The following medical students and sixth form students have been awarded bursaries this year:
 | Emilia Lawden Prize awarded: Medico Chirurgical Society Gold Award Title of talk: A Quantitative MRI study of the motor system degeneration in ALS |
 | Teodora-Maria Purice Prize awarded: Medico-Chirurgical Society Silver Award Title of talk: The Usability of an Electronic Patient Record A Service Evaluation Investigating the Usability of MediSoft as an Ophthalmology Electronic Patient Record at the Sussex Eye Hospital |
 | Rhiannon Herold Prize awarded: Medico-Chirurgical Society Silver Award Title of talk: Investigating How Attentional Failures Impair Simple and Complex Cognitive Tasks. |
The Council of Brighton and Sussex Medico-Chirurgical Society is pleased to award three annual prizes of £50: one for current medical students, one for sixth formers or other students who are applying to study medicine in the forthcoming year and one for members of the BSMS Brightmed programme. Members of Brightmed are welcome to apply for both student prizes. All applicants must be aged sixteen or over.
Candidates should submit a reflective piece of no more than one side of A4 based on one of the Brighton Med-Chi talks that they have attended in the previous six months. The piece should explore why the talk interested them, how it affected their thinking and how it might influence them in the future. Student should only make one submission. Please send submissions to Ms Kate Hopkinson () as a word document with your name, date of birth and the prize(s) you are applying for on page one and your submission on page two. We normally post prize winners’ names and submissions on our website. Please state on page one of your submission if you do not wish this to happen. Submissions should be made by 1st June.