Departmental Teaching Awards
These awards are presented annually during Psychiatry Grand Rounds. Their purpose is to honor excellence in teaching, supervision, mentoring or related instructional activities in a number of categories designated below. Nominees for each award are selected for their ingenuity, clinical skill, innovation, availability, supportiveness, dedication, humanism, respect for diversity, improvement in the teaching process, and introduction of new important subjects.
There are four dates that are critical in receipt of nominations. Announcement for nominations usually occurs in early February. Early March is ordinarily the deadline for initial nominations. Approximately two weeks later (mid March), a list of nominees for each category is circulated to training directors, the residency council, and chief residents or fellows. It is also made available on department e-mail. This allows busy trainees or faculty, who may have missed the initial deadline or who notice omissions of deserving candidates, to provide last minute nominations and/or to provide unsolicited letters for any current nominees. The final deadline for receipt of nominations usually occurs in Late March.
The Departmental Awards Committee is composed of six faculty (chosen as closely as possible to represent, in one or more roles, residency training, psychology training, clinical services, research labs, and the three major divisions of the department) and six trainees (chosen as closely as possible to represent psychiatry residents and fellows, psychology interns, graduate students, and post-doctoral trainees).
Three names (and addresses) will be solicited from each candidate of trainees or faculty (other than the nominator) who are in a position to write an evaluation for the candidate. The nominee will be advised at the time not to contact potential evaluators because of the potential for coercion inherent to any such solicitation or contact. At the time the nominees are listed, additional unsolicited evaluation letters may be written by any faculty member or trainee who wishes. The committee may also reserve the right not to select an awardee in any category in which qualified candidates are not available.
Criteria for eligibility for each award and those eligible to nominate, are described below (click on title to toggle explanatory text):
Full-Time Faculty Medical Student Teaching
Eligible candidates are full-time faculty in the department who lecture, supervise or tutor in any of the courses for first or second year medical students or in any of the psychiatry clerkship or medical student electives (includes those offered at our V.A. or affiliated medical programs) who have not received the award in the past three years. If you are unsure if your nominee falls into this category, please contact the Office of Education (310-825-0278).
Who can nominate: Medical students in all four years or fellow faculty from above courses.
Who can nominate: Medical students in all four years or fellow faculty from above courses.
Full-Time Faculty Undergraduate/Graduate Student Teaching
Eligible candidates are full-time faculty in the department, who have not received the award in the past three years, who are teaching or supervising in courses listed in the departmental catalogue which are not for medical students or house staff. If you are unsure if your nominee falls into this category, please contact the Office of Education (310-825-0278).
Who can nominate: Undergraduates and graduates from other departments enrolled in our courses, undergraduate or pre- and post-doctoral trainees working in our laboratories or research groups (including those at our V.A. or affiliated institutions), fellow faculty from these courses or labs.
Full-Time Faculty House Staff Teaching
Eligible candidates are full-time psychiatry or psychology faculty in the department who have not received this award in the past three years and who are teaching or supervising psychiatric residents or fellows and/or psychology interns assigned to our clinical services (includes psychiatric services at our V.A. or affiliated hospitals). If you are unsure if your nominee falls into this category, please contact the Office of Education (310-825-0278).
Who can nominate: Psychiatry residents or fellows, psychology interns, fellow faculty from the same clinical service, chiefs of service, or clinic directors.
Full-Time Faculty Research Mentor
Eligible candidates are faculty in the department who are directly supervising research projects of house staff, graduate, or post-doctoral trainees and/or who are providing mentoring to such trainees or to junior faculty (below the rank of associate professor) on research, promotion, or career advancement who have not received this award in the past three years. If you are unsure if your nominee falls into this category, please contact the Office of Education (310-825-0278).
Who can nominate: House staff involved in research projects or electives, graduate or postdoctoral trainees, faculty below the rank of associate professor, research group or lab directors.
