About the Prize
The applicant must submit a case report and review of the literature of a standard suitable for publication that goes beyond basic morphological and immunohistochemical diagnostics, including molecular and other ancillary diagnostic tests to give a significant learning opportunity to medical students, pathology trainees and some pathology consultants.
Prize: £100 and the opportunity to present the case as an oral presentation at the next Joint Summer Meeting with the BDIAP, for which the winner is offered free registration.
Who is eligible?
Trainee Society Members.
Deadline Date
30 September
Scoring criteria
Understanding, novelty, use of ancillary tests, images, appropriate depth of information, style, clarity, follows instructions.
Case reports already accepted for publication on the closing date of the competition are not eligible.
Case Report Prize Winners
2020
Trainee - Dr Mohammed Nimir, Coventry: Cutaneous Angiosarcoma - A Significantly Short Duration from Presentation to Terminal Illness
Undergraduate - Ms Maiar Elghobashy, Birmingham - Unusual Presentation of Mammary Calciphylaxis in a Patient on Longstanding Renal Dialysis
2019
Trainee - Dr Philip Macklin, Oxford: A Complex Case of a Mediastinal Mass in a 32-year-old Female
2017
Trainee - Dr Gemma Petts, Manchester: The Importance of Integrated Molecular and Histopathological Assessment in Dystrophinopathies
Undergraduate - Christian Slater, Manchester: Congenital Neuroblastoma - When it Doesn't All Add Up
2016
Trainee - Dr Richard Colling, Oxford: The Role of Clonality Studies in Diagnostic Molecular Haematopathology
Undergraduate - Roshni C Mansfield, Oxford: A First for Oxford Neuropathology
2015
Trainee - Dr Isabel Woodman, Kent: Two Cases of EBV Lymphoproliferative Lesions in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Undergraduate - Katie Milne, Oxford: A Cautionary Tale of Clonality