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Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Awards

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2025 Awards

These peer-nominated awards highlight outstanding front-line teachers of learners, mentors of learners, and faculty at all UCSF teaching sites who might otherwise go unrecognized for the 2024-2025 academic year.

Our new peer-nominated mentoring award is intended to highlight outstanding education mentors at UCSF and all teaching sites who also might otherwise go unrecognized.

Recipients will be celebrated at the Celebration of New Members on September 17, 2:30 - 5 pm

Full List of 2025 Faculty Award Recipients

Nomination Information

(1) Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Teaching Award (AME)

  • These front-line teachers are ‘unsung heroes’ who demonstrate their daily dedication to education and teach in a manner that creates an encouraging and intellectually stimulating environment that promotes critical thinking and learning.

(2) Academy of Medical Educators/Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education (PIPE) Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Award for UCSF Teaching Faculty

  • Front-line interprofessional teachers who work with learners from two or more professions and create an environment that enables learners to learn with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and optimize patient outcomes.

(3) Academy of Medical Educators Excellence in Mentoring Award for UCSF Teaching Faculty

  • Mentoring is comprised of a variety of relationships that include role modeling, advocating, advising, and coaching. Educational mentorship is a longitudinal relationship in which a mentor supports a mentee in their creative activities and their professional development.
  • Recognizing mentoring as a valuable contribution to the University of California San Francisco, we want to honor individuals who have shown commitment and dedication to mentoring, advising, and supporting others. This peer-nominated Excellence in Mentorship Awards are intended to highlight outstanding accomplishments in mentorship among UCSF faculty who support and empower their colleagues and trainees in advancing their careers and achieving their professional goals.
Eligibility

Who is eligible?
All faculty who teach UCSF trainees and students

  • Any UCSF faculty who teach UCSF trainees and students
  • All UCSF Schools
  • Includes UCSF Volunteer Clinical Professors
  • From any UCSF teaching sites and affiliated sites including Community sites, East Bay sites, Kaiser, Mission Bay, Mount Zion, Parnassus, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospitals (Oakland and San Francisco), UCSF Fresno, SFVAMC, and ZSFG.

NOTE: for the Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching award, Interprofessional teachers work with learners from two or more professions and create an environment that enables learners to learn with, from, and about each other to improve collaboration and optimize patient outcomes.

NOTE: for Mentoring Award - Faculty mentors who work with other faculty and learners in medical education, career advancement, or educational research. If you are a learner and would like to find a faculty co-nominator, please get in touch with Stephanie Rennke at [email protected].

Ineligible Nominees

Notification Process

Notification and Recognition Information

  • Recipients and Nominators are notified in August
  • Recipients receive a certificate and letter copied to their department or division chair
  • Recipients recognized at the Academy's Celebration of New Members, Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 2-5pm
    • Open to the UCSF Community - please join us to support UCSF Teachers and UCSF Mentors!
  • Questions? Please contact Karen Brent at [email protected] for AME Teaching and Mentoring Awards, and Wendy Brown, [email protected] for PIPE IPE Award.