winner announced
there as well.
IV. The judging panel
will individually mark the candidates’ presentations and will
subsequently meet to decide the winner.
V. The
award-winner will be announced during the annual conference.
VI. The award-winner
will be expected to provide a summary article for the SoN
newsletter. Work may later on be submitted for publication to a
Journal.
VII. In the absence of a
suitable application, SoN may decide not to give the award at all
for that year.
VIII. The decision of the SoN
judges will be final and binding on all concerned. No appeals will
be allowed.
Application procedure:
1. Candidates are
asked to submit a covering letter application by email explaining
clearly in maximum 300 words the reason for their application and
its suitability for this award. They should clearly specify their
role in any collaborative projects.
2. Along with this
they should submit a description of a research or audit project, a
review article or an essay. The total length excluding references
should not exceed 5000 words.
3. The application
should be accompanied by a letter from their educational / research
supervisor supporting their application and highlighting the
trainee’s contribution to the project.
4. Failure to
follow the procedure will automatically disqualify the candidate
and no resubmissions will be allowed for that year.
Closing date: 30 June each year.
Submissions to: Vice-Chair of
the Section of Neuropsychiatry
c/o Kitti Kottasz
0207 235 2351 ext 6299
Prize and certificate will be posted after the
SoN annual conference.
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