The Group on Regional Medical Campuses (GRMC) Star of Educational Innovation and Star of Community Achievement Awards recognize the significant efforts of regional medical campuses to development programs that help students and strengthen ties with the communities they serve. All Awards are selected by the GRMC Steering Committee.
The Star of Educational Innovation
The Star of Educational Innovation is awarded to a Regional Medical Campus which has achieved a sustainable and measurable educational impact within the nominated student, resident, or faculty development program. Of particular interest to the GRMC are innovative education models which (1) provide value-added experiences to complement the medical curriculum and (2) utilize a research methodology to derive evidence-based standards for documenting benefits and impact. Strongest consideration will be given to those submissions where there is consistent positive impact for their program over time and where there may be reproducibility by other campuses.
The Star of Community Achievement
The Star of Community Achievement award goes to a campus that has developed a program which has positively impacted the community it serves. The GRMC is particularly interested in innovative educational and research programs which position the Regional Medical Campus to serve as a model for transformational change in either (1) improving the health status of its community or (2) achieving its social mission through collaboration with its community.
GRMC Star Award Recipients
2022
Star Awards for Community Achievement
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, Fresno
UCSF Fresno Mobile HeaL COVID-19 Equity Project
Kenny Banh, MD, Assistant Dean, UCSF Fresno and Medical Director, UCSF Fresno Mobile HeaL
Medical College of Wisconsin - Central Wisconsin
Physician in the Community Scholarly Pathway
Jacob Prunuske, MD, MSPH; Assistant Dean for Clinical Learning, Professor of Family & Community Medicine; Medical College of Wisconsin - Central Wisconsin
Star Awards for Educational Innovation
University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Branch Campus
Establishment of an Experiential Health Policy & Advocacy Elective Rotation for 4th Year Medical Students
Kelly Breffle, MHA, Administrative Director, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine Branch Campus
University of North Carolina School of Medicine Asheville
University of North Carolina School of Medicine Asheville Campus: Ethics and Humanism
Robyn Latessa MD; Associate Dean and Campus Director, UNC School of Medicine Asheville, Chief Academic Officer, UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC
2020
The Star of Community Achievement
University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus
For building educational capacity with Native American Communities
Paula M. Termuhlen, MD, Regional Campus Dean, University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth Campus
The Star of Educational Innovation
University of Louisville School of Medicine Trover Campus
For the work of building a comprehensive educational pathways program at a rural campus and addressing the rural workforce by reinforcing a sense of place.
William J. Crump, M.D., Associate Dean, U of L School of Medicine Trover Campus
2018
The Star of Community Achievement
Southeast Georgia Regional Campus at the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University
For the creation of the Student Unit of the Medical Association of Georgia’s Medical Reserve Corps, designed to assist Georgia's Department of Public Health and FEMA as part of the state's medical disaster response team.
Frances Purcell, PhD, Unit Commander – MAG MRC; Assistant Dean for Curriculum, Southeast Regional Campus of the Medical College of Georgia
The Star of Educational Innovation
University of Alabama at Birmingham-Huntsville
For the Huntsville Rural Pre-medical Internship program - a 7-week summer program emphasizing rural primary care medicine in Alabama.
David Bramm, MD, Director, Rural Medicine Pipeline Programs
William H. Coleman, MD, PhD, Director, Office for Family Health Education & Research
Paula Clawson, Program Manager, Huntsville Rural Premedical Internship
2017
The Star of Community Achievement
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Northwest Regional Campus
For the student-led interprofessional care program at the North Street Clinic.
Pearl A. McElfish, PhD, MBA, Associate Vice Chancellor, Northwest Arkansas Region and Director, Office of Community Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
The Star of Educational Innovation
University of Washington School of Medicine-Gonzaga University Regional Health Partnership
For work ncorporating humanities into medical education to promote humanistic skills and professional conduct in physicians.
Darryl Potyk, MD, FACP, Associate Dean for Eastern WA, University of Washington School of Medicine
2016
The Star of Educational Innovation
Niagara Regional Campus of the Michael G. Degroote School of Medicine, McMaster University
For promoting scholarship through development of a positive research culture.
The Star of Community Achievement
Montana Regional Campus of the University of Washington School of Medicine
For promoting student involvement in quality improvement and research skill and development.
2014
The Star of Educational Innovation
UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program
"Joint Medical Program"
Amin Azzam, M.D., M.A., Associate Clinical Professor, UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program
The Star of Community Achievement
University of Louisville School of Medicine, Trover Campus
"Rural Community-Academic Partnership, Rural Medicine Accelerated Track"
William J. Crump, M.D., Associate Dean, University of Louisville School of Medicine, Trover Campus
2013
The Star of Educational Innovation
University of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine
"Yankton Ambulatory Program"
Lori A. Hansen, M.D., Avera Sacred Heart Yankton Campus Dean
The Star of Community Achievement
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University
"Community Health Program”
Barbara L. Schuster, M.D., M.S., Campus Dean, Georgia Regents University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership
The Star of Community Achievement
University of Washington, School of Medicine
"Targeted Rural Underserved Student Track (TRUST)"
John McCarthy, M.D., Assistant Dean, Regional Affairs – Eastern/Central Washington
Jay Erickson, M.D., Assistant Dean, Regional Affairs – Montana
2012
The Star of Educational Innovation
The Florida State University College of Medicine
"Humanizing the Legal Risk Management Education of Medical Students: A Collaborative Project of Central and Regional Medical Campuses"
Dennis Baker, Ph.D., M.Ed., Associate Dean for Faculty Development
Gregory Turner, Ed.D., M.B.A., M.P.H., Assistant Dean of Faculty Development
Marshall Kapp, J.D., M.P.H., Director, Florida State University Center for Innovative Collaboration in Medicine & Law
The Star of Community Achievement
Université de Moncton
"Centre de formation médicale du Nouveau-Brunswick"
Aurel Schofield, M.D., Founding Director
2011
The Star of Educational Innovation
West Virginia University School of Medicine
"Family Medicine Rural Scholars Program"
C.H. Mitch Jacques, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Vice President and Dean, Eastern Division
The Star of Community Achievement
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Regional Academic Health Center
"The South Texas Environmental Education and Research (STEER) Program"
Leonel Vela, M.D., M.P.H., Regional Dean and Professor