CHICAGO, Oct. 12, 2004 – Ten residency program directors have been honored with the ACGME’s 2005 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach award. The annual award honors residency program directors for their dedication to teaching physicians in training.
“Good patient care depends on the whole doctor showing up, not just the intellect,” said David C. Leach, MD, executive director of the ACGME. “These program directors are being celebrated because they have systematically promoted the formation of resident physicians in ways that foster humanism as well as exceptional competence.”
The award is named after Parker J. Palmer, PhD, a noted sociologist and educator who wrote The Courage to Teach, a book about the spiritual, emotional and intellectual aspects of teaching. Dr. Palmer also developed a teacher education program that has served as a model for teachers of physicians.
The Parker Palmer award recipients will be honored at a dinner on Feb. 14, 2005 during the ACGME's 2005 winter meeting in Chicago. Award recipients will also be invited to attend an educational retreat next May at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The 2005 Parker J. Palmer “Courage to Teach” award recipients are:
- Patricia Blanchette, MD, geriatrics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Francis Counselman, MD, emergency medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Va.
- Daniel Dedrick, MD, anesthesiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Mass.
- Richard Dow, MD, general surgery, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, N.H.
- David George, MD, transitional year, The Reading Hospital, Reading, Pa.
- Mark Juzych, MD, ophthalmology, Kresge Eye Institute, Detroit, Mich.
- Teresa Massagali, MD, physical medicine and rehabilitation, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
- Anthony Meyer, MD, general surgery, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
- Glenn Newell, MD, internal medicine, UMDNJ - Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Camden, N.J.
- Eric Scher, MD, internal medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, Mich.
For information on nominating a residency program director for the 2006 Parker Palmer awards, please contact Marsha Miller, ACGME associate executive director, at 312.755.5041.
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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits 7,800 residency programs
in 27 specialties affecting 100,000 residents. Its mission is to improve the quality
of health care in the United States by ensuring and improving the quality of graduate
medical education for physicians in training.
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