Pfizer Teacher Development Awards
This annual award recogizes outstanding, community-based, new family physicians that combine clinical practice with part-time teaching of Family Medicine. Award recipients are selected based on their scholastic achievement, leadership qualities and dedication to Family Medicine.
To Apply
The 2013 Teacher Development Award Application Packet is now available for downloading. The Application Packet must be completed and returned by midnight on April 30, 2013.
Winners Receive
- $2,000 scholarship
- Framed certificate
- $500 stipend for their teaching center to host a recognition ceremony
Please note: Award recipients must complete and return a W-9 form to the AAFP Foundation before a disbursement is made.
Eligibility Requirements
- Member of the American Academy of Family Physicians
- Graduate of an ACGME approved Family Medicine residency program within the last seven years (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 or 2012).
- Community-based family physician who also teaches part-time as a preceptor or teacher of Family Medicine residents and students. Precepting or teaching may occur at the practice location or at another site (i.e., school of medicine or Family Medicine residency). Applicant must practice in community settings/clinics, not in educational institutions or in practices funded or sponsored by an educational institution.
- Part-time teaching is defined as no less than four hours and no more than 32 hours per month, averaged over a year.
- Teach voluntarily or receive no more than $18,000 annual compensation for the educational time devoted to residents and/or students.
Congratulations to the 2012 Award Recipients
We are pleased to announce the 2012 Pfizer Teacher Development Award winners (1-page PDF file; About PDFs)!
Questions? Contact Sondra Goodman, Programs and Grants Specialist or call (800)274-2237, ext. 4457.
This award is made possible by a grant from Pfizer Inc.
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