ECME

Call for Nominations

ECME annually recognizes exceptional individuals in medical and health professions education for their work in growing our community of scholars. The awards are presented at the International Congress on Academic Medicine which will happen in April 2024.

Nomination Process – Call for Nominations

ECME annually recognizes exceptional individuals in medical and health professions education for their work in growing our community of scholars. The awards are presented at the International Congress on Academic Medicine which will happen in April 2024.

Each nomination should contain:
1. Name, position, organization of nominee;
2. A short letter (no more than 500 words) describing the ways in which your nominee reflects the above mentioned values of the award sought.

Four nomination letters (from different nominators) may be submitted per nominee; additional nominations will not be reviewed. The nominee should be made aware of their nomination, so they may connect nominators to one another (in order to enable a more coordinated submission).

Nominations are due by March 8, 2024. Late entries will not be reviewed. Please
submit application packages as a single PDF. All nominations should be submitted to:
Sarah.Burm@dal.ca

Early Career Medical Educators (ECME) is a nation-wide community of engaged and collaborative scholars in medical education. We are students, teachers, researchers, clinicians, and leaders in the pursuit of improving education through scholarship. We provide a forum for networking between members as well as connections with senior colleagues and mentors. This includes formal and informal events at the CCME conference where we gather to share and learn from each other as well as more senior mentors in our field.  Our members are actively contributing to CAME in order to grow and support the community of medical and health professions educators in Canada. To join our list serve, please email Dr. Rabia Khan (rabia.khan@ubc.ca).

Our Executive

Co-Presidents:
Jacqueline Torti (Western University) and Rabia Khan (UBC)

Awards Directors:
Sarah Burm (Dalhousie) & Jacqueline Torti (Western University)

Members-at-large:
Sarah Burm (Dalhousie), Mélanie Marceau (Sherbrooke), Elif Bilgic (McMaster), Adam Gavarkovs (UofT), Victoria Boyd (McMaster), Monica Molinaro (McGill)

Alumni Members:
Mahan Kulasegaram, Tim Dubé, Erin Cameron, Sarah Wright, Brent Thoma, Cristian Rangel, Taryn Taylor, Laura Nimmon, Stella Ng, Sayra Cristancho, Teresa Chan, Meredith Young, Kelly Dore, Lara Varpio

ECME also celebrates and recognizes the talents of its members and mentors through the ECME Champion Award and the Mentorship Award. The former recognizes early career researchers with an emerging track record of excellence in medical education and the latter recognizes mentorship and support of junior scholars in the field. Past winners include:

Champion

2023: Dr. Anita Acai & Professor Mélanie Marceau
2022: Dr. Sarah Burm
2021: Dr. Teresa Chan
2020: Dr. Laura Nimmon
2019: Dr. Sayra Cristancho and Dr. Meredith Vanstone
2018: Dr. Stella Ng
2016: Dr. Rachel Blanchard
2015: Dr. Meredith Young

Mentorship
2023: Dr. Kevin Eva
2022: Dr. Meredith Young
2021: Drs. Sophie Soklardis, Dr. Chris Watling
2020: Dr. Lara Varpio
2019: Dr. Lorelei Lingard
2018: Dr. Joanna Bates
2016: Drs. Maria Mylopoulos, Tina Martimianakis, Nicole Woods
2015: Dr. Glenn Regehr