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The Essential Core Teaching Award (ECTA) recipients were honored for their contributions to medical student education during the Class of 2011 Essential Core Teaching Awards Ceremony on April 14. Recipients are selected by UCSF medical students solely on the basis of student nominations, which provide students with an opportunity to acknowledge, thank and help those teachers that have made such a difference in their medical education. Awards and nominations are not just a personal honor, but are also taken into consideration in tenure and promotion decisions.

The Class of 2011 Essential Core Teaching Award Recipients included:
Excellence in Small Group Teaching- Richard M.Locksley, MD
Excellence in Small Group Teaching- Joan E.Etzell, MD
Excellence in Small Group Teaching- Elizabeth Robbins, MD
Outstanding Foundations of Care Preceptor- Lisa U. Pascual, MD
Outstanding Foundations of Care Preceptor- Philip J.O’Keefe, MD
Outstanding Lecture- Daniel H.Ciccarone, MD
Outstanding Lecture Series- James H.McKerrow, MD, PhD
Innovative Teaching- Peter H.Sayre, MD
Inspirational Teacher- Peter V.Chin-Hong, MD, MAS
Outstanding Contribution to an Elective- Aubrey Gilbert, PhD, MS3
Commitment to Teaching- Elizabeth A.Donegan, MD

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