Awards
Each year during the International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE), trailblazing medical educators and resident leaders are recognized for their valuable contributions and accomplishments within the field of residency training, advocacy and practice.
The call for nominations for the 2024 Residency Education Awards is now Closed.
Awards
Each year during the International Conference on Residency Education (ICRE), trailblazing medical educators and resident leaders are recognized for their valuable contributions and accomplishments within the field of residency training, advocacy and practice.
The call for nominations for the 2024 Residency Education Awards is now Closed.
International Medical Educator of the Year Award
This award is given each year to a medical educator who has shown a commitment to improving residency (postgraduate) education. Successful candidates have made innovations to medical education that have had an impact beyond their own program.
2023 award recipient:
- Brian C. George, MD, MAEd, FACS, University of Michigan
International Resident Leadership Award
This award is given each year to an international resident who has shown leadership in residency education and who encourages the development of future leaders in medical education.
2023 award recipient:
- Lauren M. Granat, DO, MS, Cleveland Clinic
Kristin Sivertz Resident Leadership Award
This award is named in honour of the late Dr. Kristin Sivertz, a former program director in Psychiatry and a former co-associate dean of postgraduate medical education at the University of British Columbia.
The award is given each year to a resident who has shown leadership in Canadian specialty education and who encourages the development of future leaders in medicine.
We present up to two awards per year.
2023 award recipients:
- Fatemeh Ramazani, MD, MMEd, University of Calgary
- Brandon Tang, MD, MSc, FRCPC, University of Toronto
Program Administrator Award for Excellence
This award is given each year to a residency program administrator who has shown a commitment to excellence in supporting all aspects of residency education.
Successful candidates work with all aspects of their program and with peers, exemplifying the professional role of the program administrator. In doing so, they embody the values of the CanMEDS-ATA (Applied to Administration) Roles. Typically, recipients have innovated and implemented new processes within their programs that lead to clear improvements.
2023 award recipient:
- Katarzyna (Kathy) Nowak, University of Manitoba
Program Director of the Year Award
This award is given each year to a program director who has shown a commitment to improving residency (postgraduate) education. Successful candidates have made innovations to medical education that have had an impact beyond their own program.
We present up to two awards per year.
2023 award recipients:
- David JA Callen, PhD, MD, FRCPC, McMaster University
- Rob Woods MD MMEd FRCPC DRCPSC, University of Saskatchewan
ICRE Top Paper and Top Poster Awards
Each year, the top research paper; top resident paper; and top What Works papers are selected by a panel of judges.
Top Research Paper 2023
Dr. Robert Woods, University of Saskatchewan – ‘Your comment is not as helpful as it could be…do you still want to submit?’ Using Natural Language Processing to identify the quality of supervisor narrative comments in Competency- based medical education
Top Resident Research Paper 2023
Dr. Rajajee Selvam, University of Ottawa – Integration of planetary health in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education: A scoping review
Top What Works 2023
Ms. Hemasree Yeluru, Eastern Virginia Medical School – A framework to disseminate a clinical leadership curriculum across specialties and institutions
Top Poster 2023
Dr. Mankeeran Dhanoa, University of Saskatchewan – The odd couple: Combining high fidelity simulation with Quality Improvement teaching in residency