Nominations sought for School of Medicine Teaching Awards

By Jonny Sismanis
University News Services

Nominations are being sought for the seventh annual School of Medicine Teaching Awards.

Four awards are given annually for the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award, the Irby-James Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching, the Educational Innovation/Educational Research Award and the Distinguished Mentor Award.

Members of the VCU community may nominate faculty from the School of Medicine for any of these awards.

The awards were begun in 1998 by H. H. “Dickie” Newsome, Jr., M.D., dean of the School of Medicine, to recognize and reward teaching excellence.

Awards will be presented at a ceremony on Wednesday, Oct. 12, at the Medical Sciences Building Auditorium. The deadline for nominations is July 11. For details and nomination forms, go online at http://www.medschool.vcu.edu/ofid/fd.html.