Wider activities

College Journal Prizes

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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” – for the best paper written by a doctor in a training grade published in the Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

From 2019, an annual £100 prize will also be awarded for the best "Case of the Quarter" published in the Journal by a trainee.

Eligibility

Any clinical investigation 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.

Prize Selection Process

There is no need to apply or to be nominated to be considered for the Prizes. All eligible papers published in the given year are collated by the College for adjudication by a panel of six 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

Since 2014, the winner of College Journal Prize has delivered his/her paper at this annual conference at which the prize is presented.

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

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

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.

Past recipients of the College Journal Prize