The Corrigan Award is our annual BST case study competition. It recognises excellence in communication - The ability to identify complicating and challenging aspects of patient histories and communicate what we can learn from them.
The winner receives the Corrigan Medal, named after past RCPI President Sir Dominic Corrigan (1859 – 1863) and an educational grant worth €1,000.
This competition is open to all Trainees currently undertaking BST with RCPI and the Joint Residency Training Programme.
You will be asked to submit an abstract of an interesting or challenging case that you encountered while in BST or JRTP. The case can be published or unpublished.
The Corrigan Medal is open to Trainees registered on the BST programme or JRTP at the time of case submission.
This prize is awarded by the RCPI Trainees' Committee
Submissions for 2022 are now closed.
The David Mitchell Award recognises audits that improve patient care and/or specialist education and training.
The winning Trainee or team of Trainees receives the David Mitchell Award and an educational grant worth €1,000 for a single Trainee or €1,500 for a team Trainees.
This competition is open to all Trainees, or a team of Trainees currently registered with RCPI.
The David Mitchell Award is open to individual Trainees or a team of Trainees currently registered on an RCPI training programme. Applicants must have made a significant contribution at the conception and implementation phases of the audit.
This prize is awarded by the RCPI Trainees' Committee
Submissions for 2022 are now closed.
The William Stokes Award is awarded by the Trainees' Committee in RCPI. It recognises research of the highest standards carried out by Trainees in Higher Specialist Training. The winning Trainee receives the William Stokes Award and an educational grant worth €4,000.
The award is open to all Trainees currently undertaking Higher Specialist Training with RCPI.
You will need to submit an abstract of your research paper, which will be judged by the RCPI Trainees' Committee.
The William Stokes Award is open to Trainees currently undertaking HST with RCPI.
This prize is awarded by the RCPI Trainees' Committee
Submissions for 2022 are now closed.
The Dorothy Stopford Price Medal was introduced in 2018 to recognise excellence in research or audit on vaccination, immunisation or control of infectious diseases and its potential impact on public health.
The medal and an educational grant worth €1,000 is awarded by the Faculty of Public Health Medicine to honour this pioneer in infectious disease control in Ireland.
You will need to submit an abstract that describes your research project, quality improvement initiative or audit on vaccination, immunisation, or other aspects of the prevention or control of infectious diseases.
Your abstract must include recommendations for patient safety or the potential of the findings to impact on population health.
You can apply for the Dorothy Stopford Price Medal if you are registered on a BST or HST programme with RCPI at the time of abstract submission.
This prize is awarded by the Faculty of Public Health Medicine.
Submissions for 2022 are now closed.
Dr Dorothy Stopford Price (1890– 1954) worked in St Ultan’s Hospital for Infants and in Baggot St Hospital, both in Dublin.
She studied TB vaccination on the continent and pioneered its use in St Ultan’s in 1937, making it the first hospital in Ireland or Britain to use BCG.
She is a role model for doctors working to control infectious diseases and ensure adequate levels of vaccination in the population.
The Kate McGarry Prize was introduced by the RCPI Trainees' Committee in 2019. It is an eJournal Club for doctors in Basic and Higher Specialist Training, providing a unique opportunity to share your reviews of practice-changing articles with over 1,000 doctors.
The eJournal Club is in RCPI Brightspace, our virtual learning environment, and it's now open for submissions from doctors in BST and HST.
You are welcome to submit reviews presented at journal clubs in your hospital.
To get started, go to RCPI Brightspace and look for “eJournal Club” in your courses.
Or, if you're logged in to our website, click
here: https://brightspace.rcpi.ie/d2l/le/lessons/9484
Before you submit a review, please read our submission criteria here (PDF)
All entries will be marked in accordance with this marking scheme (PDF)
Submissions will be judged by SpRs in Higher Specialist Training on a bi-monthly basis. The winning review for each submission period will be published in the eJournal Club and the winner will receive a voucher.
The deadlines for each submission period are:
The eJournal club accepts submissions from doctors in both BST and HST training schemes. Winning reviews will be considered for the Kate McGarry prize, including a medal and €1,000, which will be presented at the annual National Education Day for Doctors in Training, which will take place on the 20th May 2022.
Dr Kate McGarry was a much loved Consultant Physician in Navan and a Fellow on RCPI Council for 25 years.
She had a special interest in non-invasive cardiology and played a major role in developing Cardiology services in Navan.
In RCPI, she served as Vice President, Censor, and Associate Director of Hospital Site Accreditation. She was also President of the Irish Heart Foundation. She had over 30 international publications and helped discover a new genetic abnormality in an Irish family with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
She was a trailblazer for Irish women in Medicine, and a thoughtful and compassionate doctor.
She passed away on 5 January 2018.
The inaugural Kate McGarry Prize will be awarded in 2020/21.
The Trainer of the Year Award is an initiative of the RCPI Trainees’ Committee first introduced for the Trainee Awards as part of National Education Day for Doctors in Training in 2021. The award recognises the high standard of training, support and leadership provided by trainers in RCPI.
Trainees are invited to nominate a trainer, under whom they have worked within the preceding 12 months.
The winner of the 2022 Trainer of the Year Award is Dr Mendinaro Imcha, who is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist as well as the Clinical Lead for Maternal and Child Health at University Maternity Hospital Limerick, UL Hospitals Group.
Dr Imcha explains why she loves being an RCPI Trainer: “Being in the medical field is a great opportunity to have a positive effect on how we train our junior doctors. Our efforts result in a large group of well-trained doctors who go on to spread this positive effect further. This has a huge impact on society.
When I meet a trainee, I remember that I was in their position once upon a time. I remember how I felt, and what I needed. With that perspective, I talk to each of them to understand them and to know how they want to develop. My aim is to make them better than what they think they could be. The work my team does may not be easy, but it will be wonderful. We bond with and we challenge each other. We seek and share opportunities. My trainees are trained to be better healers, better managers, better teachers, and quite importantly better humans."
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