Zeshan Qureshi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Education

The “Zeshan Qureshi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Education” was launched in 2014. It aims to acknowledge the efforts of junior doctors and medical students, who in their spare time, have been setting up and contributing to projects to help their fellow students.

Entries for the 2020 Award are now closed

Winners of the Zeshan Qureshi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Education 2020

Ricky Ellis
Ricky Ellis

Urology ST4

Winner – 2020

Ricky is a Urology Registrar and Intercollegiate Research Fellow, currently undertaking a PhD in Medical Education. He holds the belief that everyone should have access to good education, supportive mentors and affordable resources to enable them to achieve their full potential, and passionately believes that no student or doctor should experience financial barriers to learning. He has therefore worked tirelessly to create peer-reviewed textbooks and revision courses that are affordable and accessible to all. His research aims to characterise differential attainment in surgical examinations in order to enable equity and fairness in training and career progression. He dedicates most of his free time to training and empowering others to develop themselves as clinicians, trainers and leaders.

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Setthasorn Zhi Yang Ooi
Setthasorn Zhi Yang Ooi

3rd Year Medical Student, Cardiff University School of Medicine

Runner Up – 2020

Sett’s primary academic interest lies in global surgery, clinical neuroscience and medical education, and he is deeply passionate about education equity for international students and underprivileged students. Sett has been involved in various medical education initiatives through several national and international committees such as his role as President of the Cardiff University Surgical Society (CUSS) and the Cardiff Healthcare International Perspective Society (CHIPS) as well as Vice Chair of Internal Affairs in the Neurology and Neurosurgery Interest Group (NANSIG). He strongly believes in the role of mentorship and has found himself in the position where he has had the privilege to mentor prospective and current medical students internationally.

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George W X Barker
George W X Barker

Final Year Medical Student, University College London

Runner Up – 2020

After moving to London from Merseyside, George has completed his studies at University College London. Between ward rounds, clinics, and volunteering in intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic, George volunteered for Sexpression:UK, a charity delivering comprehensive and LGBT+ inclusive relationships and sex education in secondary schools. He served as National Director, with highlights including BBC interviews, speaking at the House of Lords, and lobbying the Department for Education to improve the curriculum. Alongside completing other medical education projects, George’s clinical interests are prehospital emergency medicine, anaesthetics and space medicine, having attended courses at the European Space Agency. In 2021 he was named national LGBT+ Undergraduate of the Year.

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Ashwin Venkatesh
Highly Commended 2020

As an undergraduate, Ashwin Venkatesh became embedded as a researcher within Polygeia, a Student-led Global Health Thinktank, which prompted him to recognise prevalent public health issues and strive towards equity in access and opportunity for quality healthcare and education. He was able to publish his work investigating leprosy in vulnerable populations in India in online journals and present at the Annual Wellcome Collection Conference and was subsequently invited to the House of Lords which enabled fruitful discussions with leading policymakers. This served as a platform for Ashwin to visit India and Nepal the following summer, where he spent a one-month observership at the Aravind Eye Hospital before heading to the remote hillside village of Labse in the earthquake-ravaged district of Sindhupalchok, teaching English and Mathematics in a local primary school. These experiences grounded him immensely and made him passionate to engage widely with people from all backgrounds to promote their interests, wellbeing and development.

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Mohammed Ehsaanuz Zaman
Mohammed Ehsaanuz Zaman
Highly Commended – 2020

Throughout his medical school career, George has been an avid champion of medical education. George has always found ways to engage and improve medical education of his peers and juniors, and always promotes student and junior doctor participation in education. His contributions to this effort have seen him awarded several prizes throughout his degree, and, most recently, his commitment was recognised through becoming a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Dillon Vyas
Dillon Vyas

University of Leeds, MBChB – Medicine and Surgery

Winner – 2019

Dillon’s interests in medical education started when he got involved with the Leeds Medical Education Academy (LMEA). LMEA is a week-long summer school for widening participation sixthform students to give them exposure to what it’s like being a medical student through workshops and lectures themed around different specialties. In his 2nd year he led the Academic Medicine day and in his 4th year he led the Paediatrics day. This year, the Covid-19 pandemic has meant, he’s been given the task to coordinate the first ever virtual summer school.

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George Solomou
George Solomou

4th year Graduate - entry medical student

Runner Up – 2019

George is currently taking a year out of his studies to pursue a full-time research degree to study and characterise xenograft mouse models of diffuse adult glial tumours of the brain, for which he is granted three scholarships/research grants. He is primarily interested in pursuing a career in academic neurosurgical oncology, dreaming of being able to operate on brain tumours using cutting edge technology, including intra-operative adjuncts. His previous work has been recognised with national awards from the British Society for Nanomedicine and British Association of Clinical Anatomists (Conrad Lewin prize). He is currently the leading investigator of a UK and Ireland prospective cohort study, evaluating resection rates and adjuncts used in theatre for the surgical excision of high-grade gliomas.

