College of Medicine Awards

UAMS College of Medicine Educational Awards
These awards (Master Teacher, Educational Innovation Award, and the Educational Research Award) are selected in early spring. Dr. Richard Wheeler, Executive Associate Dean announces these nomination opportunities by email announcement.  They will also be posted here.

The Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award given by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation is also selected in the early spring. All Faculty members are urged to submit nominations.  A Selection Committee made up of previous winners of the award select the recipient. The award is a certificate and a check for $1,000.  There are no specific criteria for the award, but the faculty members are urged to make the nomination on how closely the nominee comes to the ideals expressed by the Gold Foundation in terms of compassion and empathy.  

Residency Educator Award
The Residency Educator Awards will be given annually by the College to two residency/fellowship program directors who have developed an educational program of high quality.  In general, the program directors must demonstrate commitment to innovations in curriculum and educational experiences, achieve a successful accreditation status and cycle, and have excellent results of internal program reviews and Annual GME Survey ratings. 

The Dean's Residency Award
Participating departments ask residents to choose the best faculty teacher in the spring to present them with this award at a ceremony of their choosing. Each department is responsible for how and when the award is selected. 

Golden Apple Awards - There are four awarded annually - one to a faculty member in each year of the curriculum.  Students are asked to vote on the individual faculty member who has been the "best teacher" for that entire year.  The voting takes place near the end of each academic year.  The recipients are named at the Senior Honors Convocation and each receives a check for $1,000.  At the same time the seniors are voting on the senior Golden Apple Award, they also vote on two other faculty honors:  the faculty member to be the speaker at the Senior Honors Convocation, and the two faculty  members who are elected to "hood" them at the same event.  A faculty member can win both the Golden Apple and one of the other senior awards, but a single faculty member can’t be elected to both hooder and speaker>

Red Sash Teaching Awards are given to faculty members who don't have sufficient votes to win any of the major teaching awards noted above, but who have been nominated by the senior class as excellent teachers.  Individuals who receive the most Red Sash votes are noted as Gold Sash winners.