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Students Laud Gardner as Champion of Humanism in Medicine
Every year the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the Pfizer Medical Humanities Initiative sponsor an award to recognize a faculty physician who exemplifies the ideals of humanism in medicine. Each of the AAMC member schools can nominate one physician. At HMS, nominations are solicited from the entire student body and a student selection committee designates the top candidate.
Photo by Steve Gilbert
First-year Surbhi Grover offers Steven Gardner a bouquet of flowers recognizing his nomination by HMS students for the Association of American Medical College’s national humanism in medicine award.
This year the committee chose Steven Gardner (above), HMS instructor in medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, as the HMS nominee. Described as “a beacon in the eyes of medical students,” Dr. Gardner has distinguished himself as a mentor to medical students and undergraduates considering medicine and as a preceptor for the Primary Care Clerkship. Notably, he has served as the medical director for the Massachusetts Special Olympics and currently is the medical director for the Martha’s Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp. At a reception held on April 28, Dr. Gardner showed poignant photographs illustrating his involvement with these organizations.
Dr. David Hirsh was also recognized at the reception as last year’s nominee. He was chosen for his pioneering work in the development of the longitudinal third-year Primary Care Clerkship at Cambridge Hospital and other contributions to the community. Drs. Richard Mitchell, Kathryn Hayward, Trudy Van Houten, Dana Stearns, Kitt Shaffer, Diane Fingold, Kate Treadway, David Cardozo, Dan Goodenough, Ernesto Gonzalez, and Nadia Nathan were also recognized at the event.
The national 2005 winner will be selected from all the nominations contributed by the AAMC medical schools and announced at the annual AAMC meeting in November 2005.