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Harry Carr
Harry Carr

Final year MBBS student

Runner Up – 2019

Harry is a final year medical student at Newcastle University with aspirations for a career in academic and operative neurosurgery. Currently he oversees several Regional, National and International academic committees and organisations dedicated to medical education and collaborative research with special interests in the neurosciences, surgery and space/extreme environment medicine.

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William Bolton
William Bolton

MBChB, PhD Candidate, BSc (Hons) Medical Imaging

Runner Up – 2019

Will has developed himself as a medical educator throughout his early career. As an FY1, he taught physician associates their surgical curriculum at a local trust during their placement there. He then became a Clinical Research Fellow and during the last three years has taken time out of his clinical training working as a research in Global Surgery. As well as the research projects he has co-led training courses for junior doctors in Sierra Leone, as well as supervising a number of BSc, MSc and medical students at the University of Leeds.

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George Choa
George Choa

Graduate, University College London Medical School

Highly Commended – 2019

Throughout his medical school career, George has been an avid champion of medical education. George has always found ways to engage and improve medical education of his peers and juniors, and always promotes student and junior doctor participation in education. His contributions to this effort have seen him awarded several prizes throughout his degree, and, most recently, his commitment was recognised through becoming a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

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Dr Matthew Walton

International diploma in mountain medicine, foundation doctor training in the NHS

Runner up – 2019

Resilience film project – produced films to create a dialogue around emergency workers’ mental health

Ter-Er Kusu-Orkar
Ter-Er Kusu-Orkar

Academic foundation Doctor year 1

Highly Commended – 2019

Ter-Er is a foundation doctor, pursuing a career in cardiothoracic surgery, who has used every opportunity to further the education of others. From creating resources for his medical school’s clinical skills department to developing programmes for his universities athletic union and hosting a national conference, teaching is definitely a passion for Ter-Er.

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Fatima Ali
Fatima Ali

5th year medical student at Imperial College London

Highly Commended – 2019

Fatima is a fifth-year medical student at Imperial College London and has completed a BSc degree in Business Management in Healthcare at Imperial College Business School. She has been avidly involved in social justice and health-peace advocacy on a local, national and international level. She is passionate about creating relevant and inclusive quality medical education for all and ensuring innovative practices are used to bridge the gaps in access to education.

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Sashiananthan Ganesananthan
Sashiananthan Ganesananthan

Penultimate year medical student, Cardiff University

Highly Commended – 2019

Sashi is a penultimate year medical student from Cardiff University, currently intercalating at Imperial College London. He has a deep interest in cardiovascular/gastroenterology research and medical education Progressing through medical school, he found himself in a position where he had the privilege of helping other students grasp concepts of basic sciences as a second-year student. With these efforts, Sashi helped raise money for Welsh Hearts and British Heart Foundation.

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Jack Whiting
Jack Whiting

FY1 at John Radcliffe Hospital

Highly Commended – 2019

Jack discovered a passion for medical education whilst at medical school, and in particularly has developed a dedication for widening participation – enabling young people from non-traditional backgrounds to make competitive applications to study medicine. He has mentored on the nationally recognised BrightMed programme since 2014 and has helped over 500 students. Jack has taken the lead on designing, creating and delivering his own full day sessions, including a neurology themed escape room and a gastroenterology walkthrough (conversion of teaching buildings into a full GI tract – think Rick and Morty Anatomy Park! He has also completed and published several research projects on medical education and widening participation in medicine. Jack was awarded the National Education Opportunities Student of the Year Award in 2018, recognising his innovative practice in WP, and the impact of his work.

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Milani Sivapragasam
Milani Sivapragasam

MD-MSc Candidate, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Highly Commended – 2019

Milani has consistently emerged as a student leader in undergraduate medical education (UME). Passionate about a training culture that values inquiry, she worked hard to cultivate such a learning environment at McGill. She became the inaugural student representative to an UME committee on Scholarship, Critical Thinking and Knowledge Translation. Here, she led the redevelopment of a foundational course entitled Research Fundamentals. She also served as Editor-in-Chief of the McGill Journal of Medicine where she increased submission rates from students and set up a sustainable infrastructure for the student-run journal. At the national level, Milani was nominated to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association for Medical Education (CAME) and has published two manuscripts with the Clinician Investigator Trainee Association of Canada (CITAC).

