Division : Temerty Faculty of Medicine
Type : Divisional Teaching Award
More Information : https://md.utoronto.ca/miriam-rossi-award
Description
The Miriam Rossi Award for Health Equity in Undergraduate Medical Education aims to recognize University of Toronto MD Program faculty and administrative staff members for their commitment to diversity and health equity in undergraduate medical education. The award is named after Dr. Miriam Rossi, a pediatrician, teaching faculty, and former associate dean of student affairs in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, and a strong advocate and mentor for minoritized groups and communities. It was established in 2017 in recognition of Dr. Rossi’s outstanding contributions to health equity in medical education. Dr. Rossi led several initiatives to improve diversity in the U of T medical school, in particular the creation of the Summer Mentorship Program (SMP), established to encourage young Black and Aboriginal students, who are under-represented in medicine, to pursue careers in the health sciences. Like many of her contributions, the SMP was developed to help improve equity in the field of medicine, healthcare and society as a whole. The award recipient will receive a certificate of recognition and $250, and may be asked to participate in a workshop or other MD Program event.
Eligibility
- Individuals or groups may be nominated for this award.
- Nominees must either hold a faculty appointment with the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and have taught or held a leadership position in the MD program, or be staff members in the MD Program.
- Nominees should demonstrate outstanding effort in improving the equity environment in the MD Program at the University of Toronto through significant contributions to some of the following: 1. Outreach, partnership, mentorship, recruitment and/or admission activities. 2. Teaching and/or curriculum initiatives that contribute to undergraduate medical education student learning. 3. Teaching, curriculum and/or extra-curricular initiatives. 4. Research initiatives that contribute to health equity knowledge mobilization related to undergraduate medical education 5. Faculty or staff development initiatives that foster and enable health equity teaching by MD Program faculty