APM Awards
APM Members Audit Prize 2017
Applications are now open for the 2017 APM Members audit prize. Clinical audits and high quality improvement projects are eligible. Entrants should have made a significant contribution to conception, implementation and/or analysis phases. The audit should have begun no more than two years before submitting for the Prize.APM Members Audit Prize Guidance
Closing date for electronic submissions 27 October 2017
National Clinical Excellence Awards (CEA) Round 2017
The Clinical Excellence award scheme is “to reward consultants who contribute most towards the delivery of safe and high quality care to patients, and who are continuously improving the quality of their services to patients and to the NHS ‘over and above’ the standard expected of consultants”. The National awards are particularly focussed on rewarding contributions that have regional and national impact.The APM is a nominating body for the National Clinical Excellence Awards and can support applications made by our members. Deadline 19th March 2017.
Undergraduate Palliative Medicine Essay Prize 2016
Open to all UK and Ireland medical undergraduates who are students as of the closing date.Entries should be no more than 2,000 words, excluding references which must be listed using the Vancouver system.
An electronic version of the application form and essay must be received by 28 November 2016.
Prize – £250
Congratulations
Rosalind Henderson for winning the Undergraduate Essay Prize 2016
Twycross Research Prize 2016
Open to all APM members.Entries should not exceed 3000 words and should be submitted electronically by 23 October 2016 with the submission form.
Prize: £500
Congratulations
Dr Shuchita Patel for winning the Twycross Research Prize 2016 for
‘An observational study of the prevalence of vivid dreams, nightmares and sleep/night terrors in patients with advanced cancer and their association with opioid analgesics’
Undergraduate Audit Prize 2016
Entrants are invited to submit a report of a clinical audit, service evaluation or quality improvement project to which they have made a significant contribution.The report should not exceed 2000 words and should be submitted electronically by 23 September 2016 with the submission form.
Prize: Letter of commendation from the Chairs of Professional Standards and Trainee committees with a Certificate which will be awarded December 2016 and presented at the Junior Conference 2017.
Congratulations
Amy Worrall from Trinity College for winning the APM Undergraduate Audit Prize 2016 for
‘A retrospective study of blood pressure, orthostatic hypotension, and falls in advanced cancer in a specialist palliative care inpatient unit’
APM Award Rules
UNDERGRADUATE PALLIATIVE MEDICINE ESSAY PRIZE 2016
TWYCROSS RESEARCH PRIZE 2016
UNDERGRADUATE AUDIT PRIZE 2016
Medical Student Audit Prize Submission form
UG audit prize poster
APM Audit Guidance Information