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Adam Vaughan
Adam Vaughan

Undergraduate Degree in Medicine and Surgery – MBBS, Newcastle University

Highly Commended – 2019

Adam began his MedEd career by volunteering to teach with the Newcastle MedEd Society. He then secured a place on committee as Year 2 Lead where he was responsible for creating a new revision course to supplement the university’s new curriculum. They trialled new formats that have never been tried before, including introducing monthly lectures, and using new software to allow students to ask questions anonymously to increase participation. From this, he created two research projects with his team, which they presented at this year’s TASME conference: “Near Peer Teaching in Newcastle University MedEd Society: Are Regular Revision Lectures a Good Addition to Pre-Exam Preparation Sessions” and “Anonymous Questioning: Breaking Down Barriers to Learning”.

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Dr Daniel Purchase
Dr Daniel Purchase

Hull UniversityTeaching Hospitals

Highly Commended – 2019

Daniel has shown great dedication and commitment towards developing himself as a medical educator over the last 6 years. Putting himself out there, and receiving regular feedback from his students and peers, has taught him a lot. He has seized opportunities to help educate others in a variety of different roles. Daniel believes continued experience in education is vital for the current generation of medical professionals, as they strive to keep pace with scientific research, technological advances and their novel applications to medicine.

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Maria Ahmad
Maria Ahmad

Third year medical student at Barts and The London

Winner – 2018

Maria has taken a leading role in a large number of medical education projects. Her passion for Medical Education stems from recognising that teaching of first aid in her Cadet group needed to be improved in order to engage young Cadets. From starting as a Lead Cadet implementing innovative approaches to the delivery of first aid teaching, Maria has become a Senior Trainer and Assessor at Bart’s City Life Saver and an author for The Medic Portal, an organisation that supports students applying to medical school. Maria has supported 140 students applying to study Medicine as well as writing blog posts that have had an international impact. She has also held roles with Barts Teddy Bear Hospital, Barts Medical Education and Support Society and Barts Language and Culture Society. Maria is clearly an excellent medical educator with a real passion for teaching and helping others.

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Pooja Devani
Pooja Devani

Final year medical student at University of Birmingham

Runner Up – 2018

Pooja has built her own medical education company (Step2Med) from scratch, supporting school pupils with their applications to medical and dental school. She also established a paediatrics journal club at her University, is in the process of leading a national paediatrics conference and is writing two books about life at medical school and the academic foundation programme. Pooja has worked incredibly hard throughout medical school to achieve good grades alongside her medical education interests and we look forward to seeing how Step2Med develops over the next few years!

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Timothy Shun Man Chu
Timothy Shun Man Chu

Fourth year medical student at Newcastle University

Runner Up – 2018

Timothy has achieved an impressive amount in his short career so far. He has recently organised a regional peer-assisted surgical skills course for students that has been awarded presentation prizes by the Association of the Study of Medical Education and the Healthcare Leadership Academy. As well as this he has worked with his University’s Surgical Society and Academic Medicine Society to deliver numerous teaching events and founded a journal club for medical students. He is currently developing an ENT-themed month including teaching sessions, theatre time and surgical skills teaching, so we look forward to hearing all about that. Timothy is also currently a principal investigator for a pilot qualitative anatomy education study, and will be looking into developing it to a national scale.

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Lasith Ranasinghe
Lasith Ranasinghe

Fifth year medical student at Imperial College London

Runner Up – 2018

Lasith has developed several medical education initiatives during his time at medical school, including publishing high quality revision resources, organising several mock examinations, coordinating a lecture series and pioneering a tutorial series. He is currently working on an international project aiming to deliver medical textbooks to students in developing countries. Lasith’s work so far has been truly outstanding and we are sure he will have a fantastic career in medical education.

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Sagar Kulkarni
Sagar Kulkarni

Final year medical student at Barts and The London

Highly Commended – 2018

Sagar has developed a number of medical education projects whilst at medical school in the field of radiology. As well as hosting the UK’s first national radiology conference and devising a course for foundation doctors to improve their recognition of incorrectly sited lines, Sagar has developed an innovative artificial intelligence project with a focus on foetal ultrasound scanning. This project has been recognised by the American Roentgen Ray Society and the Canadian Association of Radiology. He is now working with his medical school to improve the curriculum for future students. Best of luck in your future career Sagar!

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Kacper Niburski
Kacper Niburski

Second year medical student at McGill University, Canada

Highly Commended – 2018

Kacper has founded several medical education projects whilst at medical school. Community Health and Social Medicine (CHASM) is an organisation that encourages and funds medical students to develop projects to support marginalised communities, which is currently being developed nationally in Canada. He also encourages medical students to be creative and reflect on their patient experiences through a creative writing group (Community Writing Workshop) and an art gallery (Journeys Through Health). Finally, he has developed an ultrasound course for medical students to improve their skills in this undertaught field. Congratulations, Kacper! Keep up the great work.

