Offering a platform to share their work and research, the Turner-Warwick lecturer scheme underlines the value resident doctors bring to healthcare and gives encouragement to our future physicians. The scheme runs across two years, allowing us to work closely with winners and foster skills like public speaking and disseminating information to diverse medical audiences.
Key features of this national competition
The scheme re-opens for applications in April 2025. While there have been a few changes to our eligibility criteria, timelines and categories, the purpose of this scheme remains to support, profile and develop resident doctors and to offer a unique platform to share their achievements.
We hope the changes will allow us to better support individual lecturers and offer winners the national recognition they deserve.
Prizes
- Appointed lecturers are invited to present at one of our 2026 Update in medicine conferences - this is a brilliant opportunity to reach beyond your specialty or field of research and present alongside more senior colleagues
- Opportunity to record a digital presentation for RCP Player, allowing you time to develop your lecture, receive feedback, and refine your digital presentation skills
- Have your work considered by the editorial teams of the RCP journals with the potential of expanding into full journal articles and publication in one of our peer reviewed journals, Clinical Medicine or the Future Healthcare Journal
- Receive an award plaque from the RCP president
- You'll be profiled in RCP's Commentary magazine - offering another opportunity to share your work and connect with potential future collaborators
- An invitation to the RCP Harveian Oration and dinner in 2026
- Professional photography - you will receive professional images of your lecture and plaque award presentation
Who was Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick?
Professor Dame Margaret Turner-Warwick was elected as the first female president of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1989, 471 years after its foundation – one of her many remarkable achievements. At one stage in her career she was the only female professor of medicine in the UK and she is recognised as a principal architect of the modern specialty of respiratory medicine.
By offering resident doctors a platform to share their pioneering research, we hope to honour Professor Dame Margaret's tradition of nurturing upcoming talent in our profession.
Contact us
The Turner-Warwick lecturer scheme is run and delivered by the RCP Regional team, for more information, contact Turner.Warwick@rcp.ac.uk