Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring Awards

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 stephanie.rennke@ucsf.edu.

Ineligible Nominees

Teaching Awards:

• Excellence in Teaching Awardees Award from the past three years (2021, 2022, and 2023)
• Past IPE Excellence in Teaching Awardees and Excellence in Mentoring Awardees
• Academy of Medical Educators Members

Mentoring Award:

• None

UCSF faculty members who are among the following:

• Members of the Academy of Medical Educators
• Department or Division Leadership (e.g., Vice Chairs for Education, Vice Chair for DEI, Division Chief, or another appointment)
• Residency/Fellowship Program Directors
• Associate Program Directors
• Site Directors
• Specialty Coordinators
• Clerkship Directors
• Course Directors/Faculty Leads/Faculty of Record
• SOM Coaches
• NOTE Mentoring Award Nominations Only: Learners (students, residents, trainees, etc.) may nominate with a faculty co-nominator.

Essential elements of the narrative portion of the nomination:

• Demonstrate how your nominee is a leader in professionalism and models equity and inclusion, exhibiting UCSF PRIDE Values
• Excellence in Teaching Awards: Attests to the nominee's teaching qualities and characteristics
• 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

Mentoring Award: Essential elements of the narrative portion of the nomination:

• 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 Award is 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.

Submission Guidelines:

• Each nomination requires two faculty nominators
• Nominee can be within or outside your department/school
• Faculty can submit one primary nomination and one secondary nomination for any award
• Narrative is capped at 3500 characters - and is submitted as one letter from the primary and secondary nominators.

To be considered for the Excellence in Teaching Award

• Demonstrate how your nominee is a leader in professionalism and models equity and inclusion, exhibiting UCSF PRIDE values
• Demonstrate nominee's daily dedication to education
• Describe how the nominee demonstrates a growth mindset 
• Demonstrate how the nominee teaches in a manner that creates and encourages an intellectually stimulating environment which promotes critical thinking and learning.

To be considered for the Interprofessional Teaching Award

• Demonstrate how the nominee teaches in a manner that:
• Creates a learning environment that enables learners to learn with, from and about each other to improve collaboration and patient care
• Teaches to interprofessional competencies:
• Use the knowledge of one’s own role and the roles of other health professionals to appropriately assess and address the health care needs of the patients and populations served.
• Communicate with other health professionals in a responsive and responsible manner that supports a collaborative approach to the maintenance of health and the treatment of disease in individual patients and populations.
• Work with other health professionals to establish and maintain a climate of mutual respect, dignity, diversity, ethical integrity, and trust
• Models equity and inclusion 

To be considered for the Excellence in Mentorship Award                        

• Demonstrate how your nominee advances equity and inclusion through mentorship, exhibiting UCSF PRIDE Values    
• Demonstrate the nominee’s dedication and excellence in mentorship through the following: accessibility, motivation, communication, feedback, building networks and support of creative activities 
• Include evidence of a commitment to mentoring relationships that result in career growth and/or personal development of mentees
• Describe specific mentorship accomplishments and specify mentor’s role (coach, scholarly/project mentor or career mentor) 

Review Process

• Academy Excellence in Teaching Committee
• Academy Mentoring Action Group
• PIPE Professional Development Committee

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 karen.brent@ucsf.edu for AME Teaching and Mentoring Awards, Raquel Rodriguez-Piscitello, MBA at raquel.rodriguez@ucsf.edu (AME Mentoring Award, and Wendy Brown, wendy.brown@ucsf.edu for PIPE IPE Award.