awards.
Physician Assistant Distinguished Service Award
This award established in 2007 is to recognize achievement throughout the recipient’s career.
Submitting a nomination:
The nominator must submit their name and relationship to the nominee, as well as contact information for both. The nominator must submit an essay to support the reason for nomination. The nominee will be contacted for a CV or biographical summary.
Nomination must be received by August 1st. Award will be presented at the SDAPA winter/spring conference.
Criteria:
- PA must have been actively practicing for 10 years.
- PA must be involved in community service or education.
- PA must be involved in state and national organizations such as SDAPA and AAPA.
- PA may be involved in mentoring or precepting PA’s and/or PA students.
- PA may be involved in research.
- PA may be in the military.
- PA may have written for publication.
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
Physician Assistant Distinguished Service Award Scoring
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.
Categories are as follows:
- Community Service/Education: Up to 25 points awarded
- State and national organizations: Up to 25 points awarded
- Mentoring Physician Assistants/ Physician Assistant students: Up to 25 points awarded
- Research: Up to 15 points
- Military: Up to 15 points
- Publications: Up to 15 points
- Other: 25 points (scorer must justify these ‘discretionary’ points)
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 August 1st, and the award will be presented at the following SDAPA winter/spring 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.
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