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Sophie Lewis
Sophie Lewis

Junior clinical fellow at the Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport

Highly Commended – 2018

Sophie is passionate about medical education and has developed a number of teaching programmes aimed at medical students and junior doctors, including OSCE revision courses, advice for junior doctors starting their F1 and F2 years and the ‘You’ve Been Bleeped’ course, which hopefully will be delivered nationally. We wish Sophie all the best of luck in her Medical Education MSc and we’re sure that she will continue to provide high quality teaching to her peers and medical students.

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Bhavesh Tailor and Tanya Ta
Bhavesh Tailor and Tanya Ta

Final year medical student at the Clinical School of Cambridge and Fourth year medical student at Norwich Medical School

Highly Commended – 2018

Bhavesh and Tanya have developed several medical education initiatives both in the East of England and nationally in the field of ENT. They started out by hosting a national student-led conference that attracted over 100 delegates, and plan to continue holding this conference every 2 years. Together, they formed the national student-led ENT collaborative ASCENT (Advancing Student/foundation doctor Collaborations in ENT), have developed an open-access online question bank and have launched the first simulation-based ENT course for medical students, which has been quality assured by ENT UK. We are sure that they both have fantastic careers in ENT ahead of them and can’t wait to see what they get up to next!

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Maja Kopczynska, Robert Lundin and Ben Sharif
Maja Kopczynska, Robert Lundin and Ben Sharif
Highly Commended – 2018

Maja, Robert and Ben developed the Welsh Digital Data Collection Platform, which has helped over 500 medical students take their first steps in research. The project lead to 5 publications, through which 73 students were recognised as named authors. Maja, Robert and Ben clearly have exciting research careers ahead of them and we congratulate them on their dedication to involving medical students in research.

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Karen Borges
Karen Borges

Fifth year medical student at King’s College London

Highly Commended – 2018

Karen recognised the need for more leadership and management training for healthcare students and went on to develop an innovative lecture series to educate her peers. She overcame a number of barriers to create a successful programme with good attendance that is now being expanded nationally. We look forward to seeing how this project grows in the future.

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Jess Leighton
Jess Leighton

Final year medical student at Newcastle University

Highly Commended – 2018

Jess has spent 12 months leading the medical education organisation Medisense. During her time with the project, she has increased output, improved engagement and developed a new partnership with another medical education organisation in order to increase the project’s reach. Jess has overcome personal barriers to successfully lead this organisation and we look forward to hearing about their future projects.

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Rucira Ooi
Rucira Ooi

Final year medical student at Cardiff University

Highly Commended – 2018

Rucira founded Cardiff Healthcare International Perspectives Society (CHIPS), a student society providing contacts and advice for organising placements, holding peer-led teaching events and providing support for international students. As well as her work with CHIPS, she has also tutored medical students in obstetrics emergencies and helped to host a national conference with the surgical society at Cardiff University. We wish her the best of luck with her future career.

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Adeel Ashfaq
Adeel Ashfaq

MBA Candidate at University of Cambridge Judge Business School

Winner – 2017

Adeel has been involved with an impressive array of projects that have had local, national and international impact. He has been involved with NGO work in Ghana and Haiti, and is now shifting focus towards the Syrian refugee crisis via projects involving refugee healthcare and the development of new technology for medical record keeping. Closer to home, Adeel mentors medical students who are taking their first tentative steps into research and is currently studying for an MBA, which he hopes will help him develop innovated health technology, as well as a seminar series on business in healthcare for his medical school.

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Christien Li Ka Hou
Christien Li Ka Hou

Fourth year medical student at Newcastle University

Winner – 2017

Christien’s contributions to medical education include the development of an international research mentorship programme, introduction of a new teaching modality for anatomy, involvement with teaching other medical students and development of a novel group clinic concept. He has overcome a number of barriers in order to implement his projects, including obtaining funding, demonstrating proof of concept and sustainability and gaining the support of other medical professionals. We are excited to see how his 3D printing project develops in the future.

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Kristen Davies
Kristen Davies

Final year medical student at Lancaster University

Runner Up – 2017

Kristen has helped to revolutionise the teaching at his medical school by founding a peer-led teaching society, creating a large question bank of exam-style questions, designing online learning resources and writing study materials for his fellow students. He is also making an impact on a national scale through his involvement with NSAMR and Becoming A Doctor. We applaud Kristen for his tireless work to improve the quality of medical education at his medical school and we are sure that many students will be thankful for the materials that he has developed.

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Stephanie DeBolles
Stephanie DeBolles

Final year medical student at the University of Michigan

Runner Up – 2017

Stephanie co-developed the Surgical Olympics Program, aiming to help more medical students pursue a career in academic surgery. She has also co-authored a textbook chapter and pioneered a Nutrition Seminar Series to educate her peers as well as being involved with a number of other medical education projects. We wish her every luck in her future career as a surgeon and pioneering student!

