Medals

The Marshall Medal

The Marshall Medal is awarded every three years.  It is awarded for outstanding service to the Association of Clinical Pathologists  and to clinical pathology.  Normally the medal will only be awarded to members of the Association though, exceptionally, the award may be made to a non-member.  Current Honorary and Assistant Officers will not be eligible for the award.

The medal will be presented by the President to the recipient at an Association or Council Dinner.

The Marshall Medal is named after Diki Marshall

“Clinical pathologists in Great Britain owe more to Diki Marshall, the retiring Chairman of Council, than perhaps any other individual in the last 30 years.  From the very inception of the Health Service he has vigilantly guarded our interests. The earliest battle in which Diki took part, and which was hard fought and won, was to establish that pathologists were graded as consultants rather than S.H.M.Os.  Since then he has watched over the development of the pathology services and those that work in them with an eagle eye.  Every statement relating to the specialty issued by Government departments and other organisations has been subjected to his expert scrutiny to make sure that it contained nothing that would be detrimental to pathology or to pathologists.  Every document is dissected with the same accuracy and care that he would devote to an autopsy or to a surgical specimen.  He has always combined this attention to detail with a farsightedness which few can match and Council will never be the same without him.  He has been President of the Association, Honorary Treasurer and Chairman of Council, and none have given the Association greater service.”

Recent recipients include:

Dr Geraldine Markey
Dr Nigel Stanbridge
Dr E Hugh Mackay
Dr John Gough
Dr Emyr Benbow
Dr Mike Galloway
Dr Suzy Lishman
Dr Marion Wood

The Dyke Foundation Lecture & Medal

The Dyke Foundation Lecture is given every three years at the National Scientific Meeting by an eminent member of the Pathology community.  The lecturer is also awarded the Dyke Foundation Medal. The lecture and medal commemorate the founder of the Association, Dr Sidney Dyke.

Recent recipients include:

Professor Sir J A Muir Gray
Professor Andrew Wyllie
Professor Sir Dillwyn Williams
Professor S Moncada
Professor Sir David Weatherall
Dr Bridget Wilkins
Dr Ian Frayling
Profession Ian Tomlinson

The Brumfitt Medal

Professor William Brumfitt was a member of the Association of Clinical Pathologists (ACP) from 1958 until his death in 2020. He made a sizeable bequeathal to the ACP, which has now been received. Council is mindful that we already have medals to recognise outstanding contributions to the Association of Clinical Pathologists (Marshall Medal) and to Pathology (Dyke Medal). We are delighted to recognise Professor Brumfitt’s contribution to the Association with the creation of the Brumfitt Medal, which will recognise and reward excellence in teaching at ACP meetings and events.  All those who organise and/or deliver teaching for the ACP, whether this be at a meeting or in an ACP webinar, will automatically be considered. The Brumfitt Medal is being launched in 2022 (considering teaching delivered throughout that calendar year) and was first awarded in June 2023.

Award Frequency
The Brumfitt Medal is awarded annually.

Award Value
The Brumfitt Medal comprises a medal with the ACP Logo on one face and “ACP Brumfitt Medal” and the year of award on the other. The Medal is awarded at the Summer ACP Council Dinner to which the winner and their partner will be invited. The award includes the cost of the winner and their partner travelling to and attending the dinner (from within Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland) plus one night’s hotel accommodation.

Award Criteria
• The Brumfitt Medal recognises excellence in pathology teaching organised and delivered at Association of Clinical Pathologists’ educational events and meetings, whether delivered in person or online.
• Delegates at all such events will be asked to provide the ACP member organising the meeting and all speakers (regardless of ACP membership status) with feedback on the quality of the event/teaching session on a 5-point scale of 1 (Poor) to 5 (Excellent).
• In addition, when providing feedback, delegates will be asked whether they wish to nominate any speaker/organiser for the Brumfitt Medal.
• The ACP Council will consider the average feedback scores attained by each speaker in the preceding calendar year at the Spring meeting of Council.
• Council will award the Brumfitt Medal to the person with the highest average score.
• In the event of a tie, the person with the highest score who also has the highest number of nominations for the Medal will win the award.
• A person can be awarded the Brumfitt Medal only once in any given three-year period, but there is no other limit to how often a person may be awarded this medal.

Notes
1. In the event that the winner either cannot attend to receive their award, or if the winner is outside Great Britain, Northern Ireland and Ireland, the medal will be couriered to them.
2. There is no alternate cash value to the medal and associated travel, accommodation and dinner costs.

Recent recipients include:

Dr Tariq El-Shanawany
Dr Bridget Wilkins