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AAMC Humanism in Medicine Award Selection Criteria Additional Information
Additional information considered for each of the five main categories:
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 person integrates 5 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 (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
- 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)
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