Annual Student Awards and Faculty Recognition

Each year, as they prepare for commencement and the next step in residency training, the medical school officially welcomes our fourth-year students as WMed alumni and honors the top students from the graduating class during the annual Awards and Alumni Banquet. Faculty are also recognized during the event and honored with awards that are chosen by the students.

The Awards and Alumni Banquet for students in the Class of 2019 was held on Thursday, May 2, 2019, at the CityScape Events Center in downtown Kalamazoo.

Commendations

To graduate, students must successfully demonstrate skills in scholarship, quality improvement, active citizenship in community health, and teaching through work that is integrated as part of the medical school curriculum. Students who choose to pursue additional, optional activities in these four areas are awarded recognition of achieving these skills with commendation.

• Quality Improvement with Commendation
• Research with Commendation

Outstanding Student Awards

Annually, each academic department at the medical school selects one or more outstanding students from the graduating class to be awarded on behalf of the department faculty.

• Department of Anesthesiology
• Department of Emergency Medicine
• Department of Family and Community Medicine
• Department of Medicine
• Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
• Department of Pathology
• Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine
• Department of Psychiatry
• Department of Radiology
• Department of Surgery

CLEAR Awards

Students in each graduating class slect one peer who exemplifies excellence in each area of the medical school's CLEAR mission: Clinician, Leader, Educator, Advocate, and Researcher.

• Clinician Award
• Leader Award
• Educator Award
• Advocate Award
• Researcher Award

Honor Society Inductees

• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society

  The Michigan Epsilon chapter of Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society at WMed recognizes students who have shown dedication to academia, peer teaching, leadership, humanism, and service. Students become eligible for this honor in their third year, and are selected by faculty who are members of the society.

• Gold Humanism Honor Society

  We believe in the importance of developing humanistic future physicians who are dedicated to compassionate, respectful, and empathetic patient care. Students who have exhibited these characteristics while in medical school are inducted into the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Students are nominated for this honor in their third year by their peers.

Scholarship Recipients

• Dean’s Endowed Scholarship
• Peter H. Capelli Endowed Scholarship
• James R. Ryan Family Foundation Endowed Scholarship
• F. Edward Hébert Armed Forces Health Professions (HPSP) Scholarship

Faculty Awards

Prior to commencement, each graduating class presents awards to outstanding medical school faculty.

• Outstanding Basic Science Educator, Foundations of Medicine
• Outstanding Clinical Science Educator, Foundations of Medicine
• Outstanding Clinical Science Educator, Clerkship Director
• Outstanding Clinical Science Educator, Clinical Faculty
• Outstanding Clinical Science Educator, Resident Physician