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South Dakota Physician Assistant of the Year Award
All voting members of the SDAPA Board of Directors will score each submitted nomination. The nominee with the highest cumulative score will receive the award.
Should a voting member of the SDAPA Board of Directors be nominated for this award, they shall not be permitted to score any nominee’s submissions, nor are they allowed to view any nominee’s submissions.
The point totals will be tallied by the Executive Secretary of the SDAPA and reported to the President of the SDAPA.
Scoring Procedure:
Each voting member of the SDAPA Board of Directors will individually review each nomination and rank each submission by designating the number of the rank to the nominee (ie. If five nominations are made, each nomination will be ranked 1-5, with 5 being the highest rank). These rankings will be confidentially reported to the SDAPA Executive Secretary to be tallied. The nominee with the highest point total will receive this award.
Notice for this award will be printed in the SDAPA newsletter. In addition, an annual mailing will be sent to the supervising physicians of SDAPA members to inform of this award. Nominations will be accepted from any individual that supplies all of the necessary information. This award may or may not be awarded annually. Deadline for receiving applications for this award is February 1st, and the award will be presented at the following SDAPA summer/fall CME conference.
The nominator will be given the opportunity to present this award to the award recipient. Otherwise, the SDAPA President will present the award, or the President’s designee.
To maintain the integrity of this award, scorers are asked to respect the submitted nominee’s information, and any discussion of the information must be confined to the SDAPA Board of Directors only. If an issue arises that needs clarification beyond the SDAPA Board of Directors, the SDAPA President may designate a specific board member to seek out information by communication outside of the SDAPA Board of Directors.
Nominations may be emailed to Mary Nafus, Executive Secretary of the South Dakota Academy of Physician Assistants, or mailed to Mary at the following address:
SDAPA
C/o Mary B. Nafus, Executive Secretary
120 S. Madison Avenue
Pierre, SD 57501
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