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Tanya Ta
Tanya Ta

Fourth year medical student at the University of East Anglia

Runner Up – 2017

Tanya founded a medical education society to promote peer-led teaching, which held 32 free events over the last 12 months. She has also been involved with a number of different medical education projects, including the development of an ENT app and the establishment of Project Cutting Edge – a national educational organisation providing students and junior doctors with the strategies and tools to successfully build a great surgical portfolio. She is a representative of her medical school on a number of national committees. We look forward to hearing about the success of her new society over the coming years.

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Yasser Al Omran
Yasser Al Omran

Foundation Year 2 doctor at Oxford University Hospitals

Runner Up – 2017

Yasser has been involved with a number of different medical education projects at local, national and international levels, including organising a national surgical conference and assisting with the organisation of two international conferences. He also has experience teaching on national courses and has authored two textbook chapters. We wish him every luck as he pursues his Masters in Medical Education.

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Nadine Abbas
Nadine Abbas

Final year medical student at Southampton University

Runner Up – 2017

Nadine has developed a medical education video series from scratch, entitled “Not Just a Medical Student”. Her inspirational videos have been watched by thousands of people and she has been invited to talk about her project abroad, as well as being recognised by several national awards. We’re excited to see what she gets involved with in the future.

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James Olivier
James Olivier

CT2 General Surgery at Musgrove Park Hospital

Highly Commended – 2017

James has been making contributions to medical education in his area for a number of years, particularly with his involvement in teaching surgical skills to students and peers at a variety of different conferences. He has already been awarded a number of prizes for his efforts and he is a worthy candidate for his recent nomination for Core Surgical Trainee of the Year in his Deanery.

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Callum Livingstone

Fourth year medical student at the University of Dundee

Highly Commended – 2017

Callum has shown initiative in further developing an existing widening access scheme, including giving talks, organising workshops and cofounding a student society at his medical school in order to reach more school students. His passion for encouraging pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds is inspiring.

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Matthew Byrne
Matthew Byrne

Final year medical student at Newcastle University

Winner – 2016

Matthew’s contributions to medical education range from teaching seminars, to founding societies and publishing a revision resource. He has noticed the gaps in medical school curriculums and has made it his task to fill these, teaching publishing, research, and business skills. How has he achieved all of this whilst balancing his time with his own studies and acting as Editor-in-Chief of a National medical student journal? We’ll never know… but one thing is for sure: it’s inspirational.

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James Kilgour and Shivali Fulchand
James Kilgour and Shivali Fulchand

Final year medical students at Cardiff University School of Medicine

Runner-up – 2016

James and Shivali also have the very impressive titles of Co-Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of ‘The British Student Doctor’: a medical student-led journal they conceptualised, developed, and have successfully taken to an international level!

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Eleanor Crossley
Eleanor Crossley

Foundation Year 2 doctor, currently working for the Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust

Runner-up – 2016

Eleanor’s dedication and innovations to optimise the educational experiences of medical students seem never-ending! Her contributions have hugely benefitted students at the Brighton and Sussex medical school but also nationally. Eleanor’s own thoughts on her work beautifully summarise the extent of the impact she has made: “I have thoroughly enjoyed my involvement in various aspects of medical education from teaching students directly, designing online resources and teaching programmes, to curriculum development.

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Richard Bartlett
Richard Bartlett

Studying undergraduate medicine at UCL as part of the MBPhD programme

Runner-up – 2016

Richard has been voted UCL PALS ‘top tutor’,  developed online educational resources, authored chapters for the ‘Unofficial Guide to medicine’ series, and re-stablished the National Undergraduate & Foundation Surgery Conference to provide a national platform for improved undergraduate surgical education. On top of this, he has also founded the incredibly successful Surgical Shadowing Scheme at UCL, and this demonstrates great potential to be developed into a wider national initiative.

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Todd Manning
Todd Manning

Urology Registrar Doctor and Honorary Research Fellow at Austin Health in Melbourne Australia

Runner-up – 2016

Dr Todd Galvin Manning is an Unaccredited Urology Registrar Doctor and Honorary Research Fellow at Austin Health in Melbourne Australia.  He is currently completing a Masters of Surgery at the University of Melbourne relating to the field of Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection and testicular cancer in young men. His contributions to medical education are extensive and include; mentoring individual students, writing chapters for the soon-to-be-published textbook “The Junior Doctor’s Survival Guide” and delivering lectures and anatomy demonstrations in both unofficial and official roles through the Austin Hospital, Monash University and The University of Melbourne.

He is an avid academic with multiple publications in high end journals and is the current president and co-founder of the innovative Young Urology Researchers Organisation (YURO). The formation of YURO is one of Todd’s proudest achievements to date, given his interest in medical education. It serves several roles, including the mentorship of young researchers attracted to the field of Urology and is an easily accessible platform for open communication and collaboration in research.

