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Professor Joan Bicknell Medical Student Essay Prize 2026
Royal College of Psychiatrists
UK-wide
An annual essay prize for UK undergraduate medical students reflecting on direct contact with a person or people with a learning disability during their studies.
- Primary activity
- Essay Prize
- Primary specialty
- Psychiatry
- Activity tags
- Essay Prize, Competition
- Specialty tags
- Psychiatry, Academic Medicine, Medical Education
- Deadline
- 1 Dec 2026
- Event date
- Not listed
- Date status
- Confirmed
- Eligibility
- Any undergraduate medical student in the UK. The essay must be no more than 3,000 words and concern a study module or project involving direct contact with someone with a learning disability.
- Cost
- Free to enter.
- Funding
- £250 prize plus a subsidised place for the winner at the Faculty's annual Spring meeting.
- Source type
- Royal College
- Last checked
- Not listed
Verified source
RCPsych Faculty of Intellectual Disability Psychiatry
https://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/members/your-faculties/intellectual-disability-psychiatry/prizes-and-bursariesThe official RCPsych Faculty page states that the prize runs annually, is open to UK undergraduate medical students, is worth £250, has a 3,000-word limit and closes on 1 December; 1 December 2026 is the next annual deadline after this batch date.
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