Purpose:

This award acknowledges and celebrates a community preceptor who is recognized for their outstanding community-based patient care while teaching UMKC School of Medicine medical students, graduate program students, and/or graduate medical education residents/fellows.  This award is for a healthcare provider who works in a community clinical setting rather than interacting with learners primarily in the school’s affiliate hospital setting (University Health, Saint Luke’s Hospital, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Center for Behavioral Medicine, Mosaic, Veteran’s Administration Hospital, or Research Medical Center).

Description:

The recipient should be an individual who has influenced medical students’, graduate students’, and/or graduate medical education residents’/fellows’ clinical education by enhancing the knowledge, skills, and attitudes of learners in community-based practice.  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.  Recipients should inspire learners by using evidence-based care, model professionalism, and engage students meaningfully in patient care experiences during their preceptorship.

Eligibility:

Nominee must have provided continuous or recurring community-based teaching as a preceptor for medical students, graduate students, or residents/fellows for the UMKC School of Medicine.  The recipient does not need to be a SOM faculty member but does need to be a designated preceptor for learners.

Nomination guidelines and materials to be submitted by the deadline:

Please download and complete this checklist that is to be submitted as the first page of a single PDF nomination: 

https://umkc.box.com/s/nxmwg4fabh96kjve1wuv7laf0kb10u4w

To be considered, the following information must be submitted:

1. Nomination letter not to exceed 3-pages with up to 3 signees which should include a narrative of how the preceptor has inspired learners at UMKC SOM (medical students, graduate students, and/or graduate medical education residents/fellows). Anecdotes about the scope of influence/mentorship/support by the preceptor are encouraged.  The nomination letter is encouraged to come from learners (but not required).
2. Materials to submit with nomination letter:
   • Most recent CV from the nominee

Prior Winners:

• 2023 – John Armilio, M.D.