School of Medicine

Direct Entry Medicine

Programme/year Award name Awarded to
FY Ethna Gaffney Award and First place The student who achieves the best aggregate mark across all modules in Foundation Year. 
FY Teamwork Award FY The students who obtain the highest mark for teamwork project in FY.
FY Class Contribution Award for FY The student who has contributed most to class cohesion, voted by their class.
Year 1 First Place Year 1 The student who achieves 1st place overall based upon aggregate marks across all modules in Year 1.
Year 1 Norman Rae Award in Health, Behaviour & Society The student who achieves highest mark in a dissertation competition in the area of behaviour sciences.
Year 1 Upjohn Award in Molecular Medicine The student who achieves highest mark in a dissertation competition in the area of molecular medicine.
Year 1 Kane Award in Neurobiology The student who achieves the highest mark in a dissertation competition in the area of neurobiology.
Year 1 Evatt Memorial Award The top performing student in a viva voce exam.
Year 1 Team Ethos Award Y1 The student who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to promoting and encouraging team ethos within the teaching and learning environment in Year 1.
Year 1 Leadership Y1 The student in a learning community who demonstrates best leadership skills in Year 1.
Year 2 First Place Year 2
The student who achieves 1st place overall based upon aggregate marks across all modules in Year 2.
Year 2 Stoney Memorial Award
The top performing student in a viva voce examination.
Year 2 Barker Dissection Award
The student who achieves the highest grade in an anatomical dissection based on a region of clinical importance.
Year 2 Pathology Award
The top performing student in a viva voce examination, based on pathology.
Year 2 Ellen Moorhouse Prize in Clinical Microbiology
The top performing student in an essay competition, based on microbiology. Where academic performance is equal, a viva examination will take place.
Year 2 Team Ethos Award Y2
The student who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to promoting and encouraging team ethos within the teaching and learning environment in Year 2. 
Year 2 Leadership Y2 The student in a learning community who demonstrates best leadership skills in Year 2. 
Year 3 First Place Year 3 The student who achieves 1st place overall based upon aggregate marks across all modules in Year 3.
Year 3 Tropical Medicine Award The top performing student in a viva voce examination, based on Tropical Medicine
Year 3 Team Ethos Award Y3 The student who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to promoting and encouraging team ethos within the teaching and learning environment in Year 3.
Year 3 Leadership Y3 The student in a learning community who demonstrates best leadership skills in Year 3.
Year 3 Abraham Colles Award The top performing student in a clinical examination, based on orthopaedics.
Year 4 General Practice Module Excellence Award (Dr John O’Leary Award The student who achieves the highest overall mark in the general practice module.
Year 4 Paediatrics & Child Health Award – First Place The student who achieves 1st place in all components of paediatrics and child health.
Year 4 MacClancy Award in Neonatal Medicine The student who achieves the highest mark in the MED4 neonatal medicine examination.
Year 4 H. MacNaughton-Jones Award for first place in Obstetrics The student who achieves 1st place in the final examination in obstetrics and gynaecology.
Year 4 Captain Harry Godfrey Massey-Miles donation for Obstetrics The student at the Rotunda Hospital Dublin who is deemed to have performed best clinically overall during their clinical rotation.
Year 4 John McAuliffe-Curtin Award in Otorhinolaryngology The student who achieves 1st place in otorhinolaryngology.
Year 4 The Psychiatry Essay Award The student who obtains the highest mark in the psychiatry essay.
Year 4 The Dr Tom Lynch Award The student who achieves first place in the clinical component of the psychiatry exam, which is the score of CASC and video exam combined.
Year 4 The Hilary Standish-Barry Award The student who achieves overall first place in the psychiatry module (including the marks of the Psychiatry Progress Tests during MED4 –TBC)
Year 4 Team Ethos Award Y4 The student who demonstrates an outstanding commitment to promoting and encouraging team ethos within the teaching and learning environment.
Year 4 Leadership Award in Year 4 The student in a learning community who demonstrates best leadership skills in Year 4.
Year 4 First Place Year 4 The student who achieves 1st place overall based upon aggregate marks across all modules in Year 4.

Graduate Entry Medicine

Programme/year Award name Awarded to
Year 1 Award for 1st Place (Year 1) The student who achieves overall first place based on aggregate marks across all modules in year 1 exams.
Year 1 Teamwork Award (Year 1) The student who achieves the highest aggregate score for teamwork in assessments in GEM Year 1.
Year 1 Essay Award The student who achieves the highest grade in a dissertation competition.
Year 1 The Sayed-Hanson Memorial Award The student who obtains 1st place in a viva voce exam. 
Year 2 Award for 1st Place (Year 2) The student who achieves 1st place overall based upon aggregate marks in the Year 2 exams.
Year 2 Leadership Year 2 The student, in a learning community, who demonstrates best leadership skills in GEM Year 2.
Connolly Hospital Award
James Connolly Endocrine Award The student who achieves the highest marks in a viva exam to which the student's achieving the highest marks in the endocrine component of the written exam are invited.
Year 2 Barker Dissection Award The student who achieves the highest grade in an anatomical dissection based on a region of clinical importance.
Year 2 Research Award Year 2 A student who demonstrates best creative and critical thinking and problem-solving skills in research in GEM Year 2.
Year 2 Dr Marie Harte Cardiology Award The student who achieves 1st place in an essay competition on a specific aspect of cardiology in Year 2.