Charles Mickle Fellowship Award

Nominations for this award are currently closed. Nominations will open again in October 2025.

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:

Teaching Activities:

Breadth and quantity of teaching responsibilities
Quality of teaching/teaching environment as evidenced by teaching recognition and awards, teaching evaluation scores, peer reviews

Scholarship and Research Activities in Medical Education:

Peer-reviewed publications
Research presentations
Quantity and repute of funding/grants received as PI, co-PI or in a senior advisor role; role of nominee on funded projects

Innovation in Teaching, including but not limited to:

Resources, tools or technologies developed to support medical education learners or educators
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
Activities such as faculty development to enhance one's own teaching practice and that of other educators

Evidence of Impact, including but not limited to:

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)
Collaborations with demonstrated impact to the communities the work seeks to support
Mentorship of the next generation of medical education leaders

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

Nomination Process

The nomination must be made by the Chair of the nominee’s department. One nomination per department. Self-nominations are not accepted. Any faculty or staff in the Temerty Faculty of Medicine may work with the nominee to compile the nomination package and solicit the nomination letter from the Department Chair.

Submission Requirements

Nomination Letter (Signed by Department Chair)

Letter must detail the nominee’s qualifications, contributions and impact in each of the above criteria and explaining why the nominee is a worthy candidate. Please ensure this letter is addressed to Dr. Patricia Houston, Vice Dean, Medical Education, and references the award: Charles Mickle Fellowship Award. Page limit: 4 pages.

Two Letters of Support

Letter must provide examples and testimonies that support the nominee’s qualifications, achievement, impacts and worthiness for this award. Page limit: 3 pages per letter.

Nominee's Complete CV

No page limit.

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 April.

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