CORE residents honored for their teaching, compassion

Gold Foundation winners considered 'excellent candidates for award'

By Jeffrey Riley

(Athens, Ohio) Three CORE residents received 2010 Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Awards this summer.

The three winners were Mary Carneval, D.O., a surgery resident at South Pointe Hospital in Cleveland; John Weippert, D.O. (’08), an internal medicine resident at St. Joseph Health Center in Warren; and Jenny Guest, D.O., an emergency medicine resident at Doctors Hospital in Columbus.

According to the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, the criteria for the award include demonstrating “commitment to teaching and compassionate treatment of patients and families, students and colleagues.”

“All three nominees were considered by the CORE assistant deans and residency program directors to be excellent candidates for the award,” said Sarah McGrew, B.S.N., director of predoctoral education.

Award winners received a certificate, a specially designed gold lapel pin and a check for $250 from the Gold Foundation.

“As a mentor, Dr. Carneval strives to assist future physicians,” Carneval’s nominator states. “She is approachable and willing to sit down and discuss whatever is on student’s minds.”

“I am so grateful for his guidance and cannot put into words how appreciative I am for his willingness to teach,” Weippert’s nominator says.

According to Guest’s nominator, “She demonstrated cultural competency on a daily basis with patients and their family members. She never judged or assumed, and always listened to everything the patients had to tell her.”

OU-COM students submitted nominations for the awards to their class president at the end of their third-year clinical rotations. The nominations were then reviewed and winners were selected by CORE assistant deans. Up to six individuals can receive the award each year at each participating medical school. The recipients received their awards at the Student Clinician’s Ceremony, July 15, in Athens during the CORE Welcome Dinner.

Across the nation, 50 different colleges and universities participated in the Gold Foundation award program during 2010.

Founded in 1988, the Arnold P. Gold Foundation’s mission states that the organization’s goal “is to perpetuate the tradition of the caring doctor by emphasizing the importance of the relationship between the practitioner and the patient. Our objective is to help physicians-in-training unite the old and the new, becoming doctors who combine the high tech skills of cutting edge medical science and technology with the high touch skills of communication, empathy and compassion.”