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. On the left Dr Justin Geddes, winner of The College Journal Prize 2023 and on the right 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.
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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
"MuCovid-21” study: Mucormycosis at an Indian tertiary care centre during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Callum Mutch and Dr Daniella Ross, Specialist Medical Trainees, Clinical Infection Research Group, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh
2023
Justin C Geddes et al.
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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 vaccine2023
Charlotte J Dewdney et al.