The Federation's most prestigious medical prize, normally given for a lifetime's work, for which Julian Bashir became the youngest nominee in its history in 2371.
The Carrington Award is presented each year by the Federation Medical Council to a physician for an outstanding body of work. It is usually regarded as the crown of a long career, and nominees are typically many decades into their profession.
The award features in the Deep Space Nine episode Prophet Motive. Doctor Bashir is astonished to learn he has been nominated, becoming the youngest candidate ever put forward, and insists to everyone that he has no chance and has not prepared a speech.
His colleagues on the station are far more excited than he pretends to be, and he secretly writes a speech all the same. In the end the prize goes to Doctor Henri Roget, and Bashir admits to being more disappointed than he had expected.