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Lectures

The College lectures are prestigious events. Lecturers are decided two years in advance when the Awards Committee makes recommendations to Council. The College maintains a database of possible suitable candidates.

James Mackenzie Lecturer

The recipient is invited to give the James Mackenzie Lecture at the Annual General Meeting.

Nominations for the lecturer are submitted to the Awards Committee of the College. The topic of the lecture usually relates to an aspect of clinical medicine. 

Award: Silver medal with the College Coat of Arms.

William Pickles Lecturer

John Hunt Lecturer

This lecture was established in 1992 to celebrate the College’s fortieth year. It is delivered by someone who is not medically qualified as a general practitioner/family doctor. The inaugural John Hunt Lecture was given by HRH The Prince of Wales. It is a prestigious lecture and is normally given during each College Presidency.

• 2008 John Hunt Lecture, by Donald Berwick. ‘The epitaph of profession'.
• 2005 John Hunt Lecture, by Dame Janet Smith. 'Moving on: the medical profession after Shipman'.

Award: Silver medal with the College Coat of Arms. 

• The above Lecturers are normally published in the British Journal of General Practice.  
• Associated travel and subsistence costs are met.