DR CHANG MING YU was awarded the Albert & Mary Lim Award by the College of Family Physicians Singapore at its 40th Anniversary Dinner on 27 November 2o11, held at the Grand Ballroom of the Singapore Hyatt Hotel. The award, family medicine's equivalent of the Cultural Medallion, is awarded for outstanding achievement and service in the field of Family Medicine in Singapore. Dr Chang was a founding member of the College of General Practitioners as it was then known in 1971. He was for several years its Censor in Chief, as well as an elected member of the Singapore Medical Council. Here he receives the medal from the Minister of Health Gan Kim Yong.