About the Award
The Award for Excellence in Education is a peer recognition award funded by the Kaiser Foundation which is focused on medical student education and designated for faculty members who have:
- Carried an exceptional teaching load, including medical student teaching, with sustained excellence over the years
- Created educational innovations
- Managed an educational component with skill, innovation, enthusiasm, and success
- Played a key role in interdepartmental educational activities
Award recipients receive a cash grant ($1000 from 91-99, $1500 starting in 2000) and a plaque. Additionally, the names of the recipients are added to the Distinguished Educator's Wall at the entrance to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA to signify the importance of this contribution to the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. All full-time faculty at any rank and in any series who have not received the Award for Excellence in Education in the past three years are eligible for nomination. Nominations are reviewed by a multi-disciplinary faculty committee comprised largely of those who have won the award in the past. No specific number of awardees need be selected in any one year. The criteria for selection include: impact on the school, exceptional commitment, innovation, sustained effort, student recognition and/or adaptation by other schools.