When Excellence and Teaching Meet

At the ceremony, attended by Hillel Yaffe Medical Center staff, management and the leadership of the Technion Faculty of Medicine in Haifa, awards for excellence in teaching in the past year were presented to the medical center's outstanding performers by the Technion’s Faculty of Medicine.

The physicians who excelled are from the following departments: Pediatrics, Neonatology and NICU, Mental Health, Gynecology and Obstetrics, Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, ENT, Orthopedics, General Intensive Care, Ophthalmology, Cardiology and Plastic Surgery. The outstanding departments were the Pediatrics Department, Cardiology Division and Plastic Surgery.

Additionally, certificates of appreciation were awarded to three lecturers from Cardiology, Pediatrics and Ophthalmology, a certificate of appreciation to the multidisciplinary team (health professions) of the NICU, and five departments that went to great lengths to continue teaching students even during the war: Internal Medicine A, Pediatrics, Surgery, Ophthalmology and ENT.

Recipients of the teaching excellence awards from Hillel Yaffe Medical Center

The awards and certificates of appreciation were given by the Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Prof. Ami Aronheim and Vice Dean Prof. Amir Karban, together with the Director General of Hillel Yaffe Medical Center, Prof. Mickey Dudkiewicz and Chairperson of the Technion Medical Students Committee, Victoria Hermann.

In his opening remarks, Prof. Aronheim praised the consistent lineup of outstanding performers each year, noting that teaching scores were above average, as well as an increase in the number of publications, which is also noteworthy.

Hillel Yaffe Medical Center Director Prof. Mickey Dudkiewicz joined the remarks, noting that the number of outstanding performers increases every year, and the fact that this was achieved during two years of war, with lecturers absent due to military reserve duty and amid general operational complexity, is impressive and a source of pride. He further emphasized the obligation hospitals have to maintain teaching and research as an integral part of the required clinical activity.