Yes, you’re right. Your memory’s not fading. You didn’t miss it and there’s still time to submit your nominations for the 40th Annual University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson Faculty Teaching Awards and the Vernon and Virginia Furrow Awards.
Normally held in November, the awards ceremony was delayed until Friday, Feb. 28, 2020, in order to give the event a less crowded calendar slot in the academic year to celebrate teaching excellence, announced the UArizona Academy of Medical Education Scholars (AMES). The new date and deadlines for nominations — Monday, Jan. 8, 2020 — were presented in memos released Dec. 9 in the Health Sciences Campus Update morning email.
See details below along with a request for applications for AMES Travel Awards to present at conferences between January and June 2020.
EXTRA INFO: DOM Tends to Dominate at Teaching Awards
The UArizona Department of Medicine has won the lion’s share of awards presented in recent years at the COM-T Teaching Awards. In each of the past two years (click on image at right for table of winners), for instance, a dozen faculty and housestaff in internal medicine have received honors (including pathologist Erika Bracamonte, MD, with a dual appointment in Nephrology who won in 2018 and 2017, and Payson, Ariz.’s Judith Hunt, MD, who won a Rural Preceptor Teaching Award in 2018). The DOM’s John Bloom, MD, and Amy Sussman, MD, were presented with chairs in successive years as Basic Science Educator of the Year – Lifetime Award winners, thus retiring them from winning again after five total wins in that category.
You can see all the award winners, stretching back to 2013, at this link. For DOM News coverage of these awards and who among our faculty has won them, see “ALSO SEE” stories at the bottom of this article.
PHOTOS FROM LAST YEAR’S AWARDS CEREMONY (click image to enlarge):
For more photos from the 2018 Faculty Teaching Awards, see this gallery at the COM-T Flickr webpage.
Click here to see video from the 39th Annual College of Medicine – Tucson Faculty Teaching Awards.
MEMO: Vernon and Virginia Furrow Excellence in Teaching Awards
**Nomination deadline is noon, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020**
To: College of Medicine Faculty and Department Heads
From: Academy of Medical Education Scholars
The Furrow Awards are the primary vehicle for peer recognition of outstanding achievements in education at the College of Medicine - Tucson. The Academy of Medical Education Scholars (AMES) at COM – Tucson invites your nominations for the 2019-2020 Furrow Awards.
Faculty may be nominated for Furrow Awards based on excellence in medical education in any of five categories:
- Basic science teaching in the undergraduate medical curriculum
- Clinical science teaching in the undergraduate medical curriculum
- Graduate medical education
- Graduate student education
- Innovation in medical education
Any College of Medicine faculty member from the Tucson campus may nominate any faculty member (including himself or herself) in one or more categories. Please follow these guidelines:
- The deadline for nominations is noon, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020.
- The primary nominator should indicate clearly which of the five categories above applies to the nomination, and should detail the peer observations on which the nomination is based.
- Up to two letters of support from peers may be provided. A nomination will be strengthened considerably if the primary nomination or a letter of support is provided by the faculty member’s department head or block/course/clerkship director. Inclusion of details and examples from faculty observations of the nominee's teaching will greatly strengthen an application.
- Student evaluations should not be included; these awards are based on peer assessment.
Furrow Awardees will be selected by the Academy of Medical Education Scholars, and will be recognized at the Annual Teaching Awards Ceremonies – Friday, Feb. 28, noon, in Duval Auditorium.
Email nominations to Jennifer Cogan at jenc@medadmin.arizona.edu. Contact AMES Chair Allie Min, MD, at amin@aemrc.arizona.edu with any questions about this awards program.
DOWNLOAD: 
Furrow Teaching Awards 2019-2020 announcement.pdf
MEMO: AMES Excellence in Teaching Awards
**Nominations deadline is noon, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020.**
To: College of Medicine Faculty and Department Heads
From: Academy of Medical Education Scholars
The AMES Excellence in Teaching Awards will recognize outstanding achievements in education at the College of Medicine – Tucson. The Academy of Medical Education Scholars (AMES) at COM – Tucson invites your nominations for the 2019-2020 AMES Excellence in Teaching Awards.
Faculty may be nominated for the awards based on excellence in medical education in any of two categories:
1. Criteria for Basic Science Teaching:
Recipient will be a COM – Tucson faculty member who demonstrates potential for teaching at the post-baccalaureate level, including courses offered for medical or graduate students. The successful nominee should have no more than 5 years of total teaching experience at these levels combined. At least 2 of the 5 years must have been spent teaching at the University of Arizona. Teaching at the undergraduate level will not be considered. Two letters of support for the nominee are required that specifically address the nominee's potential for growth in their teaching prowess. Potential for growth should be based on peer knowledge of the nominee's teaching ability and not solely on student evaluations. The nominators can consider innovative teaching as an example of future potential but this is not essential for being considered.
