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AAMC Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award

Association of American Medical Colleges(AAMC)

The Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award, administered through the Organization of Student Representatives (OSR), annually honors a medical school faculty physician (MD or DO degree) who exemplifies the qualities of a caring and compassionate mentor in the teaching and advising of medical students. The nominee must also embody personal characteristics that are desirable personal qualities necessary to the practice of patient-centered medicine. by teaching ethics, empathy, and service by example.

The goal of the award is to emphasize, reinforce, and enhance the importance of humanistic qualities among medical school students and faculty. The presence of a caring, compassionate, and collaborative learning environment serves as positive reinforcement to prospective physicians of the desirability of such qualities in the doctor-patient relationship.

Each medical school will have the opportunity to nominate one physician faculty member (MD or DO degree). The nomination process will be conducted and supervised by the Organization of Student Representatives (OSR) in each medical school. The OSR representative will be responsible for distributing information to students within his/her institution by announcing the nomination process and describing the selection criteria. The OSR representative will appoint an institutional selection committee composed of medical student representatives of each of the four years of medical study. Upon completion of the selection process, the Dean of Student Affairs will be required to sign off on the institution's nominee. The OSR representative will notify the nominee of the award nomination.

The award selection committee is comprised of a maximum of six OSR Administrative Board members; AAMC OSR staff advises the selection committee. The selection committee will meet during the summer to select the national award recipient.

Timeline

The deadline for nominations is Monday, March 3, 2025, 11:59 p.m. ET.
The selection process will be completed by August 2025.
The award recipient will be notified at the time of selection.
All nominees for the award will be notified of the recipient and status prior to Learn Serve Lead 2025: The AAMC Annual Meeting
The national award recipient will be announced and honored during Learn Serve Lead 2025.

Instructions

Each primary Organization of Student Representative (OSR) in a U.S. AAMC member medical school may nominate one candidate each year. Institutions may resubmit the name of a previously nominated candidate, although the written nomination should be rewritten and not duplicated from the previous year.

The Award

The recipient of the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award will be honored during Learn Serve Lead: The AAMC Annual Meeting and will be invited to speak to the Organization Student Representatives about the importance of humanism in medicine. The award recipient will receive a crystal award piece and a grant of $5,000; $1,000 will be donated to the nominating institution's OSR interest group in support of OSR-related activities related to humanism in medicine.

Specialties

General Medicine

Eligibility Requirements

2025 Call for Nomination.

Selection Criteria

The criteria employed in the selection of the award recipient will include the assessment of his/her professional and personal skills, personal attributes, and professional and academic activities that provide evidence of the following qualities and characteristics:

Positive mentoring skills
Involvement in community service
Compassion/sensitivity
Demonstrates and models the values of diversity, equity and inclusion in their daily work and life
Collaboration with students and patients

Nominations must provide evidence and documentation of the nominee's embodiment of these qualities and characteristics. Nominations should also include academic, mentoring, advising, and counseling activities as well as specific examples of modeling ethics of the profession in addition to community service that demonstrate the nominee's effectiveness in role modeling the importance of these qualities to students, patients, and faculty.

Positive Mentoring Skills

Doctor/patient relationship
Teaching/teaching awards
Positive attitude
Topics – death, dying
Role modeling/leading by example
Reaching out to other faculty
Doing for others, not themselves
How nominee integrates categories into teaching, mentoring, and advising students

Involvement in Community Service

Local v. international (focusing more on local)
Level of service, volunteering, running, establishing projects and/or events (heavily involved)
Non-medical volunteer service; outside scope of core practice
Government service? If it is unpaid.
Choice of working environment (community service may be part of the job); service outside of the job, medical school, and/or academic community
Mentored service – students go out and start clinics under his/her guidance
Length of service, service over time
Service that inspires others to want to do more

Compassion/Sensitivity

Stories about patients/staff
Choice of specialty not a factor
Anecdotes from patients and staff are powerful
Outside realm of patient care – interactions with students and staff
Compassion shown on a regular basis
Bedside manner
Altruism

Collaboration with Students and Patients

Working with colleagues (in addition to other doctors)
Working with students and patients as part of a team
Support/guidance for projects
Unusual texts and/or publications that are collaborative (publications are generally are a part of the job)
Committees – as a member, leader, and/or creator
Extended office hours to accommodate patients and students
Practices patient-centered care
Involved with rehabilitation, chronic illnesses, etc.

Modeling Ethics of the Profession (should be exhibited throughout the nomination)

Bioethics committee – examples of models of behavior
Ethics course
Bedside manner
Empowers students / patients
Shows respect for patients
Models ethics to students and challenges students to think about and reflect on ethics
Quality of life issues (dying patients)

Sponsor Details

Sponsor Institute/Organizations: Association of American Medical Colleges(AAMC)

Address: 655 K Street, NW, Suite 100 Washington, DC 20001-2399 202-828-0400

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