2024 Student Clinician Awards Ceremony
The annual event celebrated SMD'27 students entering the clerkship phase of their medical education.
The Class of 2027 and faculty gathered for the annual Student Clinician Awards Ceremony at the Claude Moore Medical Education Building on December 20. Awards were presented for academic excellence in the integrated systems (highest performers across all systems—top five percent); the Samuel M. Brooke Award for Academic Excellence in the Hematology System; Collaborative Learning Awards; Merck Pharmaceutical Award (highest four performers across all systems); John Edward Jones Memorial Scholarship; and Faculty Teaching Awards.
Taison Bell, MD served as the keynote speaker for the event. Bell is an associate professor of medicine in the divisions of infectious diseases and international health and pulmonary and critical care medicine at UVA. He is also the vice chair for faculty affairs in the Department of Medicine and director of the UVA Summer Medical Leadership Program.
The UVA Medical Alumni Association provided each student with a leatherbound notebook to encourage writing during the clinical phase, an activity encouraged by Marcia Day Childress, PhD, professor emerita of medical education and Harrison Distinguished Teaching Professor Emerita in the School of Medicine.
During the ceremony, the MAA presented the John Edward Jones Memorial Award, an honor that recognizes outstanding medical students who have demonstrated leadership efforts to eliminate health care inequalities and to address the educational, health care and societal needs of underserved populations. This award was established by the members of the University of Virginia Medical School Class of 2012 in memory of their classmate, John Edward Jones, who tragically died during his second year of medical school. This year’s recipient, Maya Hagander, will receive a $1,000 scholarship award.
