Congratulations to several members of the Undergraduate Primary Care Education team who were nominated by students for the 2020 Imperial College Union Student Choice Awards.
Dr Arti Maini, Deputy Director of the Undergraduate Primary Care Education Team, received the Award for Outstanding Student Partnership. This award is given to an individual with a student-centred mindset who embraces all aspects of student-staff collaboration from co-creation to co-evaluation. The students who nominated Arti commented that she demonstrates ‘a true understanding of the student perspective and goes above and beyond to create space for them to express their opinions. She is able to create a symbiosis between staff and students.’ Arti is an inspiration for all who she works with and this award is appropriate recognition of her hard work and dedication to students and faculty.
Dr Camille Gajria, Teaching Fellow within the Undergraduate Primary Care Education Team, was shortlisted for the Award for ‘Outstanding Professional Support Staff’. The panel were impressed with how Camille was able to apply her knowledge as a GP to help her students. She was recognised particularly for her engagement and student-centred approach with the Imperial GP Society.
Dr Nichola Hawkins and Dr Nina Dutta were nominated for Student Choice Awards for Outstanding Teaching. Nichola is an out of programme GP trainee in the department and Dr Nina Dutta leads the Year 3 MICA course.
Bethany Golding, community collaborations lead, was nominated for an award for Outstanding Student Partnership. This is particularly impressive as Beth joined the department in January. In the few months she has been here, she has been able to forge important collaborative relationships with students and community to develop our undergraduate courses such that they are better able to target the assets and needs of our local community.
Thank you to all of our students for their nominations and we look forward to continuing these hugely valuable collaborative relationships.