Robert Jones Medal and Association Prize
Applications for the 2025 Robert Jones Medal will open on 1st January 2025 and close on 31st January 2025.
The BOA offers a prize of £500 and a gold medal in memory of Sir Robert Jones through an annual essay competition, in which BOA members can submit an essay of their own choice on an orthopaedic interest. The essay is to be submitted in the following format:
- Typewritten in English, not exceeding 3,000 words, (excluding references), do not put your name on the essay – all submissions must be anonymised when reviewed by the President.
E-mail the essay to Celia Jones, PA to President & COO at [email protected].
Please note: No award will be made unless a sufficient standard is achieved. The award is made by the President, with advice from such assessors as they may select. Exceptionally, in outstanding cases, more than one prize may be awarded. All awards will be formally presented at the BOA Congress in September and recorded in the Annual Report.
| Winners of Robert Jones Gold Medal and Association Prize | ||
| Year | Name | Title |
| 2024 | K Nai | The psychology of the surgeon-patient relationship revisited |
| 2023 | H Cattermole | Generalism and orthopaedics |
| 2022 | K Vaghela | Non-technical skills and orthopaedic surgery: Beyond the eyes of a hawk, heart of a lion and hands of a lady |
| 2021 | D Bose | The orthopaedic ostrich: Surgeons responses to complications |
| 2020 | D Metcalfe | Advice not orders? The evolving legal status of clinical guidelines |
| 2019 | P Page | Shaping orthopaedic care in post-truth Britain – best foot forward or a step into the abyss? |
| 2018 | L Mason | The evolution of the human foot and its relation to foot and ankle dysfunction |
| 2017 | N Smith | Meniscectomy in a young patient - Is meniscal allograft transplantation to answer? |
| 2014 | A Wainwright | A good pair of hands |
| 2013 | J R Panchmatia | From trenches to theatre: What modern trauma and orthopaedic surgery owes to the fallen and wounded |
| 2012 | D Perry | A century of Perthes’ Disease: Unraveling the enigma |
| 2010 | D Gordon | The development of bone anchored amputation prostheses |
| 2008 | T Matthews | Cellular responses in rotator cuff tears |
| 2007 | K J J Tayton | Some observations on the mechanism of the slipper upper femoral epiphysis |
| 2006 | M Costa | Achilles tendon rupture and rehabilitation |
| 2005 | M Ishaque | The genetics of lumbar intervertebral disc degeneration |
| 2003 | J Wilkinson | Pathogenesis and prevention of aseptic loosening after total hip arthroplasty |
| 2002 | P Reilly | Rotator cuff tears |
| 2001 | A J Carr | The genetics of osteoarthritis |
| 1996 | P C Nolan | Tissue engineering - self cell therapy in orthopaedic surgery |
| 1995 | R M Atkins | The pathological anatomy and consequence management of displace intra-articular freactures of the calcaneum |
| 1994 | G C Bannister | Fixation of the femoral component in total hip replacement |
| 1991 | D J Dandy | The development of arthroscopic surgery of the knee |
| 1990 | D P Jenkin | Infection and failed wound healing following knee arthroplasty |
| 1989 | N H Jenkins | The treatment of Colles’ fracture |
| 1988 | G F McCoy | Vibratory arthrography and knee joint diagnosis |
| 1987 | D Ferris | Alterations in the bone quality of patients with osteoporotic proximal femoral fractures |
| 1986 | G Waddell | Understanding the patient with backache |
| 1984 | S H Norris | Observations on the use of radio-isotopes and plain x-rays to diagnose osteomyelitis |
| 1983 | J Pooley | The pathogenesis of Caisson disease related to aseptic necrosis of bone from other causes |
| 1982 | R A B Mollan | On the auscultation of joints |
| 1981 | S M Eisenstein | The human lumbar vertebral canal |
| 1980 | G Hall | Some observations on Perthes’ disease |
| 1979 | P J Gregg | Caisson disease of bone |
| 1977 | B J Main | Immobilisation osteoporosis in man |
| 1976 | F T Horan | The pressure distribution beneath the forefoot during walking |
| 1975 | P H Beighton | Sclerosteosis |
| 1972 | M A Nelson | The spinal tragedy in achondroplasia |
| 1971 | N J Blockey | Osteomyelitis in children |
| 1970 | P M Aichroth | The aetiology of osteochondritis dissecans of the knee joint |
| 1969 | H B S Kemp | Coxa plana |
| 1968 | M H Mehta | A study of infantile scoliosis |
| 1967 | C E A Holden | Biological failure: delaying union in diaphyseal fractures |
| 1966 | A W F Lettin | The effect of rigid internal fixation on the healing of cortical bone |
| 1965 | L Solomon | Hereditary multiple exostosis, a study in abnormal bone growth |
| 1964 | M A R Freeman | Muscular inco-ordination following joint injuries: the study of the clinical significance of the incapsulated nerve endings in joints |
| 1963 | P M Yeoman | Traction injuries of the brachial plexus |
| 1962 | R Wynne-Davies | The cause of congenital talipes equino-varus, together with a study of the functional anatomy after completion of treatment |
| 1961 | J Crawford Adams | Ischio-femoral arthrodesis |
| 1960 | J A Wilkinson | Aetiological factors in congenital dislocation of the hip |
| 1959 | M Makin | Osteogenesis by vesical mucosal transplant |
| 1954 | R Roaf | Paralytic scoliosis |
| 1953 | G C Lloyd-Roberts | Osteoarthritis of the hip joint: A study of the clinical pathology |
| 1952 | F Harwood Stevenson | The chemotherapy of orthopaedic tuberculosis |
| 1951 | P K Duraiswami | Experimental causation of congenital skeletal defects and its significance in orthopaedic surgery |
| 1950 | W Alexander Law | Osteoarthritis of the hip joint with special reference to treatment by vitallium and mould arthroplasty |
| 1949 | E Mervyn Evans | Pronation & supination: The importance of the rotation element in the treatment of injuries of the forearm |
| 1945 | S Pappworth | The primary treatment of lacerations of the hand |
| 1943 | F G St Clair Strange | Amputations |
| 1937 | H Jackson Burrows | Coxa Plana |
| 1933 | R W Butler & H J Seddon | Pott’s paraplegia |
| 1930 | H C Edwards | Injuries of tendons and muscles |
| 1928 | E P Brockman | Club foot (congenital talipes equino-varus) |
| 1927 | J F Brailsford | Deformities of the lumbo-sacral region of the spine |
| 1924 | G Perkins | The diagnosis, treatment and end results of tuberculous diseases in the hip joint |