Trainee Prize
The Senior Fellows Club supports postgraduate training with an annual College Journal Prize of £250 and, since 2019, an annual Case of the Quarter Prize of £150, for the best papers written by a doctor in a training grade published in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
An elegant certificate is also awarded with each. Certificates of Commendation may be awarded to runners-up.
The winners of this year’s prizes are pictured below receiving their certificates from Senior Fellow Committee member, Dr Ron Fergusson.
Dr Justin Geddes, winner of The College Journal Prize 2023
Dr Charlotte Dewdney, winner of the Case for the Quarter 2023
Eligibility
Any clinical investigation or audit whose first-named author is a doctor in a training grade is eligible for the College Journal Prize; and any case report or case series whose first-named author is a doctor in a training grade is eligible for the Case of the Quarter Prize.
There is no need to apply for either prize as all eligible papers are considered.
Prize Selection Process
All eligible papers published in the given year are collated by the chairman of the adjudicating panel of four College Fellows or Collegiate Members. This panel includes the Journal Editor-in-Chief, the Chairman of the Senior Fellows Club and the Chairman of the College’s Trainees & Members Committee
Medical Trainees Conference
Both prize-winners, if UK-based, are invited by the College’s Trainees & Members Committee to attend this annual conference at which the prizes are presented and at which the College Journal Prize-winner is expected to deliver his or her paper.
Publication: Medical Lives: Memories and Musings
An anthology of reminiscences and reflections by members of the Club published in October 2022, jointly by the College and the Senior Fellows Club, Medical Lives: Memories and Musings.
Support for the College Library
The Club also makes donations to the College Library. For example, it sponsored the repair and conservation of an important antiquarian book, the first illustrated textbook of anatomy published in England, the English translation of 1559. Its before and after state is shown above.
Past recipients of the College Journal Prize
2011
Dr Andrew D McCallum, Core Medical Trainee. Borders General Hospital, Melrose, Roxburghshire.
2012
Dr Grace E Walker, ST2 Trainee, ACCS Training Programme. Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and King’s Health Partners, London.
2013
Dr Ben Dobb, Specialty Registrar, Acute Medicine. Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen.
A pilot survey of decisions by acute medicine staff after thunderclap headache
2014
Dr Barry Quinn, Foundation Year 2 doctor. Daisy Hill Hospital. Newry, Northern Ireland.
2015
Dr Rebecca R Acquah, Specialist Registrar in Genitourinary Medicine. Brownlee Centre, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow.
2016
Dr Richard Tran / Dr Alastair Rankin (joint first authors), Clinical Fellow in Acute Medicine / Medical Registrar. Acute Stroke Unit, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow.
2017
Dr John Widdrington, Specialty Trainee, Department of Infection and Tropical Medicine, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Missed opportunities to diagnose syphilis prior to the development of sight-losing uveitis
2018
Dr Isuru Induruwa, Clinical Research Fellow in Stroke Medicine, Cambridge University Hospitals.
2019
Dr Alison Donaldson, Specialist Registrar in Geriatrics, Aberdeen.
2020
Dr Avinash Jain / Mr Harshit Singh (joint first authors), Senior Resident / PhD Student, Department of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
Distinct T-cell immunophenotypic signature in a subset of sarcoidosis patients with arthritis
2021
Dr Milka Marinova, Clinical Research Fellow, National Institute of Health Research Collaborations, Imperial College, London
A prospective audit of bed utilisation and delays in care across London
2022
Dr Sumeet Kumar, Medical Trainee, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Medical College and Associated Hospitals, Indore, Madya Pradesh, India
Dr Callum Mutch and Dr Daniella Ross, Specialist Medical Trainees, Clinical Infection Research Group, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
Past recipients of the Case of the Quarter Prize
2019
Dr Naomi Bulteel, Specialist Trainee in Infectious Diseases, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.
2020
Dr John Headlam, Geriatric Registrar, Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bradford, UK
Disseminated bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG): a cause of delirium in an older adult
2021
Dr Navya Bezawada, Clinical Development Fellow, Beatson West of Scotland Cancer Care Centre, Glasgow,
Challenging presentations of germ cell tumours in routine clinical practice
2022
Dr Carol Goh Chew Yuen, Haematology Trainee, Hospital Pulau Pinang, George Town, Penang, Malaysia
A probable case of vaccine-induced immune thrombotic thrombocytopenia secondary to Pfizer Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine(link is external)