Counselman Receives
'Courage to Teach' Award
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Francis L. Counselman M.D., FACEP |
March 24, 2005
NORFOLK—The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
(ACGME) has awarded its Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Award to
Francis L. Counselman M.D., FACEP, professor and chairman of emergency
medicine at EVMS.
The award commends program directors of residency training programs
for innovative teaching, research and patient care skills. Counselman
was one of 10 program directors selected to receive the award from
among the 7,800 residency programs ACGME accredits.
"I'm incredibly humbled by this recognition," said Counselman, an EVMS
graduate and the EVMS Distinguished Professor in Emergency Medicine.
"Training residents isn't the job of a single person. I have an
excellent faculty and assistant residency director that have helped me
tremendously."
It is his personal and professional commitment to his residents and
emergency medicine education that inspired him to create The Resident
Newsletter, an annual newsletter for current and former residents.
Counselman combines donations received from former residents with
institutional funds he receives as a distinguished professor to
finance the travels of his residents to medical conferences and
courses around the country.
Counselman currently oversees the activities of 27 residents in the
department. He has been director of the EVMS emergency medicine
residency program since 1990 and department chairman since 1992.
"These residents are an amazing group of people," Counselman said.
"That's one reason why being a program director is a great job. I also
get to work with highly motivated, hard-working people, which renews
my enthusiasm about this specialty."
ACGME presented the award at a Feb. 14 banquet in Chicago. EVMS
faculty and colleagues wrote a dozen letters to ACGME in support of
Counselman's nomination for the award.
"In academic medicine it is difficult to find an individual who is
excellent in all three areas [innovative teaching, research and
patient care skills], however, this physician does it all and does it
well," wrote Linda Archer, Ph.D., EVMS associate dean for graduate
medical education, in nominating Counselman.
This is not the first time Counselman has been recognized for his
accomplishments as a leader and mentor. He received the Residency
Director of the Year Award from the Emergency Medicine Residents
Association in 2003, and he received the Heatwole Career Achievement
Award from the Virginia College of Emergency Physicians in 2001. EVMS
honored him in 1999 with the Dean's Faculty Award for Achievement by
Community Faculty.
Counselman currently sits on the ACGME Residency Review Committee for
Emergency Medicine. He is a former president of the Association of
Academic Chairs of Emergency Medicine, the Virginia College of
Emergency Physicians and the Norfolk Academy of Medicine.
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For more information, contact:
Doug Gardner, Director of News and
Publications
EVMS Office of Institutional
Advancement
(757) 446-6070 -
gardneda@evms.edu
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