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UNC’s chair of surgery awarded national honor for physician training
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been honored with a national award for his dedication to teaching physicians in training.
Oct. 20, 2004
UNC’s chair of surgery awarded national honor for physician training
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- The chair of the Department of Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been honored with a national award for his dedication to teaching physicians in training.
Dr. Anthony A. Meyer is one of only 10 residency program directors nationwide selected to receive the 2005 Parker J. Palmer “Courage to Teach” award, which is given by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. More than 50 other highly talented program directors were nominated.
“Good patient care depends on the whole doctor showing up, not just the intellect,” said David C. Leach, MD, executive director of the ACGME. “ These program directors are being celebrated because they have systematically promoted the formation of resident physicians in ways that foster humanism as well as exceptional competence.”
The award is named after Parker J. Palmer, PhD, a noted 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 teacher education program that has served as a model for teachers of physicians.
The Parker Palmer award recipients will be honored at a dinner on Feb. 14, 2005 during the ACGME's 2005 winter meeting in Chicago. Award recipients will also be invited to attend an educational retreat next May at the Fetzer Institute in Kalamazoo, Mich.
The ACGME is a private, non-profit organization that accredits about 8,000 medical residency programs in 27 medical specialties that educate nearly 100,000 medical 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.
Note: A photograph of Dr. Meyer may be downloaded at http://www.unchealthcare.org/images/meyer.jpg.
Media contact: Stephanie Crayton, (919) 966-2860, scrayton@unch.unc.edu
