2024 APCCMPD Awards 
Call for Submissions

Purpose

Members of the Association of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Program Directors (APCCMPD) work diligently to foster excellence through training and mentoring of the next generation of pulmonary, critical care and pulmonary critical care physicians. One way to honor peers who demonstrate excellence in the development of future physicians is through the annual aspirational Outstanding Educator Award (OEA).

This award recognizes an individual who has devoted a major portion of their professional life to enhancing the practice and profession of pulmonary, critical care, and pulmonary critical care medicine through education. The awardee has cultivated achievements for which peer medical educators can aspire. The educator selected for this award has made significant, innovative, and cumulatively outstanding contributions to education. These contributions should include excellence in education beyond the local level, with widespread 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.

The OEA recognizes individuals who are exemplary clinician-educators who have made substantial national contributions at the medical student, resident and fellowship level. National impact can include mentoring that has led to the successful career development as medical educators, or scholarly publications.

Eligibility and Award Criteria

A recipient of the national award will:

• be a pulmonary, critical care or pulmonary critical care clinician who spends most 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 fellowship education. Nominations must reflect excellence in this area above all else.
• be a current or former Program Director or Associate Program Director within an APCCMPD member fellowship program.
• an Associate Professor or above (or equivalent).
• 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 OEA may be self-nominated or nominated by a peer. Individuals who wish to nominate an outstanding educator should first obtain the approval of the prospective nominee.

The OEA 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 OEA 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 OEA will be reconsidered for a subsequent year, as long and as the nominee is eligible. Nominees will be given the opportunity to update their nomination packet annually.
• In years when no OEA candidates are nominated, the APCCMPD BOD reserves the right to award an individual whom they determine meets the Eligibility and Review Criteria, without submission of two Letters of Support.

Awardee Recognition

The APCCMPD will present the OEA recipient with a plaque at the APCCMPD 2024 Annual Conference where the awardee will be given the opportunity to present their favorite medical education lecture. 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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