{"id":454,"date":"2012-07-31T08:40:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/?p=454"},"modified":"2018-05-29T10:38:13","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T09:38:13","slug":"london-gold-medal-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/2012\/07\/31\/london-gold-medal-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"London Gold Medal 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year running (and at a time when Gold Medals in London are all the rage!), we are very proud and delighted to announce that an Imperial graduate has won the London Gold Med<a href=\"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2012\/07\/London-Gold-Medal-winner-2012-Dr-Alasdair-Scott.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-455 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/files\/2012\/07\/London-Gold-Medal-winner-2012-Dr-Alasdair-Scott-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"London Gold Medal winner 2012 - Dr Alasdair Scott\" \/><\/a>al.\u00a0 This year Dr Alasdair Scott won against very strong competition.<\/p>\n<p>Alasdair joined the MBBS\/BSc course at Imperial in October 2003.\u00a0 In 2007, awarded with a 1<sup>st<\/sup> in his BSc, Medical Sciences with Surgery and Anaesthesia, he took a 3 year interruption to undertake a PhD.\u00a0 He returned to the clinical course in 2010 and continued to excel. \u00a0He was awarded distinctions in General Practice, Paediatrics, Psychiatry, Pathology and PACES; and a merit in Obstetrics and Gynaecology for his Year 5 examinations.\u00a0 Then in June 2012,\u00a0Alasdair sat and passed his finals and was awarded distinctions in Clinical Science, Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Medical Sciences, Medicine, Surgery and hence was nominated for the London Gold Medal.<\/p>\n<p>This is an outstanding achievement as the academic quality of candidates is extremely high.\u00a0 All London medical schools (George\u2019s, KCL, QMUL, UCL and Imperial) are invited to nominate a small number of newly graduated students to compete for the Gold Medal annually.\u00a0 The nominated candidates are selected by each School from those who obtained the highest number of Merits and Distinctions and have passed every examination at the first attempt.<\/p>\n<p>This confirms once again what a fantastic group of students <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">and<\/span> teachers we have at this medical school.\u00a0 We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of the staff who support our students, in whatever capacity.<\/p>\n<p>We are sure you would wish to join us in sending warmest congratulations to Dr Alasdair Scott.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;<a title=\"London Gold Medal winners 2011\" href=\"http:\/\/www3.imperial.ac.uk\/newsandeventspggrp\/imperialcollege\/medicine\/newssummary\/news_29-7-2011-10-26-41\" target=\"_blank\"> Read more<\/a> about Imperial winners at last year&#8217;s competition<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the second year running (and at a time when Gold Medals in London are all the rage!), we are very proud and delighted to announce that an Imperial graduate has won the London Gold Medal.\u00a0 This year Dr Alasdair Scott won against very strong competition. Alasdair joined the MBBS\/BSc course at Imperial in October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/287"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-staging.imperial.ac.uk\/fom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}