CHICAGO, Oct. 27, 2005 – The residency program directors have been selected by the Board of Directors of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to receive the Council’s 2006 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award. The annual award, now in its fifth year, recognizes directors of residency programs for their leadership, dedication to teaching, and creativity and innovation in developing program curricula.
“Good teachers teach who they are – these individuals are being honored not only for their commitment and effectiveness as teachers, but also because they are ideal role models for the next generation, ” said David C. Leach, MD, executive director of the ACGME. “All are unique and they demonstrate to the rest of us what it is like when ‘the whole teacher/doctor shows up.’ "
The 2006 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach award recipients are:
- Steven R. Cohen, MD, dermatology, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
- Deborah Cowley, MD, psychiatry, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
- Karen E. Deveney, MD, general surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon
- Jehan El-Bayoumi, MD, internal medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC
- Ralph Greco, MD, general surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California
- Kirk Keegan, MD, obstetrics and gynecology, University of California, Irvine, Orange, California
- Dorothy Lane, MD, preventive medicine, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
- Shahla Masood, MD, pathology, University of Florida Health Science Center, Jacksonville, Florida
- Kemuel Philbrick, MD, psychiatry, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
- Volker Sonntag, MD, neurological surgery, Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix, Arizona
The award is named after Parker J. Palmer, PhD, a sociologist and educator who wrote The Courage to Teach, a book about the spiritual, emotional and intellectual aspects of teaching. Dr. Palmer also developed a K-12 teacher education program that has served as a model for teachers of physicians.
In the introduction to The Courage to Teach, Dr. Palmer dedicates his book to teachers who love what they do. Dr. Palmer writes “this book is for teachers who have good days and bad – and whose bad days bring the suffering that comes only from something one loves. It is for teachers who refuse to harden their hearts, because they love learners, learning, and the teaching life.”
Noted Dr. Leach, “Dr. Palmer, who has been part of the ACGME family for the past few years, has taught us much about the journey to authenticity as people and as a profession.”
The program directors will be honored Feb. 13, 2006 at an awards dinner held during the ACGME's winter Board of Directors meeting in Chicago. Award recipients will also be invited to attend an educational retreat next spring at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
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The ACGME is a private, non-profit council that accredits 7,800 residency programs
in 27 specialties affecting 100,000 residents. Its mission is to improve the quality
of health care in the United States by ensuring and improving the quality of graduate
medical education for physicians in training.
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