Teaching Excellence Award

The Teaching Excellence Award was set up in 2014 by Deans of Medicine as a way to celebrate and reward exceptional educational scholarship, particularly amongst research intensive universities, across the U21 HSG network.  The Award is our way to recognise leaders in this area and share their areas of good practice across the network.

The Award also helps us to nurture international cooperation, one of U21’s key objectives, by offering faculty from different universities, and regions, to work together on exciting, interdisciplinary projects.  

The two awardees will be required to jointly facilitate a workshop at the next Annual Meeting. Travel costs will be covered by U21 HSG.

2026 Teaching Excellence Award

Applications / Nominations for the 2026 Teaching Excellence Award are open from 23 Feb 2026 to 17 Jun 2026. Two recipients of the award will be expected to facilitate a joint workshop at the U21 HSG 2027 Annual Meeting. Applicants can choose the category that they fall under:

• Emerging Academic (3 to 6 years of relevant teaching experience)

• Experienced Academic (Over 6 years of relevant teaching experience)

Institutions with an internal selection process can ask applicants to first complete an Expression of Interest form before completing a full application. The full application will ask for:

• Evidence about international collaboration in teaching and learning or internationalisation of curricula

• Evidence of contributions to advancing teaching and learning with a particular focus on interdisciplinary teaching and on students’ interdisciplinary learning

• Evidence of sustained teaching excellence and effectiveness

The full application will also ask for supporting documents:

• 1 page letter of support from Dean / Head of School

• 1 page of teaching evaluations

• 1 page of awards / prizes / publications

Keeping to a strict word count and page guidelines for supporting documents will be considered during the review.

2025 Teaching Excellence Award

The 2025 Teaching Excellence Award has closed.

2024 Teaching Excellence Award

We look forward to their joint workshop at the 2025 Annual Meeting. More details to come!

More info from McMaster about Matthew Sibbald: https://lnkd.in/gxaK2vZB?

Video from Rebeca: https://lnkd.in/gBQPjb-y

Read Matthew's and Rebeca's profiles: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9lqR3whQ7n/

2023 Teaching Excellence Award

Thank you to Professors Emma Wilson and Fraide Ganotice for their workshop, “Forging global alliance to work together: Towards a global partnership in interprofessional education and collaborative practice” at the 2024 Annual Meeting.

This workshop showcased examples of partnership working which have advanced and benefitted interprofessional education and practice across local, national, and global contexts. It sparked discussions on how to develop, maintain, and grow productive and effective educational partnerships which enhance student experience and educational quality.