Awards and grants

Clinical Excellence Awards are given by the Department of Health to recognise and reward the exceptional contributions of individual National Health Service Consultants, over and above those normally expected. Consultants who apply for CEAs have to show commitment to achieving a high quality of care to patients and to the continuous improvement of the National Health Service. The award is in addition to the annual salary.

Generously endowed by the late Dr Thomas Watts Eden, we are delighted to offer this travel fellowship again for 2013. It is open to medical graduates (who graduated within the last two years) who are currently undertaking a research project. The winner can use the funds (up to £5,000) to visit any other department(s) within O&G or a related discipline to gain additional knowledge and experience.

We are pleased to offer an annual prize of £150 through the kind generosity of the late Mr John Lawson FRCOG, for the best article on a topic derived from work carried out in Africa between the tropics of Capricorn and Cancer.

This award is open to Members and non-Members of the RCOG.

Through the kind and generous bequest of the late Mr and Mrs Gilbert Edgar, the RCOG is delighted to offer this prize in 2013.

Open to both Members and Non-members of the RCOG, this award of £750 plus £250 in book tokens will be made to the candidate who submits the best piece of original work on the cause, nature, recognition and treatment of any form of cancer of the female genital tract.

The RCOG, with the kind and generous support of Ethicon, is pleased to offer up to £500 of funding towards approved student medical electives in obstetrics and gynaecology taking place in 2014.

Through the generosity of the Women's Visiting Gynaecological Club, the RCOG is able to offer £500 towards an overseas elective in obstetrics and gynaecology to a medical student in the UK or Republic of Ireland.

The British Pregnancy Advisory Service has very generously endowed the Peter Huntingford Memorial Prize to mark the late Professor Peter Huntingford's contribution to obstetrics and gynaecology. This has enabled the RCOG to provide two wonderful prizes of £1000 and £500 to two lucky recipients.

The Tim Chard Case History Prize, open to medical students from the UK and Republic of Ireland, has been generously endowed by Bart's and The London School of Medicine to further the contribution of the late Professor Tim Chard in obstetrics and gynaecology.

The Herbert Erik Reiss Memorial Prize is available to medical students and junior doctors (FY1 and 2) in the UK and Republic of Ireland.

The Calcutta (Kolkata) Eden Hospital, a major maternity and gynaecological hospital and part of the Calcutta Medical College Hospital was the medical school of Mr Prabhat Chattopadhyay FRCOG, who, through his generosity has enabled the RCOG to offer an annual prize of £300 of book tokens to final year medical students or junior FY1 doctors in the UK and Republic of Ireland.