College Journal Prizes
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.
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 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
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.
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 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.
Past recipients of the Case of the Quarter Prize
2019
Dr Naomi Bulteel, Specialist Trainee in Infectious Diseases, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh.