Rouleaux Club Essay Competition 2023

Our annual essay competition invites aspiring vascular surgeons to showcase their writing skills and explore current issues affecting the specialty

Essay Title Choices

1. The future of Vascular Surgery: How would you attract the best future Vascular Surgeons and ensure their fulfilment and wellbeing throughout training?

2. Discuss the role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in improving current management of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (AAA).

3. Is surgical bypass underutilised for patients requiring lower limb revascularisation?

Guidance

Deadline for Submission: 30th September 2023, 11:59pm

  • The Rouleaux Club Essay Competition is open to medical students and pre-registrar junior doctors.
  • The medical student and junior doctor essays will be marked in separate categories.
  • Entrants should submit original work in answer to one of the three essay title choices. You may only submit one essay.
  • The essay, literature review, and discussion are limited to 1500 words maximum, excluding references. Please note that a minimum essay length of 1000 words is required.
  • Referencing should be presented in Vancouver style.
  • Submissions will be judged by a panel convened by the Rouleaux Club Executive Committee in a blinded manner using a standardised marking scheme and collated scores.

Prizes & Benefits

**NEW THIS YEAR**

The winner of each category will have their essay published in the Journal of Vascular Societies Great Britain and Ireland.

  • All eligible entrants will receive free registration to the Vascular Societies’ Annual Scientific Meeting (VSASM) in November 2023. A certificate of acknowledgement for all competition entrants will be provided following the meeting.
  • The top 5 entrants in each category (10 places in total) will receive free entry to the Introduction to Vascular Surgery Course (held at the VSASM).
  • Winners will be announced and prizes presented at the VSASM in November 2023.
  • There are three prizes available (1st , 2nd , 3rd ) per category of medical student and pre-registrar junior doctor (6 prizes in total).

Essay Submission Rules

  1. Download this submission template: Essay Competition Submission Form 2023
  2. Please ensure your details are filled in correctly; we cannot be held responsible for any errors.
  3. Name the file “First name_Last name_Essay”. The file must be in Word document format (.doc or .docx).
  4. Send your submission to rouleaux.essay@gmail.com
  5. Late entries will not be accepted.

After Submitting:

  1. Entrants will receive a confirmation email following receipt of their submission.
  2. VSASM Admission: Further details regarding complementary registration for all entrants will be released following the close of the competition.
  3. Introduction to Vascular Surgery Course: This will be hosted at the VSASM, with details released in due course.

For any further queries, please contact us at exec@rouleauxclub.com.

Previous Winners

2022 WINNERS

Doctors’ Category:
1st Prize – Faraaz Khan
2nd Prize – Arthur Lim
3rd Prize – Amy Walter

Students’ Category:
1st Prize – Hailey Rees
2nd Prize – Rohit Vijjhalwar
3rd Prize – Chandini Chand

2021 Winners

Doctors’ category:
First Prize – Khalid Al-Hashimi
Second Prize – Than Dar
Third Prize – Aurélien Guéroult

Students’ category:
First Prize – Rupert Vicary-Watts
Second Prize – Imama Taiba Nasir
Third Prize – Isabelle Sanders

2020 Winners

Doctors’ category:
First Prize – Aurélien Guéroult (FY2 North West London Deanery)
Second Prize – Robert Henson (FY2 Defence Deanery, North)
Third Prize – Thomas Baker (FY1 Wessex Deanery)

Students’ category:
First Prize – Edward Antram (5th Year, King’s College London)
Second Prize – Simran Thadani (4th Year, Hull York Medical School)
Third Prize – Imama Taiba Nasir (4th Year, University of Manchester)

2019 Winners

Doctors’ category:
First Prize – Calvin Eng (FY2, Scotland Deanery)
Second Prize – Thomas Richards (CT2, Kent, Surrey and Sussex Deanery)
Third Prize – Garima Govind (CT1, East of England Deanery)

Students’ category:
First Prize – Alexandra Jackson (4th year, Leicester Medical School)
Second Prize – Jason Yang (6th year, Edinburgh Medical School)
Third Prize – Lawrence Tan (5th year, Cambridge Medical School)