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Rachael Boyle
Rachael Boyle

Post-graduate student, currently in 5th year of Medicine at The University of Edinburgh

Runner-up – 2016

Rachael has recognised the difficulties that many students face in relation to the increasing costs of medical education, and has tackled this problem in her role in the Edinburgh Student Surgical Society by providing high quality, affordable tutorials. Rachael’s influence in practical skills training extends even further to encouraging volunteering with student support services and working as a Health Care Assistant – and her role in improving medical education doesn’t stop there.

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Olivia Smith
Olivia Smith

Final year of medical degree at The Hull York Medical School

Runner-up – 2016

Olivia has contributed widely at an international level to medical education by the publication of two books, one of which is even being translated into complex Chinese. Her achievements extend far beyond this though to novel research contributing new ideas to the evidence base that has been presented both nationally and internationally. Combined with her work to assist the education of the next cohort of medical students, Olivia’s contributions are wide-spanning and extensive.

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Philip Stather
Philip Stather

ST6 Vascular Surgery Specialty Trainee, having graduated from Leicester Medical School in 2007

Runner-up – 2016

Philip has become widely involved in education of the next generation of doctors and says his key message to junior doctors is “to add at least one thing to your CV from every job”. Throughout each stage of his own career he has made extensive contributions to medical teaching including through www.teachmesurgery.com and publishing two successful books.

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Rob Willmore
Rob Willmore

5th year Medical Student at the University of Bristol

Runner-up – 2016

After a shocking experience in his first year at medical school he realised a need to teach medical students some vital first aid skills. Facing setbacks and resistance from the university, he fought for a change and established his own first-aid society, training fellow students in life-saving skills. Not only has he now successfully achieved a change in the Bristol university curriculum to include BLS and first aid training, but he is on the road to making an international impact through his research indicating the dire need for change.

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Stella Sepping
Stella Sepping

Academic FY2, Swansea University Graduate Entry Medicine Programme.

Runner-up – 2016

Stella is an academic FY2 whose previous career was as a music teacher. She comments that she “loved to engage and inspire my students to not only excel in their subject, but to thoroughly enjoy it. When I embarked on a new career as a doctor I knew that I still had that passion to teach and mentor others (despite the very different subject matter that I now encountered!).” In her roles as Swansea University Medical School’s ambassador for the British Undergraduate Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (BUSOG) until her graduation, and now as an FY2 her focus is on medical education. Stella recognised that many students struggle to understand embryology and has helped thousands of people across the world by creating her very own youtube ‘claymation’ explaining the embryology of the heart.

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Rebecca Best
Rebecca Best

Fourth year student at Cardiff University, currently intercalating in Clinical Epidemiology

Runner-up – 2016

Rebecca says about herself “I am passionate about emergency medicine, global health and public health and hope to pursue a career in academic medicine that will allow me to combine hands on work with individual patients and clinical research at the population level”. Rebecca’s work has focused on medical education and she has recently set up a scheme in which medical students are trained to go into schools in the Cardiff area and educate the pupils on the Human Papillomavirus vaccination.

She is student lead for the ‘Prehospital and Emergency Medicine for Students’ (PEMS) scheme and as part of this has developed many excellent teaching sessions, resources and opportunities to help medical students feel more confident in their knowledge of acute care. Rebecca has also been involved with a number of other medical education projects, which she has published and presented all over the UK.

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Highly Commended -2016

  • Adam Wilson
  • Christopher Schultz
  • Akash Doshi U Bhalraam
  • Jamie D’Costa
  • Chris Graham
  • Kris Capper
  • Matt Walton
  • Abhijeet Tavare
  • Oliver Mowforth
  • Fady Anis
  • Gheed Mahir
Matthew Roche
Matthew Roche

Core Surgical Trainee Year One: London School of Surgery

Winner – 2015

As a medical student Matthew spotted an opportunity to use smartphone technology as an aid to medical education. As a junior doctor he taught himself to program using free resources, then wrote a series of OSCE tutorials for medical students. These were released worldwide and completely free as a mobile application named ‘OSCE Revision for Medical Students’.

Since the initial launch Matthew has continued to grow the app by recruiting medical students to write content, deploying onto new platforms and seeking sponsorship to ensure continued free provision. The app is now run as a not-for-profit company; it has been downloaded in one hundred countries and is used by 600 people every month.

Roberta Bullingham
Roberta Bullingham

Final Year Medical Student at Southampton

Winner – 2015

Roberta is a final year graduate-entry student at Southampton with a background in Veterinary Medicine. In her role as Academic President, she has set up a number of projects aiming to optimise the educational experience of medical students. Such initiatives included: a peer mentorship scheme for re-sitters, a SJT buddy scheme delivered by junior doctors across the region and the integration of simulated patient technology into acute care teaching.

