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 is 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. 
  
  Prize winner 2013
  Dr Daniel Racey
  
  Prize winner 2011
  Dr Gareth Jarvis
  
  Prize winner 2010
  Dr David Brunskill

• Poster Presentation Prize
  The Poster Prize is 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 a prize for innovation of £250.
  
  Prize winners Spring 2013
  First Prize - Dr Amy Green
  Second Prize - Dr Ami Kothari
  Innovation Prize - Dr Ami Kothari
  
  Prize winners Autumn 2012
  First Prize - Dr Robert Dixon
  Second Prize - Dr Claudia Murton
  Innovation Prize - Dr Jason Hancock, Dr Nik Bhandari and Dr Ami Kothari (Joint)
  
  Prize winners Spring 2012
  First Prize - Dr Leanne Hayward
  Second Prize - Dr Mark Harrison
  Innovation Prize - Dr Sebastian Rotheray

• South West Undergraduate Medical Student Prize
  The South West Division Undergraduate Medical Student Prize is 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.    
  
  Essays 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. 
  This competition is now closed for 2013.
  
  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 2012
  Dr Adrian Flynn

• The Lisa Thomas Poetry Prize
  This is an annual prize open to anyone connected with mental health.  They can have previously 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.
  This competition is now closed for 2013.
  
  Prize winners
  

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