"Be worthy to serve the suffering."
-William W. Root, MD - Founder, 1902
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This award recognizes medical schools (and their associated AΩA Chapter) that demonstrate exemplary leadership, innovation, and engagement in fostering an inclusive culture that transforms the ideals of inclusion, diversity, and equity into successful programs that support medical student, house staff, and faculty diversity in service to the community.
This award recognizes and honors outstanding faculty and programs with the best practices in medical professionalism education. Up to three one-time awards of $10,000 will be given based on a national competition. This program solicits nominees with ongoing programs in medical schools and/or affiliated institutions that represent best practices in the teaching and learning of medical professionalism.
In recognition of the services provided by support staff to the workings of local Chapters. Chapter Councilors may nominate a member of the support staff for this award.
To promote basic and clinical research in medical fields, social science, or health services, AΩA awards up to fifty $6,000 fellowships each year to medical students at schools with active AΩA chapters.
This award recognizes and supports the further development of outstanding leaders. Mid-career physicians who provide outstanding leadership within organizations in medicine and health care, including schools of medicine, academic health centers, community hospitals, clinics, agencies, or organizations, with a high promise for future success and contribution are eligible to apply. The applicants must be members of AΩA. Up to three awards of $30,000 to be used for further development as leaders.
To encourage scholarly writing, this awards offers prizes for essays on nontechnical medical topics. Winning essays are published in The Pharos.
Alpha Omega Alpha is committed to preparing future leaders in medicine and health care. Leadership is about making a positive difference and can be learned through education, observation, and experience, and working with leader mentors. Service learning may provide an excellent opportunity for students to develop as servant leaders. Each chapter may submit one proposal for a project funded for two years at $5000 for the first year, $4000 for the second.
To encourage students to write effective poetry. Winning poems are published in The Pharos.
Support to allow residents or fellows to pursue a project in the spirit of the AΩA mission statement. Must be a research project or a scholarly project fulfilling the requirements for scholarly activity by the ACGME. Priority for scholarly projects will be given to those in the areas of leadership, professionalism, and teaching. Others may be considered based on the merits of the proposal. AΩA awards up to ten awards of $2000.
A $4,500 writing prize to honor one of the great leaders in American medicine, the late Robert H. Moser, MD (AΩA, Georgetown University, 1969). This prize will be awarded to an original, outstanding essay that celebrates the life of a physician like Dr. Moser who has enriched the world through his/her careers within, related to, and/or outside of medicine.
Learn MoreEach year, in collaboration with the Association of American Medical Colleges, AΩA presents this award to four outstanding teachers nominated from medical schools in the United States and Canada. Past recipients of the award have developed medical education programs and materials widely adopted in medical school curricula. AΩA presents $10,000 to each award winner, $2,500 to the winner’s teaching institution, and $1,000 to the AΩA chapter of the school.
This program is administered by the AAMC. For more information, visit AAMC’s web site.
Visiting professors can both educate and stimulate students, residents, and faculty during their visits. AΩA provides the opportunity for each Chapter to host one visiting professor per year for a day of activities, including grand rounds, meetings with small groups of students, and delivery of a lecture.
Clinical faculty in community practices devote much time and effort to teaching students and residents, yet their devotion is rarely publicly recognized. This award may be presented annually to up to five doctors in each AΩA Chapter in recognition of their indispensable services.
