AMA Queensland Student Awards

Dr Emily Shao presented the AMA Memorial Prize to Lachlan Rowe, the William Nathaniel Robertson Prize to Brianna Russell and the Harold Plant Memorial Prize to John Cavaye. 

Lilian Cooper Prize (University of Queensland)
The student gaining the highest overall achievement in the four years of the MBBS program

Sivagowri Somasundaram and Isabella Brainsbury

Established in 1991 and maintained by an annual gift from the Queensland Medical Women’s Society in memory of Lilian Cooper, the first woman registered as a medical practitioner in Queensland.

John Bostock Prize in Psychiatry (University of Queensland)
Year 3 MBBS student - greatest proficiency in the progressive summative assessment in the mental health rotation in year 3

Sumana Cikaluru

Established in 1961 as a tribute to Research Professor John Bostock, formerly Senior Psychiatrist to the Brisbane Hospital and Research Professor in Medical Psychology at the University of Queensland, and maintained by the Queensland Branch of the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatry.

William Nathaniel Robertson Prize (University of Queensland)
MBBS student - Highest mark in year 4 MSAT

Brianna Russell

Founded in 1937 by the Queensland Branch of the British Medical Association in recognition of the valuable services rendered to the medical profession by Dr W N Robertson, Vice-Chancellor of the University 1926-1938. The prize was augmented in 1979 by a gift from his daughter Clara Joan Roe.

AMA Memorial Prize (University of Queensland)
Awarded to the student with the highest GPA in Years 3 and 4 of the MBBS program

Lachlan Rowe and Isabella Brainsbury

Harold Plant Memorial Prize (University of Queensland)
Most worthy on the basis of scholastic attainments, a high standard of character and service in student activities and a fondness for and success in sport.

John Cavaye

Founded in 1941 by the Queensland Branch of the British Medical Association with the aid of Colonel C F Plant as a memorial to his son, the late Harold Plant.

AMA Queensland Children’s Health Prize (Griffith University) 
Awarded to the most outstanding student with the highest grade in the Children’s Health Block of the Bachelor of Medicine / Bachelor of Surgery.

Madeline Dick

The AMA Queensland Children’s Health Prize was established with Griffith University in 2012.