The ENTSHO.com Prize 2024
The Prize
The ENTSHO.com team has set up this Prize to recognise the best contribution by a UK or RoI junior doctor to evidence-based ENT clinical practice.
This is a great portfolio and professional development opportunity for those interested in a career in ENT:
A national postgraduate prize exclusive to early years doctors (‘F1s and SHOs’)
A free place on an ENTSHO.com/ExcellENT craft course
Prize money of £200 towards another course or academic meeting of your choice
Eligibility: People
Entry is open to those who fulfil all entry criteria as of the closing date for the Prize:
You must be a currently registered doctor with a licence to practise
You must be currently in Foundation or Core training or equivalent, or in an SHO-grade fellow post in the UK or RoI; you must not be working as a middle grade or registrar or equivalent
You must be within five years of obtaining your primary medical qualification (forces doctors can discount general duties time)
Eligibility: Manuscripts
Most manuscripts reporting significant novel work are eligible for consideration, whether published or unpublished. Case reports, letters to the editor, conference abstracts and similar are not eligible.
Full information on eligibility and regulations will be available on the prize submission page when it opens.
Entries
Submissions for the 2024 Prize are now open. Please submit here.
Enquiries
office@entsho[dot]com
Panel
Manuscripts are assessed by a panel of judges, including:
Miss Kat Davies, Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon
Mr Andy Kinshuck, Consultant Laryngologist
Mr Ananth Vijendren, Consultant Otologist
Mr Tom Jacques, Consultant Rhinologist
Miss Anne Markey, ENT Specialty Registrar
Prizewinners
2022 Winner: William Flynn - Advancing head and neck cancer following the COVID-19 pandemic
2021 Winner: Tobias James - Platelet function testing in patients with post-operative tonsillectomy bleeding may be a useful identifier of inherited platelet function disorders
2020 Winner: Dorota Chudek - The effect of fibrin sealant glue in reducing post-operative collections following parotidectomy
2019 Winner: Sara Timms - Oromucosal benzydamine spray as an analgesic adjunct following paediatric tonsillectomy: a prospective study and literature review; Runner-up: Elliot Heward - Microbiology and antimicrobial susceptibility of otitis externa: a changing pattern of antimicrobial resistance
2018 Winner: Dave Selwyn - When to refer: Validating the Evidence‐based Acute Otitis Externa Referral Score (EARS). Our experience of 287 cases of otitis externa in primary care
2017 Winner: Chris Metcalfe - Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging for residual and recurrent cholesteatoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis
2016 Winner: Theofano Tikka - Refining the head and neck cancer referral guidelines: a two-centre analysis of 4715 patients; Runner-Up: Jonathan Abbas - The BeSMART (Best Supportive Management for Adults Referred with Tonsillopharyngitis) multi-centre observational study
2015 Winner: John Hardman - Tympanoplasty for chronic tympanic membrane perforation in children: systematic review and meta-analysis