2024 APCCMPD Awards 
Call for Submissions

Purpose

The Mid-Career Educator Award (MCEA) honors mid-career educators who are actively engaged in enhancing the practice and profession of pulmonary, critical care, and pulmonary critical care medicine through education. The medical educator selected for this award is actively making significant and innovative contributions to education. These contributions should include excellence in education beyond the local level, with recognition of the recipient's excellence, which may include teaching, directing, mentoring, writing and speaking abilities, ideally to multiple levels of audiences including medical students, residents and fellowships at the local, regional and national levels. Candidates should be within 5-15 years of fellowship.

Eligibility and Award Criteria

The following serves as guidance for this award. Nominees should:

• have developed a supportive environment for teaching and scholarship.
• have demonstrated a commitment to mentorship and established a track record for successful mentorship.
• have provided instruction on teaching skills such as curricular design, teaching methods, and learning and program assessment.
• be a successful advocate and guide in administrative, organizational, and professional matters for junior clinician-educators.
• demonstrate personal concern for their mentees and support their personal and professional development.
• value teaching within pulmonary and/or critical care medicine.
• demonstrate leadership skills and professionalism.
• place an equal or greater emphasis on the professional development of their trainees than on self-promotion or advancement.

A recipient of the national award will:

• be a pulmonary, critical care or pulmonary critical care clinician, at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor (or equivalent), within 5-15 years of fellowship, who spends a majority of their time serving as a clinician-educator.
• be a clinician-educator whose major portion of time is spent in fellow-level education.
• be recognized by Fellows-in-Training as an outstanding educator and by their peers as having made substantial contributions to the field of medical education through various means at the local, regional and national levels. Nominations must reflect excellence in this area above all else.
• be a Program Director, Associate Program Director, or faculty within an APCCMPD member fellowship program.
• have already made contributions toward APCCMPD’s vision of fostering excellence in training and mentoring of the next generation of educators in pulmonary and critical care medicine by way of contributing to APCCMPD activities.

A recipient may not be:

• a current member of the APCCMPD Board of Directors (BOD).

Nomination Process

Nominees for the MCEA may be self-nominated or nominated by a peer. Individuals who wish to nominate a mid-career educator should first obtain the approval of the prospective nominee.

The MCEA Nomination Form will require the following for completion:

• A brief description of the nominee’s impact as a clinician-educator in pulmonary, critical care, and/or pulmonary critical care fellowship training.
• The names and email addresses of two individuals that have agreed to provide a Letter of Support for the nominee.
• Two (2) Letters of Support that should describe how the nominee has demonstrated excellence as an educator of Fellows-in-Training within pulmonary, critical care, and/or pulmonary critical care fellowship training. This should align with the MCEA Purpose and Eligibility and Review Criteria.
• The nominee’s up-to-date CV.
• A .jpg-format color photograph of the nominee (head and shoulders). Headshots will be used in the APCCMPD 2024 Annual Conference Awards Program. Submitted headshots will not be shared with the Awards Selection Committee (ASC).
• Confirmation that, if selected, awardee will attend the upcoming APCCMPD 2024 Annual Conference to be held February 28-March 1 in Las Vegas, NV.

Selection Process

• The Awards Selection Committee (ASC) will review all nominees. The committee will develop a ranked slate of the top qualifiers, based on the eligibility criteria. The ASC Chair will present the ranked slate of the top qualifiers to the APCCMPD BOD for voting.
• One nominee will be awarded annually.
• Nominees not awarded the MCEA will be reconsidered for a subsequent year, as long as the nominee is eligible. Nominees will be given the opportunity to update their nomination packet annually.
• In years when no MCEA candidates are nominated, the APCCMPD BOD reserves the right to award an individual whom they determines meets the Eligibility and Review Criteria, without submission of two Letters of Support.

Awardee Recognition

The APCCMPD will present the MCEA recipient with a plaque at the APCCMPD 2024 Annual Conference. The APCCMPD will also recognize the awardee (and all nominees) in its quarterly newsletter, on the APCCMPD website, and in the APCCMPD 2024 Annual Conference Awards Program.

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