The Independent Panel for the 2025 award

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Prof. Trevor Gibbs: 

Prof. Kathleen M Quinlan: 

Professor Athanasia Printza

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Selection Lead: Dr Katy Newell-Jones

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The Oxford Centre for Medical Education (OxCME) is delighted to announce the results of the O’Leary Medical Education Award 2025.

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This award was created in 2019 in memory of the late Dr Denis O’Leary supported through a generous donation from the O’Leary family. The aim of the award is to recognise excellence in medical/clinical education with an emphasis on patient-centeredness. It is open to UK and international medical/clinical educators who have developed, implemented and evaluated innovative educational interventions in their local context. OxCME is looking for educational interventions which address a specific clinical need, draw on multi-professional teams and ensure the patient voice is heard throughout the initiative.

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OxCME received a number of strong nominations in 2025 and the external panel of experts in medical education selected the following projects as the Winner and the Runner-up.

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The 2025 winner of the Denis O’Leary Medical Education award is: Partners of Experience in Cancer (PECan), from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (AUTh) and the Thessaloniki Action for Health & Wellbeing Living Lab (Thess-AHALL) in collaboration with the Hellenic Cancer Federation (ELLOK). This programme, nominated by Despoina Mantziari, has developed a patient-led living lab to improve cancer patient care, equity and quality of life. We look forward to learning more about this programme, the challenges and success in the future.

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The panel also highly recommended: 360-Degree Psychiatry Experience Promoting Patient-Centred Care and Inter-professional Working, from the Warneford Hospital, Oxford NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK, led by Dr. Emma Flint as the runner-up. This programme uses innovative technology to expose students to clinical situations that may be uncommon or unsafe to be exposed to during their clinical placements. We look forward to hearing more about the impact on patient care as this project is further developed.

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Both these initiatives will be invited to present at one of the Association of Medical Schools in Europe (AMSE) conference and will feature strongly on the OxCME website.

 

With congratulations to our winner 2025 and highly commended initiatives.

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