Teaching Academy Awards for Teaching and Educational Excellence

Innovation in Curriculum Development or Pedagogy

This award is intended to recognize an individual or team who developed an approach to teaching and learning that is innovative, intellectually rigorous, and engaging. Examples include creating an educational resource; developing a new course or module; and redesigning an existing course, clerkship or program.

Learner Assessment

This award is intended to recognize an individual or team who created assessment activities and demonstrated a commitment to the culture of assessment within the course, clerkship, or program.

Frederick C. Morin, III, MD Educational Leadership Award

This award is intended to recognize an individual who has demonstrated an exemplary and sustained record of service in Educational Leadership, Committee Service, and/or Administration.

Educational Scholarship

This award is intended to recognize an individual who has demonstrated a record of Quality, Quantity, and Engagement in medical education scholarship.

Outstanding Contribution

This award is intended to recognize an individual who has made a significant contribution to medical education either for a specific, short-term initiative, or sustained contribution.

 
2022 Teaching Academy Awards for Teaching and Educational Excellence Recipients

People standing with awards

Left to right: Clara Keegan, MD, FAAFP; Miller Celestin, RN, MSN, CEN, CMSRN; Anisha Rimal, MD; Molly Rideout, MD; L.E. Faricy, MD; Bronwyn Bryant, MD; Jennifer Kelly, DO; Cynthia Forehand, PhD

  • Eligibility and details: All Larner College of Medicine Faculty are eligible. Faculty members must be nominated by Teaching Academy members, department chairs, or key education leaders. Nominees are not required to be current members of the Teaching Academy. Formal letters of recommendation are not required and will not be considered by the Review Committee. Instead, we ask that you complete the Teaching Award Nomination Form. The Teaching Academy will contact individual nominees to request their CV.

 

Please note that the award distribution may vary from year to year; thus it is unlikely that all awards will be conferred in a single year.

2022 Recipients

Innovation in Curriculum Development or Pedagogy Award
L.E. Faricy, MD, Pediatrics

Learner Assessment
Bronwyn Bryant, MD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Educational Scholarship
Molly Rideout, MD, Pediatrics

Outstanding Contribution Award
Anthony Williams, MD, Family Medicine

Frederick C. Morin III, MD Educational Leadership Award
Cynthia Forehand, PhD, Neurological Sciences

UVMHN Medical Group Education Awards

Continuing Medical Education Educator of the Year
Jennifer Kelly, DO, Medicine

Graduate Medical Education Educator of the Year
Clara Keegan, MD, FAAFP, Family Medicine

UVMHN Medical Group Educational Scholarship Grant
“Building a Sense of Belonging and Improving Mentorship Skills: An Interprofessional BIPOC Mentorship Program for Health Professions Students”

PI: Anisha Rimal, MD, Pediatrics
Co-PI: Miller Celestin, RN, MSN, CEN, CMSRN, Nursing

 

Past Recipients

Awardees are recognized at the annual Teaching Academy New Member Induction and Awards Ceremony.