Shrove Tuesday Final Year Dinner
The Shrove Tuesday Dinner started in 1940 during the Blitz at the old Westminster Hospital. Students and house staff decided to have dinner to alleviate the oppressive mood. A senior member of staff was invited to address the assembled doctors and whilst he was talking a caricature was sketched on the tablecloth by one of his audience. It was cut out, passed round, signed and mounted and started the unbroken tradition that has evolved into the Shrove Tuesday Final Year Dinner.
The event is held in March every year and it is a chance to look back on the last six years before finalists put their heads down for finals revision. The dinner is specifically for the year but other doctors and friends are allowed to attend the after-dinner festivities. So the dinner is quite unique as it is very intimate with just final years and has very quirky traditions such as the caricature (all of which are displayed in the basement of Chelsea and Westminster Hospital), and more recently, the music video, in which the professors send up a popular song.
Year | Speaker | Speciality |
2013 | Prof Karim Meeran | Professor of Endocrinology |
2012 | Dr Fey Probst | Consultant Emergency Physician |
2011 | Dr Mike Schachter | Pharmacology & Faculty Senior Tutor |
2010 | Prof Patrick Venables | Professor of Rheumatology |
2009 | Prof Geoffrey Pasvol | Professor of Infection and Tropical Medicine |
2008 | Mr Robin Touquet | Emergency Medicine |
2007 | Miss Jenny Higham | Obstetrician and Gynaecologist |
2006 | Prof John MacDermot | Head of Undergraduate Medicine |
2005 | Prof Averil Mansfield | Vascular Surgery |
2004 | Prof John F Laycock | Endocrine Physiology |
2003 | Mr Rosin | Consultant General Surgeon |
2002 | Dr C Bunker | Consultant Dermatologist |
2001 | Dr Iain Lindsay | Consultant Histopathologist |
2000 | Mr James Scott | Orthopaedic Surgeon |
1999 | Dr Neil Soni | Consultant Anaesthetist |
1998 | Prof Phillip J Steer | Obstetrician |
1997 | Dr J Collins | Physician |
1996 | Mr JM Thomas | Oncological Surgeon |
1995 | Dr Richard Straughton | Consultant Dermatologist |
1994 | Dr Ronald Zeegan | Physician & Sub-Dean |
1993 | Mr JEH Pendower | Dean |
1992 | Prof C Wastell | Surgeon |
1991 | CP Hugh-Jones | |
1990 | Dr AC Branfoot | Histopathologist |
1989 | TW Glenister | |
1988 | Dr B Bazzard | Consultant Physician |
1987 | Dr Peter Fleming | Cardiologist |
1986 | Dr Bob Phillips | Radiotherapist |
1985 | Dr J Gleeson | Radiologist |
1984 | Dr P Emerson | Physician |
1983 | Dr Joe Connolly | Consultant Psychiatrist |
1982 | Dr FB Gibberd | Neurologist |
1981 | Mr David L Evans | Orthopaedic Surgeon |
1980 | Dr Lavinia W Loughridge | Consultant Renal Physician |
1979 | Dr Handley MT Coles | Consultant Paediatrician |
1978 | John Bernard Wyman | Dean, Anaesthetist |
1977 | Prof Harold Ellis | Surgeon |
1976 | Dr Ian M Anderson | Consultant Paediatrician |
1975 | Mr PD Trevor-Roper | Consultant Ophthalmologist |
1974 | Dr RIS Bayliss | Consultant Physician |
1973 | Prof Douglas H Mackenzie | Pathologist |
1972 | Dr JG Humble | Haematologist |
1971 | Dr CJ Gavey | Physician |
1970 | CE Drew ESQ | Thoracic Surgeon |
1969 | Prof Malcolm DMilne | Physician |
1968 | Prof B Lacey | Microbiologist |
1967 | Prof GSW Organe | Anaesthetist |
1966 | Mr F Dudley Hart | Physician |
1965 | Mr FA d\'Abreu | Surgeon |
1964 | Mr GH Macnab | Surgeon |
1963 | Mr D Walker Ashcroft | Otorhinolaryngologist |
1962 | Mr HE Harding | Orthopaedic Surgeon |
1961 | Mr R Cox | Surgeon |
1960 | Mr ES Lee | Surgeon |
1959 | Dr Robert Machray | Anaesthetist |
1958 | Prof NF Maclagan | Pathologist |
1957 | Dr SP Meadows | Physician |
1956 | Dr Peter J Kerley | Radiologist |
1955 | Dr JL Franklin | Dermatologist |
1954 | Mr EP Brockman | Orthopaedic Surgeon |
1953 | Dr FM Allchin | Radiotherapist |
1952 | Sir Clement Price Thomas | Surgeon |
1951 | Dr. Ivan Magill | Anaesthetist |
1950 | Dr WE Lloyd | Physician |
1949 | Mr A Goodwin | Obstetrician and Gynaecologist |
1948 | Mr AC Bell | Obstetrician and Gynaecologist |
1947 | Prof RJV Pulvertaft | Clinical Pathologist |
1946 | Dr HT Brown | Dermatologist |
1945 | Mr AF MacCallan | Ophthalmic Surgeon |
1944 | Sir Arnold Scott | Physician |
1943 | Sir Adolphe Abrahams | Physician |
1942 | Mr Gerald Thomas Mullaly | Surgeon |
1941 | Sir Ernest Rock Carling | Surgeon |
1940 | Sir Stanley Woodwark | Physician |
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