Faculty Clinical Affiliate Teaching Award
Purpose
This award acknowledges and celebrates a faculty member who is recognized for their clinical teaching of medical students, graduate program students, and/or graduate medical education residents/fellows. One award is given annually for each of the school’s major affiliates: University Health Medical Centers (UH), Saint Luke’s Hospital (SLH), Children’s Mercy Hospital (CMH), Mosaic Life Care and the Center for Behavioral Medicine (CBM).
Description
The faculty recipient should be an individual who has influenced medical student, graduate student, and/or graduate medical education resident/fellow clinical education by enhancing the knowledge, skills and attitudes of learners related to the medical specialty of the faculty member. The faculty member should be considered an excellent clinician who consistently has strong learner evaluations and is recognized for contributing to a supportive clinical learning environment at their primary clinical affiliate.
Eligibility
The nominee must be a tenure track or nontenure track faculty member in the UMKC School of Medicine for a minimum of five years. The faculty member’s primary clinical duties must include a substantial teaching component at University Health, Saint Luke’s Hospital, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Mosaic Life Care or the Center for Behavioral Medicine.
Nomination Guidelines and Required Materials
Nominees must be nominated by the academic chair of the faculty member.
To be considered, the following information must be submitted:
- Nominations and all materials must come from the academic chair and be submitted to the Office of Professional Development. An academic chair can also solicit and include letters of support from division and/or clinical department chairs of the major clinical affiliates and/or the clinical affiliate deans; however, the academic chair must write the primary nomination letter.
- Academic chairs may only submit one faculty nominee per major affiliate in which their academic department has faculty members (ex: the academic chair for surgery could select a different faculty nominee for UH, CMH, Mosaic and SLH). Only one faculty member from each affiliate will be awarded. The award is not granted to each academic department.
- Nomination letter, which should include:
- How long the clinical faculty member has been on staff at the affiliate site and a faculty member at UMKC School of Medicine (must be a minimum of five years).
- Attestation as to why this person stands out among their peers as an excellent clinical teacher who has made substantial and continued contributions to clinical education and creating a supportive learning environment for learners.
- The number and types of UMKC medical school learners that the faculty member has interacted with in the past year.
- Descriptions of any outcomes attributed to the influence of the clinical faculty member on learners, such as educational innovations, enhanced learner evaluations, learner scholarly activity supervised by faculty member, influence on specialty choice, attainment of post-graduate training or employment of the learner(s), etc.
- Materials to submit with nomination letter:
- Learner evaluations (student, resident, graduate student) of the faculty nominee. Must include evaluations for the most recent academic year.
- Letter(s) of support of up to three learners/learner groups describing the faculty’s clinical teaching skills and influence. Learners from a group could be a consensus of learners, such as a docent team, group of residents, etc.
- Most recent CV from the nominee
Please download and complete this checklist, which should be submitted as the first page of a single PDF nomination.
Prior Winners
- 2024 – Nicholas A. Clark, M.D., Children's Mercy Hospital
- 2024 – Evanthia Omoscharka, M.D., University Health
- 2023 – Christopher Kennedy, M.D., Children’s Mercy Hospital
- 2022 – Jacqueline Walker, M.D., MHPE, Children's Mercy Hospital
- 2021 – Stacey Algren, M.D., Saint Luke’s Hospital
- 2020 – Emily Hillman, M.D., MHPE, University Health