This prize will be awarded to one medical student and one resident who have demonstrated excellence in medical education within the schools of medicine in Canada.
Award
Each Department of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine is eligible to nominate one resident for the Dr. W. Dale Dauphinee Award for Excellence in Medical Education.
The successful candidate will be awarded $5,000 to be used for studies, books or e-learning tools, and/or conference attendance.
Criteria and Consideration
All nominees must be registered with the Postgraduate Medical Education office for the current academic year.
Nominees should have made significant contributions to the betterment and accessibility of medical education and/or assessment practices through innovation within their faculty or between faculties within the health disciplines.
This award will recognize a resident whose actions and accomplishments reflect the attitudes and values that have kept the MCC at the front of incremental change and quality improvement and to remain relevant to its public mandate. Areas of interest could include:
Developing innovative educational or assessment tools at undergraduate or postgraduate levels
Improving accessibility of assessment tools through the use of technology in changing times
Assessing the validity of Artificial Intelligence ‘tools’ in learning or quality of care
Initiating innovative qualitative and quantitative measures of performance
Initiating an innovative process for virtual and/or continuing learning in practice
Piloting and demonstrating clinical effect for new technologies
Demonstrating peer feedback for improving clinical performance and/or for learning
Creating collaborative alliances to improve assessment
Improving assessment of inter-professional and/or team performance
Nomination Process
Each nomination package must include:
A letter from the Program Director outlining how a resident has demonstrated excellence in medical education during their training. Letters should not exceed two pages. Only 1 letter per candidate will be considered for review.
Letters should be addressed to Dr. Meredith Giuliani, Associate Dean, PGME
Curriculum Vitae formatted in 11-point font or larger and a maximum of three pages in length. This will only be used by the selection committee if clarification of the details in the nomination letter are required
Selection Process
The applications will be reviewed and ranked by the Postgraduate Awards Committee. Winners will be notified in April.
