Dr. M. Ian Bowmer Award for Leadership in Social Accountability 2025 ($5,000 Award) – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2025

Nominations are open for the Dr. M. Ian Bowmer Award for Leadership in Social Accountability 2025. The Award was named in recognition of Dr. Bowmer’s a few years of service as the chief director and registrar. It is awarded yearly to at least one medical scholar and one resident who’ve demonstrated management in social accountability throughout the faculties of drugs in Canada.

While management is the flexibility to ascertain new approaches and encourage groups to observe a conceived imaginative and prescient, socially accountable management is a special management paradigm; specializing in capability to interact society with respect and forge a standard imaginative and prescient and place.

Social accountability in medication and medical training requires an appreciation of and constancy to the wants of the inhabitants and society in which we offer care and repair. Consequently, to be socially accountable, the design, supply, and analysis of recent initiatives and instructions have to put shoppers on the centre, by way of consultations in any respect levels of the method. Planning and implementation of such initiatives additionally contain varied acceptable well being companions and a demonstrated data of the cultural context.

Within this total context, to qualify for the Dr. M. Ian Bowmer Award for Leadership in Social Accountability, a nominee ought to display the qualities of management described above. In addition, they need to have responded to a group or broader inhabitants want by consultatively/collaboratively growing a related strategy and imaginative and prescient with events. Through a given initiative, they’ve created an engaged staff or partnership that’s actively pursuing a socially accountable imaginative and prescient and managing its supply.

Award

• Each recipient shall be awarded $5,000 for use for research, books, or e-studying instruments, and/or convention attendance.

Eligibility

• Each college of drugs is requested to submit formal letters of nomination outlining how a trainee has demonstrated socially accountable management throughout their coaching and why they need to be thought of.
• Each college can solely nominate one medical scholar and one resident for this award, for a complete of two nominations. As such, they encourage every college to debate the nominations internally.
• The letter of nomination can come from the dean, affiliate/vice-deans of undergraduate or postgraduate Medical Education, program director and/or school member. Please notice, nominee curriculum vitae is not going to be accepted as part of the nomination course of.

Nomination

The formal letters of nomination have to be submitted electronically to [email protected] no later than April 30 of the present yr.

For extra data, go to Dr. M. Ian Bowmer Award.