YEAR AWARDEE
2025 Anna Nathalie Longakit
2024 Glafira Ermakova
2023 Amy Inkster
2022 Vanessa Porter
2021 Giulia Del Gobbo
2020 Tiffany Carlaw
2019 Giulia Del Gobbo
2018 Jack Hickmott
2017 Samantha Wilson
2016 Emma Hitchcock
2015 Peter Thompson
2014 Samantha Wilson
2013 Peter Thompson
2012 George Chung
2011 Courtney Hanna
2010 Farah Zahir
The Medical Genetics Teaching Assistant Award was first instituted in 2010 by a group of MEDG 530 students who felt that their hard-working TA (Farah Zahir) deserved to be recognized in a special way. Since then, the term-end students’ evaluation form includes a section for them to recommend (or not) their TA for this distinctive award. Students write comments and rank their TA (on a scale of 1-5) on the following criteria:
- The TA promoted learning in the course
- The TA communicated effectively
- The TA was well-prepared for the course
- The TA stimulated interest in the course
- The TA was accessible to students
- The tutorial sessions were informative
- The Canvas postings were helpful
Course coordinators are also asked to comment on and rank the TA’s performance of their duties. The Teaching Assistant Award Review Committee is composed of several members of the Research Day Committee. They receive copies of the student and course coordinator evaluations where the identifiers (the TA’s name and course name) have been removed, ensuring an unbiased process of selection.
The Medical Genetics TA Award is exclusively for Medical Genetics students; non-MEDG students are not eligible for this competition.