Wider activities

College Journal Prize

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The Senior Fellows Club has sought to support postgraduate training by inaugurating in 2011 an annual £250 prize  – the “College Journal Prize”.

Eligibility

For the best paper published in the College Journal whose first-named author is a doctor in training.

The winner of the 2012 prize, Dr Grace E Walker from London, is pictured (right) thanking the Club for her prize.

One of the two joint 2016 winners, Dr Alastair Rankin from Glasgow, is pictured (right) receiving his prize from Dr Gordon Paterson, Chairman of the Club, for his and his joint first-named co-author's, Dr Richard Tran's, paper. Other prize-winning papers can be accessed below.

Nomination and Selection Process

All eligible papers are collated  by the College for consideration by a panel which includes the Journal Editor and Senior Fellows.

Since 2014, the prize-winner has presented their paper orally at the annual Medical Trainees' Conference at which the prize is presented.

Support for the 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 in the image above.