UCC School of Medicine students receive HHS Awards

9 Nov 2016

The Dean, Professor Mary Horgan, and Faculty and all the staff  of the School of Medicine congratulate the large number of UCC Medical students receiving awards at the NUI Dr. Henry Hutchinson Stewart Medical Scholarships Award Ceremony in Dublin on 9 November, 2016.  These awards are competed for annually by students and graduates of NUI constituent universities (UCC, UCD, NUI Galway and Maynooth University) and other NUI member institutions including RCSI and NCAD. The awards honour and support scholars of distinction at every stage of their academic studies. These achievements were also acknowledged by the Dean at the recent School of Medicine Prizegiving Ceremony.

The following UCC Medical students excelled in both Clinical and Medical Science disciplines in this year’s competition:

General Practice

Scholarship (1^st prize)        -              Emily Rutherford

3^rd Prize                                -             Conal Houstoun

Medical Microbiology

Scholarship (1^st prize)       -              Sinéad Flanagan

3^rd Prize                               -              Alan Corkery

Ophthamology

2^nd Prize                               -              Brian O’Tuama

3^rd prize                                -              Robert Whiriskey

Pathology

3^rd Prize                                -              Sinead O’Riordan

Physiology

2^nd Prize                               -              Wei Qi Vanessa Chan

3^rd Prize                                -              Cara Pray

 Psychiatry

Scholarship (1^st Prize)         -              Jacqueline Sheehan

Surgery

Scholarship (1^st Prize)          -              Laura Walsh

3^rd Prize                                 -              David McDonnell