Charles Mickle Fellowship Award

Nominations are now open! Deadline: December 15, 2025 at 11:59 pm.

About

The Charles Mickle Fellowship Award was established in 1921 to advance and promote sound medical knowledge. The award recognizes senior faculty who have made exceptional contributions to medical education at the University of Toronto throughout their careers. One award is presented annually at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine Education Achievement Celebration.

Eligibility Criteria

Nominee must be a physician who demonstrates exceptional and sustained contributions to medical education at the University of Toronto, including contributions to undergraduate, postgraduate and/or continuing professional development and faculty development.
An individual can only be awarded the Charles Mickle Fellowship award once.

Selection Criteria

Nomination packages should:

Provide specific evidence of the contributions and impact of the nominee’s activities over the course of their career, with a focus on the preceding 10 years.
Detail the impact of these contributions at the institutional, national, and/or international level.

Nominees will be evaluated based on evidence of the following criteria demonstrated in the 10 years preceding their nomination. Expand the criteria below for examples of the kinds of evidence the committee will look for:

Leadership and Administrative Roles in Medical Education:

Holding formal positions of responsibility that advance medical education curricula or operations
Participation in committees and working groups that support the activities of medical education
Supporting mentorship of others who are working in the field of medical education and scholarship

Evidence of Impact:

Changes in practice or process initiated or inspired by the nominee’s work
Impact of nominee’s scholarship (impact of publications, conference presentations, invited talks) and/or of innovations (adoption by others, iteration, positive evaluations) that have advanced the field of medical education
Collaborations with demonstrated impact to the communities the work seeks to support
Mentorship of learners and faculty in medical education

Teaching Activities and Contributions in Medical Education:

Breadth and quantity of teaching responsibilities in any area of medical education (including undergraduate, postgraduate, continuing professional development, faculty development)
Quality of teaching/teaching environment as evidenced by teaching recognition and awards, teaching evaluation scores or speaker evaluations, peer reviews
Invited national or international presentations/plenaries relating to medical education
Contributions to program and/or curriculum development in medical education

Scholarship and Research Activities in Medical Education:

Peer-reviewed publications in the field of medical education
Scholarly/research presentations in the field of medical education
Quantity and repute of funding/grants received as PI, co-PI or in a senior advisor role, specifically in the field of medical education; role of nominee on funded projects

Innovation in Teaching:

Resources, tools or technologies developed to support medical education learners, educators, and/or health professionals
Innovative partnerships and collaborations that support medical education, within and beyond the Temerty Faculty of Medicine and across the continuum of medical education
Novel practices, procedures, or teaching strategies that advance medical education, including professional development
Activities such as faculty development to enhance one's own teaching practice and that of other educators

How to Submit a Nomination

Nominations are accepted until December 15, 2025 at 11:59 pm.

All nominations must be submitted using the online nomination form. Nominations can be completed by anyone within the Temerty Faculty of Medicine with knowledge of the nominee’s work.

When completing the form, you will be asked to provide the following:

Impact Statements

Short statements (up to ~300 words each) describing how the nominee meets each of the criteria listed above (expand the award category above to review the relevant criteria). For each, include examples of impact. Impact as it relates to each criterion may include but is not limited to: changes in knowledge, perspectives, practices, or policy; scaling/replication; innovation; advancing EDIIA.

Confirmation of Leadership Support

When completing the nomination form, you will be asked to confirm that the Department Chair or Vice Chair, Education is aware of and supports this nomination on the basis that the nominee's accomplishments align with the award criteria. There is no limit on how many nominations per department.

Two peer testimonies

Provide two short peer testimonies of up to ~300 words each. These personal testimonies should be provided by a colleague, collaborator or supervisor and should describe the writer’s support for the nomination. This is not meant to be a summary of the nominee's merits and accomplishments but rather highlight specific experiences the writer has had with the nominee, and how these impacted them or a group, institution or discipline. Examples are stronger than adjectives.

CV

Standard U of T format.

Selection Process

Nominations will be reviewed and ranked by a sub-committee of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine Education and Teaching Awards Committee. The nominating Department Chair and winner will be notified in February. The award winner will be recognized at the Temerty Faculty of Medicine’s Education Achievement Celebration, taking place annually in the Spring.

If you have any questions, please contact the Office of the Vice Dean, Medical Education. 