Roberta has also helped deliver a peer mock OSCE, emergency care conference and surgical skills course at Southampton. She has presented at medical education conferences (AMEE and ILiaD) and co-authored in The Unofficial Guide to Surgery (2016).

Lauren Quinn
Lauren Quinn

Third year medical student, intercalating in the Clinical Sciences at Birmingham

Highly Commended – 2015

As President of the Birmingham Academic Medicine Society, who run a number of events to engage students in research, Lauren also has a keen interest in the field of medical education. This year they held their first Teacher Training day to give students the confidence and competence to teach their peers effectively.

Lauren applied for the Zeshan Qureshi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Medical Education to help raise awareness of all that can be achieved as a ‘mere medical student’ when you put your mind, heart and soul to the task!

Lauren’s advice would be to simply ask the formidable academics within your institution for their invaluable mentorship and guidance to make your goals a reality.

Rebecca Fisher
Rebecca Fisher

Fourth year medical student at the University of Edinburgh

Highly Commended – 2015

Rebecca is an aspiring surgeon and lead editor for a new student surgical textbook entitled ‘An Introduction to Surgery for Students’, due for publication in 2017. She leads a team of 70 enthusiastic students and surgeons, and applied for this prize as recognition for her team’s hard work.

She is also Women in Surgery Convenor at Edinburgh Student Surgical Society, running careers events and conducting research on career aspirations of Edinburgh students. In 2014 she also founded a popular Medic Mentor Programme at Malvern St James Girls School, Worcestershire.

Jemma Shanley
Jemma Shanley

Fourth year medical student at Bristol University

Highly Commended – 2015

Jemma’s background prior to coming back to study medicine, was in clinical pharmacy where she had experience in medicine and patient safety. When Jemma entered back into the classroom environment of medical education, she noticed there was a lack of pharmacology teaching and safe prescribing in the under graduate curriculum.

Jemma set up and founded the Renal and Endocrine Society at Bristol University – (REMs) whereby the society facilitates events and workshops for medical students such as “The Power of the Pen” providing teaching away from the classroom and more focused on the real day to day job.

Yashashwi Sinha
Yashashwi Sinha

Academic Foundation Year One Doctor working in London North West Healthcare NHS Trust

Highly Commended – 2015

Yash developed his interest in medical education as both a peer and widening-access mentor. He took on education-delivery roles as Chairman of the Keele Surgical Society and as an NHS Evidence Champion for NICE. Yash has been fortunate to deliver international presentations and publish on medical education topics.

As a student Yash established the non-profit enterprise ‘Medics Teaching Medics’ which continues to work on creating courses focused on transition periods of education, e.g. final year student to junior doctor. The enterprise has delivered four courses so far, all being well-received, ranging from local to national and raised £400 for charities in the process. Yash applied for the award to substantiate his achievements but also to raise the profile of Medics Teaching Medics.

Andrew Mooney
Andrew Mooney

Third year medical student at the University of Glasgow

Highly Commended – 2015

Having entered Medicine as a mature student, Andrew Mooney developed a passion for helping students in a similar position, which lead to him authoring ‘The SWAPWest Medical Applicant’s Handbook’.

Having also won a ‘Truth About Youth Award’ for voluntary work with cancer and MS patients, Andrew is now involved in the Adult Learner’s Network, providing support to mature students at Glasgow University, and is also taking part in a psychiatry academic mentorship programme.

Andrew is currently creating a textbook and website on psychiatry for undergraduate medical students, through which he hopes to help improve student engagement with the specialty.

Dominique Lentchou Mbiadjeu
Dominique Lentchou Mbiadjeu

Final year medical student at Norwich Medical School

Highly Commended – 2015

Dominique became involved in the Anatomy Drawing Society at Norwich Medical School. The idea of an Anatomy Society had never been introduced before hence it was an innovative idea. The society also included a drawing aspect, which was aimed at students with a more visual learning style.

We had a life model at each session and a drawing time where students would be encouraged to draw various anatomical structures on their sheet using the life model as inspiration. Initially Dominique was the Secretary then Event Coordinator and finally President. Alongside this society, she has been involved in Peer Assisted Learning, facilitated clinical skills session for 3 years and tutored several medical students.

Benjamin Beska
Benjamin Beska

Fifth year intercalating medical student at Newcastle University

Highly Commended – 2015

Ben is intercalating into an MRes Cardiovascular Science and has interests in academic cardiology and medical education. He has taught actively as a committee member of the Newcastle Medical Education Society and with colleagues developed a novel adapted round-robin revision technique, which will be presented at the Academy of Medical Educators Annual Meeting 2016. Earlier this year he was short listed for the Sidney Linton Prize 2015 in Medical Education and Cardiology. He has written academic book chapters on interventional cardiology and is a student textbook reviewer for Wiley-Blackwell.

