The Academy is pleased to continue its award program for scholarly works presented at Education Day: The AME Cooke Award for the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning. The Cooke Award was established in 2007 with funds awarded to Molly Cooke, MD upon her receipt of the AAMC's AOA Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award. Two awards are granted, one to the author of the most outstanding curriculum development project and one to the author of the most outstanding hypothesis-driven educational research project. All submissions to Education Day will be eligible for these awards, which will be accompanied by a certificate and honorarium. Criteria will the same as those summarized on the abstract guidelines page for review of abstract submissions. We look forward to this opportunity to further acknowledge the outstanding efforts by our community of educators at UCSF!

2009 recipient for curriculum development:
Marieke Kruidering-Hall, PhD
Department of Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology
"Teaching Feedback to First-Year Medical Students: Long-Term Skill Retention and Accuracy of Student Self-Assessment"

2009 recipient for educational research:
Anna Chang, MD
Department of Medicine: Geriatrics
"Predicting Failing Performance on the Clinical Performance Examination"