Awards Database
Medical Education and Teaching Awards
About
The Temerty Faculty of Medicine is home to some of the world’s foremost medical educators and education researchers and scholars. We are proud of the passion, commitment and innovation that our faculty members bring to their diverse roles, and we celebrate their achievements in a number of ways.
Our Faculty offers over 50 internal awards to recognize significant contributions to medical education across the medical education continuum. We also nominate outstanding faculty and staff members for prestigious institutional, provincial, national and international awards. We recognize award recipients annually at the Education Achievement Celebration, an evening ceremony hosted by the Vice Dean, Medical Education.
How to use this database
Use the database below to find education-focused awards offered at the Faculty, University, national, and international levels. More than one filter can be applied in each of the criteria below.
If you are unsure about the suitability of a given candidate for an award, please book a consultation with the Research, Awards & Honours Officer in the Office of the Vice Dean, Medical Education. This database is updated regularly. Where there is any discrepancy between the database information and the linked award criteria, refer to the award criteria.
When to submit nominations
Nominations for most awards occur in two cycles: Fall (opens in mid-September) and Spring (opens in mid-March). You can filter by cycle below. To receive the call for nominations, sign up to our medical education awards mailing list.
Nominations are currently closed.
Nominations for spring cycle awards will open in mid-March 2026.
Medical Education & Teaching Awards Database
Sarita Verma Award for Advocacy & Mentorship in Postgraduate Medicine
This award recognizes clinical academic staff or faculty members who exhibit an exemplary level of leadership and commitment to social responsibility, mentorship, advocacy, and resident well-being.
Type: Individual or Group
Financial prize: Yes
Social Responsibility Award In Postgraduate Medical Education
Recognizes outstanding contributions of faculty members and medical residents/fellows in the development and/or implementation of socially responsible initiatives, programs or research related to postgraduate medical education.
Type: Individual
Financial prize: Yes
Sustained Excellence and Innovation in Life Sciences Education
This award recognizes sustained contributions (at least 15 years of all undergraduate appointments as of December of application year) to any aspect of undergraduate education.
Type: Individual
Financial prize: Yes
Sustained Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentorship
This award recognizes sustained contributions (at least fifteen years of all graduate memberships as of December of application year) to any aspect of graduate teaching.
Type: Individual
Financial prize: Yes
Temerty Awards for Excellence in Professional Values
Recognizes a faculty member from clinical medicine that contributes to strengthening our shared professional values through their behaviour, communications, relationships, and academic, clinical, and administrative endeavours.
Type: Individual
Financial prize: Yes
Temerty Awards for Excellence in Professional Values
Recognizes a faculty member from basic sciences that contributes to strengthening our shared professional values through their behaviour, communications, relationships, and academic, clinical, and administrative endeavours.
Type: Individual
Financial prize: Yes
Temerty Awards for Excellence in Professional Values
Recognizes a faculty member from rehabilitation sciences that contributes to strengthening our shared professional values through their behaviour, communications, relationships, and academic, clinical, and administrative endeavours.
Type: Individual
Financial prize: Yes
U of T Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award
Recognizes faculty members who are effective teachers and demonstrate an exceptional commitment to student learning, pedagogical engagement, and teaching innovation. Faculty members who have completed two years of teaching at the University of Toronto in their current continuing-stream appointment are eligible to be nominated for the Cheryl Regehr Early Career Teaching Award. This includes tenure-stream Assistant Professors, teaching-stream Assistant Professors, and full-time clinical faculty within the first six years of their continuing-status appointment.
Type: Individual
Financial prize: Yes
Process:
- As this is an external award, candidates are first adjudicated at the faculty level to select the official nominee that will be put forward on behalf of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.
- The first stage of the adjudication requires a simpler version of the official nomination package. You can download a preview of the nomination form here.
- If chosen as the official Temerty nominee, the Office of the Vice Dean, Medical Education will support the nominee to develop their full nomination package.
- Please direct any questions to medicine.awards@utoronto.ca rather than to the organization offering the award.
Recent Temerty recipients:
2023
- Jasty Singh, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Department of Immunology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
2022
- George Ibrahim, Associate Professor, Full-Time Clinical Appointment, Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
2020
- Danielle Bentley, Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream, Division of Anatomy, Department of Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
U of T Northrop Frye Awards for Excellence
Recognizes faculty and staff who have contributed to enhancing and re-imagining the student learning experience. The Northrop Frye Award is open to teams of faculty and / or librarians and / or staff who have undertaken a teaching and learning project within the last five years that significantly enhanced the student learning experience.
Type: Group
Financial prize: Yes
Process:
- As this is an external award, candidates are first adjudicated at the faculty level to select the official nominee that will be put forward on behalf of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.
- The first stage of the adjudication requires a simpler version of the official nomination package. You can download a preview of the nomination form here.
- If chosen as the official Temerty nominee, the Office of the Vice Dean, Medical Education will support the nominee to develop their full nomination package.
- Please direct any questions to medicine.awards@utoronto.ca rather than to the organization offering the award.
Recent Temerty recipients:
- N/A
U of T President’s Teaching Award
Recognizes sustained and ongoing excellence in three interrelated areas:
- Educational Leadership
- Teaching Excellence
- Educational Innovation
Type: Individual
Financial prize: Yes
Process:
- As this is an external award, candidates are first adjudicated at the faculty level to select the official nominee that will be put forward on behalf of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.
- The first stage of the adjudication requires a simpler version of the official nomination package. You can download a preview of the nomination form here.
- If chosen as the official Temerty nominee, the Office of the Vice Dean, Medical Education will support the nominee to develop their full nomination package.
- Please direct any questions to medicine.awards@utoronto.ca rather than to the organization offering the award.
Recent Temerty recipients:
2025
2024
2023
- Denise Belsham, Department of Physiology
- Sharon Switzer-McIntyre, Department of Physical Therapy
2022
- Sanjeev Sockalingam, Department of Psychiatry