STFM Diversity Award

This award recognizes an STFM member who promotes innovative leadership, impact, and change that advances diversity, equity, and/or inclusion in family medicine education through the nominee’s work as a family medicine faculty member. Priority is given to work with underrepresented minorities in medical education.

The selection is made by the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Committee and approved by the STFM Board of Directors.

In screening nominations, the DEIA Committee will rank candidates according to their achievements and activities related to training future family physicians to be humanistic caregivers. These achievements and activities will go beyond just the practice or daily teaching of humanistic medicine.

Nominees must be STFM members (self nominations are welcome). Current members of the STFM DEIA Committee are not eligible for the award during their terms of service.

This award is for work that encourages dialogue, promotes reflection, builds community, and inspires action for equity and change. Priority will be given to nominees who are teaching residents and/or medical students the ideals of diversity and who have disseminated these ideals as part of their precepting and patient-, family-, and relationship-centered care.

The activities should have significance at the local, regional, or national level.

Examples include:

Developing and implementing a curriculum to teach diversity
Teaching, work, and or projects that alter the way we think about ourselves, our organization, our work, and others through multicultural perspectives
Leading initiatives to promote diversity in medical education
Promoting an environment that is welcoming, supportive, and nurturing to all faculty, staff, and learners
Partnering with organizations to increase diversity education and training throughout the medical community
Mentoring underrepresented minorities to help eliminate educational barriers
Improving awareness related to diversity, inclusion, bias, and/or health care disparities
Leading efforts to eliminate health inequalities and improve the delivery of equitable, cross-cultural health care in the community
Conducting research about the promotion, the practice, and/or the teaching of diversity
Writing papers that demonstrate the importance of diversity in medical education
Presenting about diversity/equity at conferences

A nominee must be an STFM member (self nominations are welcome).
Prepare the following:
- A statement from the nominator citing the nominee's accomplishments and activities that warrant consideration for the STFM award
- Up to three additional letters of support from both the nominee's home institution (or agency) and from a regional or nationally placed reference, addressing the nominee's national or regional contribution to increasing and teaching diversity in family medicine education
- A sample of his or her work in diversity if applicable (ie, curricular materials, publication reprints, etc.)
- Curriculum vitae of the nominee
Complete the nomination form and compile above materials and send electronically to ksevedge@stfm.org by September 18.

All nominees will be notified in late December.

Recipients for this award will be honored during the STFM Annual Spring Conference. The award winner will receive a commemorative award and a complimentary registration to the STFM Annual Spring Conference.

View the past winners of the STFM Diversity award on our past award winners page.