The Turner-Warwick lecturer scheme offers a platform for resident doctors to share their unique work and research and to support them in their professional and personal development.
We are always looking for ways to develop this initiative and we've summarised some key updates to the 2025-2026 lecture scheme below. We hope the changes will allow us to better support individual lecturers and offer winners the national recognition they deserve.
Key updates:
The Turner-Warwick lecturer scheme will now run across two years:
- Year 1: applications and judging
- Year 2: lectures and winner profiling.
Three lecturers will be appointed in the following categories:
- Turner-Warwick lecturer for clinical research
- Turner-Warwick lecturer for achievements in medical education
- Turner-Warwick lecturer for quality improvement
You'll need to be an RCP subscribing member to apply.
We've also updated some of the key benefits and prizes, including the opportunity to present digitally, and to attend the RCP Harveian Oration and dinner (2026).
Read more about the scheme
2025-2026 key dates
2025
- April: Open for submissions
- July: Closed for submissions
- October: Winners announced
2026
- February: Digital lecture is released on RCP Player
- March - December: Face to face lecture is delivered at an Update in medicine conference
If you'd like to be the first to hear when an application form is available to download, please register your interest. In the meantime, we recommend you review the eligibility criteria and helpful guidance below.
Register your interest
'The Turner-Warwick lecturer scheme has undeniably been a catalyst for my development, fostering my personal and professional growth for the next steps in my clinical academic research career.'
Dr Stuart Maitland
Turner-Warwick lecturer 2023
How to apply
Applicants need to submit an abstract of the proposed lecture, which should be based on their work in one of the following areas (maximum 250 words, excluding references):
- clinical research
- successful quality improvement programme (QIP)
- achievements in medical education
The lecture must be designed to be of educational value to a general medical audience and should include an evidence-based overview of the topic.
Abstracts will need to be submitted via application form. You will also be required to submit a supporting statement form from your consultant or SAS colleague. Both forms will be available to download once the scheme opens for applications.
Please see the FAQs for further information.
Eligibility
This prestigious scheme is open to RCP subscribing resident doctors only. Non-subscribing members will need to become a member to submit their application, and remain subscribing members throughout the duration of their lectureship if successful.
Resident doctor physicians at IMT, MTI, ACCS-AM or ST3-7 level (or equivalent*) are invited to apply. To be eligible you should not be expecting to complete training (i.e. obtain your CCT) before 31 December 2026. Applicants should be working in an RCP recognised medical specialty within the UK.
*Locally employed doctors working within an RCP recognised medical specialty at equivalent training grades, are also encouraged to apply.
What makes a successful Turner-Warwick application?
Dr Adrian Jennings, clinical lead for the Turner-Warwick scheme and consultant physician in King’s Lynn shares his thoughts on what makes a good topic for submissions and what the judges are looking for.
'Turner-Warwick lectures can be based around a resident doctor's clinical research, quality improvement project (QIP) or achievements in medical education.
Judges will expect the topic of the proposed lecture to be relevant to a wide audience and not just those in a single specialty. The lecture itself should include an evidence-based overview of the clinical topic, before going on to describe the resident doctor's research, QIP or educational achievements.
Judges will be assessing the extent to which the lecture will impact physicians’ knowledge and/or practice in a clinical topic or medical education. If the abstract describes clinical research they are likely to expect some statistical analyses in the abstract. For a lecture describing a QIP or achievements in medical education, they are likely to be looking for a significant beneficial effect and whether there is evidence of a sustained effect or, if not, whether there are plans describing how sustained improvement might be achieved.'
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