Volunteer Clinical Faculty
Eligible candidates are volunteer faculty in the clinical instructor or clinical professor series whose primary work or responsibilities are outside the university (such as private practice, other clinics or hospitals, or public agencies), who have not received this award in the past three years, and teach in courses offered to medical students, undergraduate or graduate students, or house staff; provide individual supervision to psychology interns or psychiatry residents or fellows; or participate in other clinical teaching activities in the Semel Institute or Resnick Hospital (or its affiliated hospitals or clinics). If you are unsure if your nominee falls into this category, please contact the Office of Education (310-825-0278).
Who can nominate: Medical students, graduate or undergraduate students, psychiatry residents or fellow, psychology interns, full-time faculty or other clinical faculty assigned to the same clinic, course, or training activity as the candidate.
Outstanding Teaching Resident or Fellow
Eligible candidates are resident in their final year of general psychiatric training (PGY 4) or child, forensic, geriatric, or other fellows in their final year of clinical training (for example, second-year rather that first-year psychiatry fellows) who have primary teaching or supervisory responsibilities on their service or clinic for medical students, beginning residents, psychology interns, or other junior house staff or trainees.
Who can nominate: Medical students, psychiatric residents in PGY 1-3, psychology interns, full-time faculty or other clinical faculty assigned to the same clinic or service.
Note that, occasionally, sensitive issues may arise when trainees, junior faculty, or friends of nominees feel pressure, directly or indirectly, either to nominate or provide a letter or evaluation for a nominee. Faculty or trainees eligible for teaching awards are reminded that any attempts to solicit their own nominations may place trainees or junior faculty members in an awkward position because of possible coercion inherent in such a relationship and may therefore be detrimental to their selection. On the other hand, chiefs of clinical services, training directors, laboratory coordinators, course directors, chief residents or fellows, or others in administrative positions involving trainees, are encouraged to remind trainees or junior faculty of the deadlines and procedures for Teaching Awards in order to encourage careful deliberation and consideration of all potential nominees in their purview.
For more information or additional nomination forms, please contact Sherrie Martinez (Office of Education, C8-237 NPI, phone (310) 825-0278, e-mail sbmartinez@mednet.ucla.edu)
Deadlines
Announcement of Teaching Awards are sent to all faculty and trainees (and posted on departmental e-mail) during the week of February 11.
Nominations (on the departmental nomination form) are due March 7.
Initial nominations will be listed for each award and circulated during the week of March 17, with a reminder that, along with any new nominations, unsolicited letters for currently listed nominees may also be submitted.
Additional nominations will be accepted up until March 31.
Additional nominees will be listed on departmental e-mail, and all nominees will be contacted for names and addresses of potential trainee or faculty evaluators during early to mid April and requests for letter will be sent in mid to late April. The final deadline for both solicited and unsolicited letters will be May 16.
The Awards Committee will make their selections at a meeting in Late May/Early June. Awards will be presented June 17th at a Departmental Grand Rounds.
Eligibility
A candidate for the Departmental Teaching Award must be a faculty member in the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences (clinical faculty included) or a fellow/resident in the Department. (For additional details on each award and/or eligibility, please contact the training office below.)
Award Categories
Nominations may be made in the following categories:
- Full Time Faculty Medical Student Teaching
- Full Time Faculty Undergraduate Student Teaching
- Full Time Faculty Graduate Student Teaching
- Full Time Faculty Housestaff Teaching
- Full Time Faculty Research Mentor
- Volunteer Clinical Faculty
- Outstanding Teaching Resident or Fellow
Nominations Forms
Nomination forms (in PDF format) can be downloaded from www.psychiatry.ucla.edu/pdf/2008_ta_nom_form.pdf (requires Adobe reader) and are also available upon request from the Office of Education, Room C8-237 NPI&H (310 825-0278, e-mail sbmartinez@mednet.ucla.edu).
Nominations may be made by students, staff, and other faculty members. Potential nominees are asked not to solicit their own nominations or supportive letters, since it may put trainees or colleagues in an awkward situation; but chief residents or fellows, training directors, course coordinators, and others are strongly encouraged to remind colleagues and trainees about the nomination process.
Initial nominations for the 2007-2008 Awards must be received no later than March 7, 2008. Submit completed nomination forms to:
Office of Education
C8-237/C8-238 Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital
UCLA, 760 Westwood Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1759
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