2. Criteria for Clinical Teaching
Recipient will be a faculty member who demonstrates potential for teaching at the medical student or resident level. The successful nominee should have no more than 5 years of total teaching experience at these levels. At least 2 of the 5 years must have been spent teaching at the University of Arizona and/or affiliated hospitals. Two letters of support for the nominee are required that specifically address the nominee's potential for growth in their teaching prowess. Potential for growth should be based on peer knowledge of the nominee's teaching ability and not on student evaluations. The nominators can consider unique approaches the nominee may use in their teaching and/or evaluation of medical students in clerkships or of residents.
Please follow these guidelines:
- The deadline for nominations is noon, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020.
- The primary nominator should indicate clearly which of the two categories above applies to the nomination, and should detail the peer observations on which the nomination is based.
- Up to two letters of support from peers may be provided. A nomination will be strengthened considerably if the primary nomination or a letter of support is provided by the faculty member’s department head or block/course/clerkship director. Inclusion of details and examples from faculty observations of the nominee's teaching will greatly strengthen an application.
- Student evaluations should not be included; these awards are based on peer assessment.
AMES Excellence in Teaching Awardees will be selected by the Academy of Medical Education Scholars, and will be recognized at the Annual Teaching Awards Ceremonies – Friday, Feb. 28, noon, in Duval Auditorium.
Email nominations to Jennifer Cogan at jenc@medadmin.arizona.edu. Contact Allie Min, MD, Chair of AMES, at amin@aemrc.arizona.edu with any questions about this awards program.
DOWNLOAD: Nomination Statement for AMES Excellence in Teaching Awards_2019-2020.pdf
MEMO: Announcement of AMES Travel Awards
**Application deadline is noon, Wednesday, Jan. 8, 2020**
The Academy of Medical Education Scholars (AMES) at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson promotes excellence and innovation in medical education. To this end, AMES announces the availability of travel grants for faculty, staff, and trainees of COM – Tucson to present their research on medical education at regional and national conferences.
We encourage medical-education researchers who expect to present their work at a conference from January 2020 to June 2020 to apply for a Travel Award. Submissions are due by Wednesday, Jan. 8. Notifications will be sent out by Friday, Jan. 17.
AMES will consider requests for up to $750 per applicant toward the expenses of presenting research (poster, talk, workshop, etc.) at a meeting such as that of the Western Group on Educational Affairs, the International Association of MSE, or an education-related component of the meeting of a professional society. An applicant must be an author on an accepted abstract and must play a substantial role in presenting the work at the meeting. Faculty, residents, fellows, students, and appointed personnel in the College of Medicine – Tucson are eligible; applications from residents, fellows, and students must be sponsored by a COM faculty member.
Reimbursements MUST be submitted within 60 days from the date the expenses are incurred. Failure to submit reimbursement within the 60 days will result in tax implications to the grant recipient. Travel expenses must be submitted for reimbursement before the end of June 2020.
A letter of intent to apply should list your name, department or section, and position or type of appointment, as well as the conference you expect to attend and your expected role in presenting the work (if you will not be first author).
A complete application for an AMES travel grant must include the following:
- Your name, primary department or section, and position or type of appointment.
- A copy of your abstract and letter of acceptance
- A brief explanation of your role in presenting the work if you are not first author
- COM – Tucson faculty sponsorship letter, if applicable (see above)
- An estimate of your expenses (registration, travel, lodging)
Please submit letters of intent or full applications to Jennifer Cogan at jenc@medadmin.arizona.edu. Contact Allie Min, MD, AMES Chair, at amin@aemrc.arizona.edu with any questions.
DOWNLOAD: Announcement of AMES Travel Awards 2019-2020.pdf
ALSO SEE:
“Honorees in 2018 Faculty Teaching Awards” | (College of Medicine - Tucson) Posted Nov. 8, 2018
“Department of Medicine Faculty to Take Quarter of Honors at 2018 College Faculty Teaching Awards” | Posted Oct. 21, 2018
“DOM Takes Third of College of Medicine – Tucson Faculty Teaching Awards” | Posted Oct. 25, 2017
“DOM Faculty Repeat as Winners in the 37th Annual College Teaching Awards” | Posted Nov. 3, 2016
“DOM Faculty Spotlighted in UA College of Medicine Teaching Awards Ceremony” | Posted Nov. 19, 2015