Commencement Awards
Leon S. Peters Resident and Fellow of the Year Awards
- The prestigious Leon S. Peters Resident of the Year Award and Fellow of the Year Award is selected by the UCSF Fresno Resident Council and presented at the UCSF Fresno House Staff Graduation Ceremony every year. Both awards are funded by a generous gift from the Leon S. Peters Foundation.
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The prestigious Leon S. Peters Resident of the Year Award and Fellow of the Year Award is selected by the UCSF Fresno Resident Council and presented at the UCSF Fresno House Staff Graduation Ceremony every year. Both awards are funded by a generous gift from the Leon S. Peters Foundation.
Current house staff members can nominate a deserving resident and fellow for this year’s awards. Please provide the Resident Council with the full name and a summary of why the nominee meets one or more of the following criteria:
- Demonstrates an outstanding job in patient and family care.
- Quantifiable success with a research project
- Volunteers their time in the community to provide medical assistance where needed.
- Proven to be a well-rounded physician concerned with their patients, research, and community.
It is important that the Resident Council has a thorough description of why the nominee is deserving of the resident or fellow award.
The Resident Council will select one resident and one fellow as recipients of the Leon S. Peters Resident of the Year Award and Fellow of the Year Award for the 2023-2024 academic year. Each award recipient will receive a $500 monetary award.
House staff may submit ONE nomination per award category, and please no self-nominations.
THE DEADLINE TO SUBMIT NOMINATIONS: Friday, March 15, 2024.
To nominate a resident or fellow, click here:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/0f8ac8a4adc244cbb8a7be715d4208ca
House Staff Awards
- The Community Medical Centers House Staff Awards allow residents and fellows to vote for members of the house staff, faculty, and non-physician staff who exemplify standards of teaching excellence deserving of special recognition.
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Kaiser Teaching Award
The UCSF School of Medicine recognizes exceptional faculty teachers through the Kaiser Teaching Awards. Each year 1 of these distinguished awards is awarded to a UCSF Fresno faculty member. In addition to the recognition, the recipient is honored at the UCSF Fresno graduation and at an awards ceremony held at UCSF. The recipient also receives a monetary award. Every nominated faculty member receives a letter of recognition with personalized comments from the nomination forms.
To nominate a UCSF Fresno faculty member for this prestigious award please use the following criteria:
- Teaches effectively, inspires enthusiasm for learning and stimulates independent, critical thinking
- Sets high expectations, helps students to meet them and provides worthwhile feedback
- Shows respect and concern for students, offering effective guidance
- Demonstrates thorough knowledge of their area of expertise including recent developments in their field
- Has an interest in current and effective approaches to teaching
- Provides learning opportunities that extend beyond the required curriculum
- Teaching activities contribute to the intellectual growth of both the student and the candidate
You can best support your candidate for the award by addressing the strongest characteristics of excellent teaching you believe they possess. When you address these characteristics provide solid evidence and concrete examples. Construct a clear and persuasive argument for how and why your candidate does what the criteria specifies and therefore is deserving of the award. Avoid vague, generalized statements.
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