UAMS Professor Receives Palmer Award
| LITTLE ROCK – Gordon E. Schutze, M.D., director of the Pediatric Residency Program at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Arkansas Children’s Hospital, is one of only 10 medical residency program directors in the country to receive the 2004 Parker J. Palmer Award from the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
Schutze, a professor of pediatrics and pathology in the UAMS College of Medicine, received the award for his innovative approaches to educating physicians-in-training. ACGME selected the 10 award winners from a pool of 115 nominees and will honor them at the organization’s board of directors meeting in February. The award is named after Parker J. Palmer, Ph.D., a noted educator, sociologist and author of The Courage to Teach.
ACGME Executive Director David C. Leach, M.D., praised award recipients: “The awardees have demonstrated their capacity to be fully present to residents and patients, thereby providing a model for all of us.”
Schutze oversees two chief residents, 56 pediatric residents and 20 medicine/pediatric residents each year. He is also director of the UAMS Pediatric Infectious Disease Subspecialty Residency Program and medical director of the Clinical Microbiology and Virology Laboratories at Arkansas Children’s Hospital. Arkansas Children’s Hospital is a major clinical, research and teaching affiliate of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). UAMS College of Medicine pediatric faculty physicians and surgeons are on staff at Arkansas Children’s Hospital.