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Call for Nominations: Department of Medicine Awards 2023

Department of Medicine 2023 Prizes and Awards

Nomination form

This call is for nominations for the 2023 Department of Medicine Awards to be awarded at our Annual Day celebration. Eligibility criteria limitations (e.g., within 10 years of appointment to the department for the Goldie Prizes) and the impact of the pandemic on academic productivity will be taken into consideration in the adjudication process.

General criteria:

  • Individuals with a primary appointment to the Department of Medicine during the 22-23 academic years are eligible.
  • Self-nominations are not permitted.
  • Unless otherwise specified, nominations are welcome from members of the Department of Medicine, undergraduate and post-graduate trainees, and allied health professionals.
  • A past recipient of an award is ineligible for re-nomination of that specific award
  • The Department of Medicine is strongly committed to promoting a culture of inclusion and encourages nominations of racialized persons/persons of colour, women, Indigenous/Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ2S+ persons, and others who have contributed to our goal of achieving inclusive excellence in our department.
  • When submitting the nomination, the nominee's updated CV should be included below.

All nominations must be received by Monday March 27, 2023, at 9:00 AM.

Award-specific criteria:

To view specific criteria for each award, select the award in the drop-down menu below. Additionally, an overview of each award can be found here.

What award are you nominating this person for?
  • Department of Medicine Academy of Master Clinicians
    • Recognizes clinical faculty members who have demonstrated consistent outstanding clinical performance and the highest standard of patient care. The Academy reflects those clinicians who are recognized by colleagues and the medical community for setting an example in high quality patient care, diagnostic acumen, and ability to confront challenging cases, while demonstrating humility, respect and civility for patients and colleagues.
    • The Master Clinician should demonstrate excellence in all domains. It is highly recommended that all nomination letters address each of the criteria below in turn.
      • Clinical Expertise
        • Consistently provides the highest standard of patient care
        • Demonstrates a scholarly approach to patient care
        • Skillful diagnostic acumen
        • Able to diagnose diseases that lie outside the normal spectrum of routine encounters
        • Called to for challenging cases
      • Recognized by colleagues and medical community
        • A role model
        • Humility and modesty
        • Consistent demonstration of respect and civility
        • The “doctor’s doctor”
      • Expertise in intrinsic physician roles
        • Mastery of Communication
        • Mastery of Professionalism
        • Empathic
        • Holistic
        • Ethical
        • Compassionate
        • Individual Patient Advocacy: Takes “extra steps” to provide excellent patient care
  • Eaton Scholar Researcher of the Year Award – Basic Science
    • Recognizes a member of the Department of Medicine who has demonstrated sustained excellence as a basic scientist and role model over several years. In particular, the awardee must demonstrate a track record of mentorship and demonstrable impact in their field.
  • Eaton Scholar Researcher of the Year Award – Clinical Science
    • Recognizes a member of the Department of Medicine who has demonstrated sustained excellence as a scientist and role model over several years. In particular, the awardee must demonstrate a track record of mentorship and demonstrable impact in their field. This award encompasses a variety of types of research including, but not restricted to, education research, clinical trials, outcomes, clinical epidemiology, and health services research.
  • Department of Medicine Teacher of the Year Award
    • Recognizes a member of the Department of Medicine who has demonstrated sustained excellence as a teacher and role model over several years.
    • Candidates are expected to have made contributions to teaching in one or more of the following areas:
      • Sustained excellence in teaching.
      • Educational research and/or scholarship.
      • Leadership in education.
  • Robert Hyland Award for Excellence in Mentorship
    • Recognizes faculty who have shown sustained excellence in mentoring other members of the Department including helping them to develop their professional careers while balancing the competing challenges of their personal lives.
    • Mentorship is a process whereby an experienced, highly regarded, empathetic person (the mentor) guides another (usually younger or more junior) individual (the mentee) in the development and re-examination of their own ideas, learning, and personal and professional development.
    • All faculty Members in the Department of Medicine are eligible
