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Enter a poster into this year’s RCPath Northern Ireland Symposium Poster Competition

We are inviting professionals from various fields of Pathology to submit their abstracts for poster presentations at our upcoming RCPath Northern Ireland Symposium - From Diagnosis to Recovery: Pathology Improving Every Step of the Patient Journey being held on 20 October 2026.

Posters are an excellent way to showcase research, projects, best practice, service improvement projects, audits, interesting cases or ideas in a visually engaging and informative way. This is your opportunity to showcase what you have been working on individually, or as part of a team.

We would love a range of ideas across all specialties. Your ideas might come from the event’s theme (From Diagnosis to Recovery: Pathology Improving Every Step of the Patient Journey), or more generally the pathology related work you are particularly proud of and want to put in the limelight.

Winner of the first prize will be awarded £100. Winners of the second and third prizes will receive £50 each.

Winners will present their posters at the RCPath Northern Ireland Symposium on Tuesday 20 October 2026 at the Lecture Theatre, Postgraduate Medical Centre, Belfast City Hospital, 51 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 7AB.

Terms and conditions

We highly recommend taking time to read the competition's T&Cs.  To get you started we have selected a few points from the full T&Cs which can be found below.

  • There can be more than one author of the poster that is submitted, but one person must be nominated as main point of contact and to take receipt of the prize.
  • Only one submission per author/s is allowed.
  • Resubmission of a poster that has previously been entered into another College poster competition is not allowed.
  • The competition is open to Northern Ireland entrants only.
  • The theme is open to individual interpretation, but entries must have pathology at their heart or be inspired by the overall theme of RCPath Northern Ireland Symposium. Information on the disciplines which encompass pathology can be found in the careers section of the website.

Submit your abstract

Each abstract entry should be accompanied by the following information:

  1. Abstracts should be no longer than 250 words.
  2. The abstract should include the following information:
  • Title of the poster
  • Name(s) and affiliation(s) of the author(s)
  • Objectives and purpose of the research or project
  • Methods and materials used
  • Results or expected outcomes
  • Conclusions and impact on the patient journey.
  1. Please also include a brief biography of the author(s) no longer than 50 words.
  2. Authors of accepted posters will be expected to present their posters and to answer questions during the poster session.
Please send entries to [email protected] before 23.59 GMT on Tuesday 1 September 2026, when the competition closes. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out as soon as possible after the deadline.

We look forward to receiving your abstracts and seeing the innovative work that you are doing in your respective fields! If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us.