Prizes and bursaries
The London Division has created a prize for the best submission by a medical undergraduate and foundation doctor within the London Division.
This can be any of the following:
- An essay written on a subject in psychiatry
- A research project in psychiatry where the student is either the main author or has made a significant contribution
- A literature review on a topic in psychiatry
- An essay on psychiatry which is especially relevant to London, due either to historical importance or another topic of local significance
Prize
A maximum of four prizes of £200 each are offered, depending on the standard and number of submissions.
- Two prizes of £200 for medical undergraduates
- Two prizes of £200 for foundation doctors
**Please note prior to 2019 the prizes were given to medical undergraduates only**
Frequency
Annually
Who can enter?
Medical undergraduates and foundation doctors currently in the London Division area
Where presented
London Division Annual Academic Event - 23 November 2020
Terms
- The submission should ideally be between 6000 and 8000 words.
- Research projects should be written in the format normally associated with research articles published in the academic press, and should also include an abstract of no more than 200 words.
- The submission should be the applicant's own work.
- Only one submission per applicant will be accepted.
- The submission is to be forwarded as a Word document.
Submissions should be made electronically to Jennifer Edwards
Closing Date
5pm, 28 October 2020
View previous winners:
- Devyani Shete for work entitled: Can telepsychiatry overcome communication barriers in the clinical consultation? (doc)
- Mehdin Munim Shah for work entitled: Doctor-patient relationship: history, current models and flaws (doc)
- Micheal Abbott for work entitled: Lives unworthy of life: psychiatry and institutional slaughter under the Nazi regime (doc)
- Agnes Okanlawon for work entitled: Weight changes in patients admitted to a specialised ward with profound refractory obsessive compulsive disorder (doc)
- Shaady Parvarandeh for work entitled: Diagnosing depression in ASD SSC (doc)
- Tamara Chithiramonhan for work entitled: The association between childhood attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) problems obesity at age 42: using the prospective 1970 British cohort sample (doc)
- Leuan Lewis, Jessie Pairman, Gavin Spickett, Julia L Newton for work entitled:
Clinical characteristics of a novel subgroup of chronic fatigue syndrome patients with postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (doc) - Rhian Hayes for work entitled: What is the relationship between autism spectrum disorder and offending behaviour, if any? (doc)
- Robert Vaughan for work entitled: Is Anorexia New: Do Historical Accounts of Self Starvation Undermine Western Society’s Purported Role in Anorexia Nervosa’s Aetiology? (doc)
Julie Hammond for work entitled: Assessing Parenting Capacity in Psychiatric Mother and Baby Units: A case report and review of literature
and Katherine Wiles with [Claudia Lage, Sukhwinder S Shergill, Derek K Tracy] for work entitled: A systematic review of the effects of low frequency repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on cognition
- Shumei Germaine Liu for work entitled: Implementing the 4 'A's Test: Detecting delirium in acutely admitted older adults in a London teaching hospital. (doc)
- Mayowa Oyesanya received a Highly Commended for work entitled: Psychiatric Co-Morbidity in Patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome receiving Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (doc)
- Ally Saetta for work entitled: Muscle Dysmorphia - under researched and potentially over diagnosed (doc)
- Aneka Popat has been Highly Commended for the work Anorexia Nervosa in 21st Century Females (doc)
- Sally Bramley for work entitled: The relationship between metacognitive ability, cognitive insight and mood in healthy participants. (doc)
- Runner up is Eleanor Turner-Moss for her work: Labour Exploitation and Health: a case series of men and women seeking post-trafficking services in the UK (doc)
- Shuo Zhang for work entitled: Cross-Cultural Contact - psychosis and the city in modern life. (doc)
- The runner up is Titilopemi Oladosu for Paternal Postnatal Depression. (doc)
- Celia Shiles for her work entitled: Is there a significant interaction between life adversity and the brain derived neurotrophic factor gene in mood disorders? (doc)
- Noa Keren received a Highly Commended for work entitled: The Role of Inhibitory Control and Social Cognition in a Naturalistic Theory of Mind Test (doc)
- Marcus Wade for his work entitled: Does Smoking Cannabis Increase the Risk of Developing Schizophrenia? (doc)
- Eleri Clissold received a Highly Commended for work entitled: Suffering in Silence - Psychiatric co-morbidities in autistic spectrum disorders. (doc)
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