Exceptional Community Faculty Teaching Award

The Minnesota Medical Foundation invites you to participate in the selection of community faculty to receive the Exceptional Community Faculty Teaching Awards. The foundation endeavors with these new awards to honor and encourage the kind of preceptorial teaching the medical students hold in esteem. Winners receive a recognition certificate and a $500 cash prize from the foundation. Two awards will be made.

Eligibility for Minnesota Medical Foundation Exceptional Community Faculty Teaching Awards is open to all adjunct faculty who teach medical students in any of the four years of their training.

Criteria for selection:

• Major, enduring contributions to student learning,
• At least three years of continuous or recurring teaching of medical students in any year of training,
• Demonstrated superior evaluations of teaching by students,
• Special contributions to education of medical students.

Nomination Process

Nominations will be accepted from Medical School course directors.  Submit the nomination form (Microsoft Word); attach student teaching evaluations of the nominee. 

Submit 15 copies of the nomination materials to:

University of Minnesota Medical School
ATTN:  Patricia Tuomi, Program Coordinator
MMC 293 Mayo
C696 Mayo Building
420 Delaware St. S.E.
Minneapolis, MN  55455

Review Process

Evaluation will be based upon student evaluations of the nominee. Award winners will be selected by the Honors and Awards Committee of the Minnesota Medical Foundation.

Deadline

February 1 annually

For More Information

For further information on this award, call 612-626-3807.