The Marshall Prize in Surgical Training, in conjunction with the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, was established to encourage surgical trainees within Monash Health to pursue basic or clinical investigative projects.
Previous winners
- 2024 Dr Tran Ngoc An Huynh
- 2023 Dr Yen Kylie Lim
- 2022 Dr Assia Comella
- 2021 Dr Asiri Arachchi
- 2020 Dr Fiona Pavan
- 2019 Dr Julie Flynn
- 2018 Dr Damir Ljuhar
- 2017 Dr Jeremy Wiseman
- 2016 Dr Jasmina Kevric
- 2015 Mr Mithra Sritharan
- 2014 Dr Richard Woodford
- 2013 Paul Stimpson
- 2012 Naseem Mirbagheri
- 2011 Sameh Farah
- 2010 Tony De Sousa
- 2009 Brendan Thomas
- 2008 Chilton Chong
- 2007 Amal Abou-Hamden
- 2006 Saifulla Syed
- 2005 Sarah Olson
- 2004 Daniel Moon
- 2003 Naveen Somia
- 2002 Abraham Stephanopoulos
History
In 2002 the Marshall Prize in Surgical Training was established to encourage surgical trainees within Monash Health to pursue basic or clinical investigative projects. The Marshall Prize for Surgery was named after Emeritus Professor Vernon Charles Marshall and his brothers the late Robert and Donald to recognise their contribution to Surgery. This is a unique situation in Australia where all three surgeons and bothers worked at Prince Henry's Hospital at the same time from 1975. Vernon Marshall was head of Monash University Department of Surgery and General Surgery; Donald Marshall was Head of Plastic Surgery and Robert Marshall was Head of Gastrointestinal Surgery.
Call for Abstracts
Eligible trainees are invited to submit an abstract summarizing the project including the following components - introduction, aims, methods, results and conclusions. The abstract must not exceed 250 words on a single sheet of A4 paper.
Applications should be submitted electronically to: Professor Julian Smith, julian.smith@monash.edu and a signed copy delivered to: Mrs. Mira Petruzalek, Department of Surgery (MMC), Level 5 E Block, Monash Medical Centre, 246 Clayton Road, Clayton, Vic 3168.
Up to six finalists will be selected on the basis of their abstract submission and invited to present the results of their project at the Marshall prize Symposium as part of the Professorial Surgical Rounds Program.
The venue and time of the Marshall Prize Symposium will be notified in due course.
The format of the symposium paper will be a 10-minute verbal presentation of the project followed by 5 minutes of discussion.
The winner will be decided by a panel of adjudicators, some of which will be invited from outside Monash Health. Points will be allocated based on criteria such as originality of hypothesis, project planning and design, study methods, data analysis, conclusions, abstract content, quality of presentation and discussion.
The winning trainee will receive a cash prize and his/her name will be placed on an honour board to be located within the Department of Surgery.
