Trainee Representation and Opportunities

The Corrigan Award is open to Trainees registered on the Basic Specialist Training (BST) programme and International Residency Training Programme of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) at the time of case submission.

Apply for the Corrigan Medal here.

You will be asked to submit an abstract of an interesting or challenging case that you encountered while in your BST or IRP. The case can be published or unpublished.

Download Submission Guidelines for Corrigan Award

Submissions are marked by a review panel made up of RCPI Consultant Trainers and members of the RCPI Trainees Committee.

The closing date for applications is Sunday, 30 November 2025. 

The David Mitchell Award is open to all Trainees or teams of Trainees currently registered on an RCPI training programme.

Apply for the David Mitchell Award here.

• You must identify a problem where clinical audit can improve the care provided to patients and/or specialist education and training
• There must be identified standards
• The sample size must be appropriate to the problem
• The data collection methodology must be comprehensive
• The analysis must be robust to identify problems
• The submission must demonstrate how changes in practice have been achieved
• The audit must be a completed cycle rather than a preliminary standard setting investigation or a simple descriptive study

Download Submission Guidelines for David Mitchell Award  

Submissions are marked by a review panel made up of RCPI Consultant Trainers and members of the RCPI Trainees Committee.

The closing date for applications is midnight Sunday, 30 November 2025.

The award is open to all Trainees currently undertaking Higher Specialist Training and International Clinical Fellowship Programme (ICFP) with RCPI.

Apply for the William Stokes Award here.

You will need to submit an abstract of your research paper:

• Your research may be either published or unpublished but it must have been undertaken in the last three years.
• Abstracts must be based on original research in the field of medicine and/or its subspecialties.
• The abstract must not exceed 400 words in length.
• Patient confidentiality must be observed.

Download Submission Guidelines for William Stokes Award 

Submissions are marked by a review panel made up of RCPI Consultant Trainers and members of the RCPI Trainees Committee.

The closing date for applications is midnight Sunday, 30 November 2025.

You can apply for the Dorothy Stopford Price Medal if you are registered on a Basic Specialist Training (BST) programme, Higher Specialist Training (HST) programme, International Residency Training Programme (IRTP) or the International Clinical Fellowship Programme (ICFP) with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) at the time of abstract submission.

Apply for the Dorothy Stopford Price Medal here.

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.

Download Submission Guidelines for Dorothy Stopford Price Medal

This prize is awarded by the Faculty of Public Health Medicine.

Submissions are marked by a review panel made up of RCPI Consultant Trainers from the Faculty of Public Health Medicine and members of the RCPI Trainees Committee.

The closing date for applications is midnight Sunday, 30 November 2025.

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.

You can apply for the Arthur Eakins Award if you are registered on a Basic Specialist Training (BST) programme, Higher Specialist Training (HST) programme, International Residency Training Programme (IRTP) or the International Clinical Fellowship Programme (ICFP) with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) at the time of abstract submission.

Apply for the Arthur Eakins Award here.

Applicants are required to submit an abstract that describes their research project or
Quality Improvement initiative on Trainee health and wellbeing.

Download Submission Guidelines for Arthur Eakins Award 

The closing date for applications is midnight Sunday, 30 November 2025.

Arthur Eakins (1932–2022) worked as a general practitioner in Belfast (1958-1975), when he developed an interest in occupational medicine. During his career, he produced papers and articles on military medicine, alcohol abuse, sickness absence, low back pain and psychology of work. He also co-authored a published paper on occupational medical manpower in Ireland in 2002 and a book entitled The Somme: What Happened to the Casualties in 2008.

The eJournal club is for doctors in an Internal Medicine programme and in Basic Specialist Training (BST), Higher Specialist Training (HST), International Residency Training Programme (IRTP) or the International Clinical Fellowship Programme (ICFP) with the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI). The winning reviews from the eJournal Club will be eligible for the Kate McGarry prize.

Find out more about the eJournal Club and how to apply for the Kate McGarry Prize

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 was awarded in 2020/21.

Trainees are invited to nominate a Trainer, under whom they have worked within the preceding 12 months.

Submissions for 2024/2025 are now open. Please nominate your Trainer here by midnight 5 May 2025.

Download Trainer of the Year Award Nomination Guidelines