IMI Honours List

Norman K. Harrison Award 

The Institute’s most prestigious award is the Norman K. Harrison Gold  Medal, presented annually at the discretion of the Chairman to a member considered to have made an outstanding contribution to the Institute or profession. An article on Norman K. Harrison can be viewed here.

Peter Cull Award

Peter Cull was a founder member of the Institute and on his death his widow kindly bequeathed ten silver medals struck in his name. Five were given to IMI and five were given to the Medical Artists’ Association of Great Britain.

Awarded by each IMI Chairman once during their two-year term of office to an individual, team, group, department or organisation that had made a significant lasting impact on the Institute and its members. Both members and non-members are eligible.

IMI Special Recognition Award 

This award recognises individuals for their dedicated service and contribution to the Institute and / or the profession throughout their career. Recipients will be awarded for giving valuable service and loyalty. Anyone within or out-with IMI can nominate an IMI member for this award. The intended recipients must be fully paid up IMI Members at the time of nomination. Nominations should be made in writing to the Honorary Secretary for Council to discuss and make a decision. The Chairman has a casting vote. Nominations can submitted at any time but only nominations received before April 30^th can be considered for presentation at the annual conference. The award will take the form of a small gift and a certificate. Winners will be invited as guests to receive their award at the banquet and IMI will cover the expenses of this and an overnight stay. IMI will promote the winners in a feature for IMI News.

Honorary Fellows (formerly known as Emeritus Life Members)

Honorary Fellowship is an honour awarded in recognition of outstanding service to the Institute or to the profession as a whole. The procedure for nominating a member for a Honorary Fellowship is available on the members’ home page.

IMI Fellows

IMI Fellowship is the highest grade of professional membership and it recognises excellent abilities and skills and is its highest distinction of the Institute.

There are two routes to achieving this and applications may be made by Members of the Institute with a minimum of 5 years’ post-qualification experience. Click here for more information.

IMI Journal Awards

The Taylor & Francis Award

This award is presented annually to the author of the best original manuscript published in the Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine and is selected by a team of past Editors and invited judges. It is sponsored by Taylor & Francis. The winner receives a certificate and £100.

The Peter Hansell Memorial Medal (established 2008)

Peter Hansell was the founding editor of Medical and Biological Illustration (now the Journal of Visual Communication in Medicine). He persuaded the British Medical Association to launch the Journal in 1951 and remained associated with it as Editor Emeritus until his death.

Ten Peter Hansell Medals were cast and are only awarded should a paper submitted by an IMI member to the journal be deemed to be of an outstanding quality.

Only IMI members are eligible to be considered for the award which is for an original article published between 1^st September of the previous year and 30^th August of the current year. The winner is selected by past Editors of the journal and invited guests.

Readers Choice Award (established 2014)

Any manuscript type published between 1^st September of the previous year and 30^th August of the current year.

The paper with the most average downloads per month (based on number of total views/number of months available to download).

The winner is selected based on statistics provided by production team.

Keith Duguid Best New Author Award (established in 2015)

The Editorial Board decided to introduce a new award to both encourage and celebrate new authors. It was originally planned to be called the ‘Editor’s Award’ as the honour of selecting the recipient is reserved solely for the Journal’s Editor.

Following the passing of Keith Duguid in March 2015 the Editor contacted IMI officers to ask if the award could be re-named in his honour and the ‘Keith Duguid New Author Award’ was born. Keith was Editor of the Journal under the title The Journal of Audiovisual Media in Medicine or JAMM for over ten years from 1981 to 1992 often providing advice and encouragement to new authors and also to those editors who followed and who will remain eternally grateful.

Only IMI members who are new authors are eligible to be considered for the award which is for an original article published between 1^st September of the previous year and 30^th August of the current year.

The winner is selected by the current editor of the journal.

Past Journal  Awards