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Presidential Award for Excellence in Education

Houston, Texas

The Michael E. DeBakey Center at BCM
Office of Undergraduate Medical Education
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Educational Criteria

  • The Presidential Award is a competitive (norm-based) award. The criteria requires detailed evidence of breadth and exceptional contributions to education.
  • Educational Breadth. This includes but is not limited to: different levels or types of learners; different courses; different styles/formats of teaching; accepted and innovative curricula; internal and external teaching.
  • Stellar and enduring educational contributions to the educational mission of the College. These contributions might include, but are not limited to:

    - direct teaching

    -mentoring

    - educational leadership,

    - educational committee participation,

    - creation of educational materials,

    - educational research, and

    - all areas of educational scholarship which refers to any material, product or resource originally developed to fulfill a specific educational purpose that has been successfully peer- reviewed and is subsequently made public through appropriate dissemination* for use by others.

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