Six medical residents from the University of Louisville School of Medicine residents have been selected to receive the Arnold P. Gold Foundation Humanism and Excellence in Teaching Awards.

The recipients are chosen annually by third-year medical students based on which residents have exhibited the strongest teaching skills while serving as role models for compassionate, relationship-centered care, said Toni Ganzel, M.D., senior associate dean for students and academic affairs.

This year’s honorees, and their clinical departments, are Kaci L. Durbin, M.D. (Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Women’s Health); Quincy J. Greene, M.D. (Department of Surgery); Ryan T. Hurt, M.D. (Department of Medicine); Romeo C. Ignacio, M.D. (Department of Surgery); Paul B. McKee, M.D. (Department of Family and Geriatric Medicine); and Andrew W. Moore, M.D. (Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health).

The awards were bestowed June 25 during the Student Clinician’s Ceremony, which was held in the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute on UofL’s Health Sciences Center campus. The ceremony itself is a transitional experience designed to provide guidance, information and support to medical students beginning their clerkships, Ganzel said.

Created by the Arnold P. Gold Foundation in collaboration with five medical schools, the event is hosted by students with the assistance of a faculty mentor. It aims to address some of the anxiety felt by students entering their clerkships.

By providing insight, discussing fears and expectations, and revisiting the oath taken during the White Coat Ceremony, the ceremony provides a forum for collective and reflective discussion of the students’ experiences in medicine to date, Ganzel said. The ceremony also underscores the challenges and imperatives to providing humanistic care to patients at the same time as they are pressed to demonstrate high standards of skill performance.