Ben is a member of the Association for the Study of Medical Education and is involved in multiple medical education research projects, both within the university and within the Trust, and is currently developing a new tool to measure the quality of the postgraduate learning environment.

Alexander Yao
Alexander Yao

First year Academic Foundation Doctor working in Newcastle with an interest in Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery

Winner – 2014

In his clinical years at Imperial College London, Alex founded the National ENT Undergraduates and Foundation Trainees Society (NEUFTS) to address the shortfall of ENT exposure at undergraduate level.

With the NEUFTS members he developed the website containing ENT educational resources, career and elective information. He has established a network with representatives in over 15 deaneries, and over 15 medical schools. He has worked with ENTUK to establish a new ENT undergraduate curriculum. He is currently writing an official undergraduate handbook and app for ENTUK along with members of the society.

NEUFTS has a new identity endorsed by ENTUK- SFO UK (Students and Foundation trainees in Otolaryngology, UK) with a modern, new website at  http://sfo.entuk.org/

He applied for the award to formalise the achievements of the society and colleagues.

Ollie Jones
Ollie Jones

Clinical medical student at the University of Leicester

Winner – 2014

Ollie has a keen interest in medico-politics and medical education, and is a member of The Association for the Study of Medical Education. In addition, Ollie has a research interest in the genetic basis of myocardial infarction, and is currently completing his intercalated BSc degree in this area.

Ollie created TeachMeAnatomy.info in February 2012. The aim was to create a high quality anatomy resource, with an emphasis on design as well as content. TeachMeAnatomy now contains over 300 articles, written by collaborative team of 50 authors – containing medical students, junior doctors and anatomists. The website currently receives over 600,000 page views a month from locations all over the world. Ollie applied for the “Zeshan Qureshi Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education Award” to get recognition on a national scale, and to gain some additional publicity for the resource.

Ollie has since produced a surgical resource aimed at medical students and junior doctors – http://TeachMeSurgery.com

Katherine Lattey
Katherine Lattey

Final year medical student at Brighton and Sussex Medical School

Highly Commended – 2014

Katherine will soon be taking up a foundation post at Northwick Park, North West Thames Deanery. She has taught wherever she could at medical school as part of near-peer teaching programmes and at a broadening access to medicine course. She also completed a Masters of Research in Maternal and Fetal Health as an intercalated degree.

Katherine is a member of the Association for the Study of Medical Education and in July 2014 presented a poster on behalf of the Unofficial Guide to Medicine at the Annual Scientific meeting in Brighton. This was entitled “Junior doctor and student led ‘near-peer’ medical textbooks: a novel approach to a medical publishing group”. The poster won the student prize in this conference and received excellent feedback on the day.

Katrina Mason
Katrina Mason

Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Blizard Institute of Cell and Molecular Science, Barts & The London School of Medicine and Dentistry

Highly Commended – 2014

Katrina Mason is due to start her higher surgical training in Otorhinolaryngology in London in October 2015. She has helped broaden access to the surgical profession by extending the reach of the Surgery in Schools workshops offered by The Royal College of Surgeons (RCSEng) to boys’ schools, as this was previously a female-only initiative.

She has also improved formal relations between students and the RCSEng by securing medical student representation on the Opportunities in Surgery Committee. Alongside arranging regional and national post-graduate educational courses Katrina is currently co-editor of a core surgical textbook, “The Unofficial Guide to Surgery (2015).”

Louis Hainsworth
Louis Hainsworth

Junior Doctor at Yeovil District Hospital

Highly Commended – 2014

Louis Hainsworth is very passionate about medical education, in particular promoting student led research and increasing students understanding of research and publishing. Along with this he is currently undertaking a Masters degree at the University of Edinburgh.

Louis is currently Deputy Editor of Res Medica, a student-led peer reviewed journal of the Royal Medical Society. The journal aims to promote academic writing and publication of medical student work and to involve students in all stages of the peer review process and on the editorial board. The journals is viewed globally and receives article submissions from 4 continents. Louis applied for the “Zeshan Qureshi Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education Award” to further promote Res Medica along with highlighting the importance of students being involved with research.

Shahab Shaid
Shahab Shaid

Third year medical student at St George’s University of London

Highly Commended – 2014

Shahab writes anatomy content for kenhub.com and teachmeanatomy.com. An anatomy demonstrator at St George’s University as well as a clinical skills tutor, his sessions are very well received. Shahab has delivered three revision lectures to first and second year students on ‘Anatomy’ and ‘The Cerebral Blood Supply’. All three were very well received.

Shahab was involved in a study that focused on developing a curriculum for ureteroscopy and cystoscopy simulation training.The paper has been accepted in Surgical Endoscopy. He teaches surgical skills on the Surgical BSc at KCL. The Surgical BSc that is being developed will implement many of his ideas. Shahab applied for this award for recognition of his achievements in medical education.

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