    • Nominator must be a faculty member with a primary appointment to the Department of Medicine. As this award is focused on the mentorship of faculty, please provide information on mentorship at the faculty level, not at the trainee level.
    • Nominations will be judged on the following criteria:
      • The mentor’s qualities and behaviours including being accessible, developing good rapport, supporting work life balance, promoting self-reflection, providing opportunities for mentees, helping with challenging issues, being a role model for professionalism, and demonstrating altruism,
      • Outcomes including impact on careers, productivity of their mentees, and overall breadth and depth of their mentorship activities, and
      • Innovation in mentoring (if applicable).
    • The committee recognizes that mentorship excellence can take on many forms. One mentor may contribute with great impact to a single individual, or mentors may contribute in a narrower (but equally impactful) scope to multiple mentees. The full range of mentorship activities and type will be considered for this award. Letters may be submitted by more than one mentee although this is not a requirement. Letters should focus on specific examples of the mentor’s impact as experienced or directly observed by the nominator.
    • The nominee must complete this Mentorship Summary Form and return it to the nominator for submission with this nomination (upload box below).
  • Department of Medicine Award in Quality and Innovation
    • Recognizes outstanding leadership or academic contributions to the fields of healthcare quality, patient safety, and innovation. Examples might include efforts to improve the degree to which patients receive proven aspects of care (e.g., increasing guideline concordant care), reducing harms to patients from medical care (patient safety), as well as innovations in health services delivery—new models care of that improve outcomes, the patient experience, or healthcare value. Consider nominating someone who was promoted to associate or full professor on basis of CPA (Creative Professional Activity) whose work relates to quality improvement or innovation.
  • The Michael Gordon Award for Humanism in Medicine
    • A key Department of Medicine priority is to ensure patients and their families, and their experiences, drive our work. The fundamental principles of "person-centeredness" are open communication, mutual respect, and emotional connection between physicians and their patients. This award aims to recognize faculty members who exemplify a deep and abiding commitment to humanism in healthcare, in particular those for whom this commitment transcends interaction with individual patients and have demonstrated impact in the broader community, especially in supporting vulnerable populations. Humanism is understood to be an acknowledgment of other human beings as individuals with autonomy, unique backgrounds, values, and perspectives, and a commitment to address issues of inclusion, equity, and social justice.
    • Nominations are welcome from members of the Department of Medicine, undergraduate and post-graduate trainees, and allied health professionals.
    • Letter of nomination must include the narrative of a specific incident or situation in which a profound commitment to humanistic values was demonstrated.
  • William Goldie Prize and Travel Award – Research
    • Awarded annually to members of the department who are within 10 years of initial appointment to the department and who have each made a contribution of notable merit to the advancement of sound knowledge in internal medicine through research. The 10-year window of eligibility can be extended in cases where the nominee was off work due to parental or illness leave or other mitigating factors.
  • William Goldie Prize and Travel Award – Teaching
    • Awarded annually to members of the department who are within 10 years of initial appointment to the department and who have each made a contribution of notable merit to the advancement of sound knowledge in internal medicine through teaching. The 10-year window of eligibility can be extended in cases where the nominee was off work due to parental or illness leave or other mitigating factors.
  • William Goldie Prize and Travel Award – Education
    • Awarded annually to members of the department who are within 10 years of initial appointment to the department and who have each made a contribution of notable merit to the advancement of sound knowledge in internal medicine through education. The 10-year window of eligibility can be extended in cases where the nominee was off work due to parental or illness leave or other mitigating factors.
  • William Goldie Prize and Travel Award – Quality & Innovation
    • Awarded annually to members of the department who are within 10 years of initial appointment to the department and who have each made a contribution of notable merit to the advancement of sound knowledge in internal medicine through quality & innovation work. The 10-year window of eligibility can be extended in cases where the nominee was off work due to parental or illness leave or other mitigating factors.
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