There are over 70 prizes available for those in clinical training.
Please note this page is updated regularly.
All submissions must be sent in by 11.59pm on the stated deadline date.
Generally prizes, awards or travel grants must be claimed before the end of the academic year in which they are gained (30 September).
For more information or help please contact info@rsm.ac.uk
Critical Care Medicine Section: Audit and Quality Improvement Project Prize -KnO2wledge 2025
Deadline: Sunday 2 March 2025
Open to: All UK and Eire trainees in intensive care medicine and health care professionals (medical, nursing, paramedic, pharmacy, or other allied healthcare professions) with an interest in intensive care medicine
Dermatology Section: Trainee Research Prize
Deadline: Thursday 17 April 2025
Open to: All dermatology trainees in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Newly qualified consultants whose research was completed as a trainee in the previous year are also eligible.
Dermatology Section: Hugh Wallace Essay Prize
Deadline: Thursday 24 April 2025
Open to: Applications are invited from Dermatology registrars who have has a paper published by registrar in a peer reviewed journal in the last 12 months.
Nephrology Section: Images in Nephrology award
Deadline: Friday 28 February 2025
Open to: Any trainees or fellows training in nephrology and wider specialties.
Nephrology Section: Publication Prize
Deadline: Ongoing
Open to those who are:
Ophthalmology Section: Students and Trainees Prize
Submission deadline: Thursday 17 April 2025
Open to: Medical students and doctors in training
Prize: Best Poster: £150, Best Paper: £150, and one year's membership to the Royal Society of Medicine
Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Section: UMAX Poster Prize
Submission deadline: Saturday 2 February 2025
Open to: All trainees without dual qualification including undergraduate students as well as singly qualified and second-degree medical and dental students
Prize: 1 year's RSM membership
The role of robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Oral and Maxillofacial surgery
Submission deadline: Saturday 8 February 2025
Open to: All trainees without dual qualification including undergraduate, singly-qualified, and second-degree medical and dental students
Prize: £50
Paediatrics & Child Health Section: President's prize 2025
Submission deadline: Sunday 9 February 2025
Open to: Students and paediatrics trainees
Prize:
First prize: £250
Second prize: £150
Paediatrics & Child Health Section: Overseas bursary
Submission deadline: Sunday June 1 2025
Open to: Current RSM Paediatrics & Child Health Section members of all grades
Bursary: Up to 5 bursaries will be available per year - covering the registration fee plus a contribution of £500 towards travel and hotel costs
Psychiatry Section: Students and Trainees Award
Deadline: Friday 14 February 2025
Open to: Medical students, foundation and specialist trainees
Submission deadline: Tuesday 1 April 2025
Open to: Resident Doctors and Students
1st Prize: £500, 2nd Prize: £300, 3rd Prize: £100
Submission deadline: Monday 3 February 2025
Open to: ST3 and above who have received all or part of their training in the UK. Registrars from any specialty may apply. Applicants need to have been a Specialist Registrar when the project was undertaken (including IMT3 year)
Prize: £100 and free attendance to the RSM Respiratory Careers Day on Monday 12 May 2025
Foundation Year and Senior House Officer Award
Submission deadline: Monday 3 February 2025
Open to: Junior doctors currently in foundation training or SHO level in the UK (IMT trainees, JCF, trust-grade SHO). Applicants need to have been a Foundation Year doctor or Senior House Officer (e.g. IMT1/2, Trust Grade SHO, F3) when the project was undertaken, and need to be the first author of the abstract.
Prize: £100 and free attendance to the RSM Respiratory Careers Day on Monday 12 May 2025
Submission deadline: Wednesday 15 January 2025 at 11:59pm.
Open to: Specialist registrars and research fellows in all specialties as long as the case pertains to rheumatology
Prize: Free access to the upcoming Rheumatology & Rehabilitation Section event to present their work on a poster, and a certificate recognising their efforts in submitting the abstract.
Submission deadline: Wednesday 15 January 2025 at 11:59pm.
Open to: Specialist registrars, research fellows, and allied health professionals in all specialities as long as the research pertains to rheumatology
Prize: Free access to the upcoming Rheumatology & Rehabilitation Section event to present their work on a poster, and a certificate recognising their efforts in submitting the abstract.
Surgery Section: Norman Tanner Prize and Glaxo Travelling Fellowship
Deadline: Monday 24th March 2025
Open to: All surgical trainees
Prize: £250 and the Norman Tanner Medal - Glaxo Travel Fellowship £250
"It’s a great privilege for our team to have been recognised by this prestigious award from the RSM Surgery Section and reflects the dedicated work behind this exciting innovation."
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