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"Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Awards" Arnold P. Gold Foundation The Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Awards are sponsored by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation to honor residents, chosen by the students they teach who have exhibited particularly strong teaching skills and are role models for compassionate, relationship-centered care. Despite grueling schedules, these residents have made exemplary efforts to ensure that their students learn both the science and the art of medicine. Each resident receives a certificate, a specially designed lapel pin, and a check for $250. Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Awards are sponsored by the Gold Foundation at schools holding a Student Clinician’s Ceremony (SCC). The SCC is a transitional experience designed to provide guidance, information and support to medical students beginning their clerkships. Created by the Gold Foundation in collaboration with five medical schools, the event is developed by students with the assistance of a faculty mentor, and aims to address some of the anxiety felt by students entering their clerkships. By providing insight, discussing fears and expectations, and revisiting the oath taken during the White Coat Ceremony, the SCC provides a forum for collective and reflective discussion of the students’ experiences in medicine to date. The ceremony also underscores the challenges and imperatives to providing humanistic care to patients at the same time as they are pressed to demonstrate high standards of skill performance. During the year before the ceremony, current third year students chose up to six residents for the Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Awards. At the SCC, students share the comments made about the residents, and the residents then briefly address the class of rising third year students. The Arnold P. Gold Foundation was founded in 1988 by Drs. Arnold and Sandra Gold together with a small group of professional colleagues, dedicated philanthropists and friends, to help nurture the tradition of the caring doctor and to foster humanism in medicine. Currently, The Foundation, which is based in Englewood Cliffs, NJ, supports the creation, development and replication of 26 innovative programs for medical students, medical school faculty, administrators, residents and staff at teaching hospitals, as well as the general public. Foundation programs focus on Recognition and Rituals, Role modeling opportunities, Research, Conferences, Caring Hospital Communities and Curricular Changes. For further information, please visit The Foundation’s website: www.humanism-in-medicine.org or call The Foundation’s office at 201-567-7999. |
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