Honours now consist of three categories
Nominations are being invited for the RCVS Honours for 2015.
The honours aim to recognise outstanding achievement in the veterinary world with nominations now open in three categories - the Queen's Medal, Honorary Associateship and Honorary Fellowship.
The Queen's Medal was first bestowed in 2014 as the highest honour that can be awarded to a veterinary surgeon.
There is one recipient for each prestigious annual award with the aim of recognising particularly distinguished careers and outstanding contributions in the field. Only members of the RCVS can make a nomination, making the medal a significant professional recognition of outstanding service.
The Honorary Associateship of the college is given to a small number of non-members of the RCVS each year for a special contribution to the field, with a range of individuals who contribute to the veterinary sphere being eligible including scientists, lecturers, veterinary nurses, charity workers and farmers, for example.
Meanwhile the Honorary Fellowship recognises members of the RCVS who have made an outstanding contribution to the profession by way of veterinary medicine, education, clinical practice or politics.
To find out more, and to download a nomination form, visit www.rcvs.org.uk/honours. Nomination forms should be completed and returned to the RCVS no later than Friday, September 12, 2014.
Nominators and nominees who have been successful will be notified in November with the results being made public in March 2015 and honours awarded at RCVS Day in July next year.
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