Sponsor: Dean’s Office
Presentation includes: Framed Medallion
This award recognizes a medical student who shows exemplary interest in and dedication to patient care.
Nomination and Selection Process:
Submit the name of a medical student who embodies the above criteria, and a one- to two-paragraph summary supporting your nomination. Graduating medical students nominate and select the recipient of this award.
History:
The original gold-headed cane had been handed down from physician to physician as early as the 17th century; it was deposited in the early 19th century in the Royal College of Physicians. The cane represents the “appeal to be worthy to serve the suffering, so beautifully that the cane is rescued from obscurity to walk again, a symbol, the outward and visible sign of the attributes of mind and heart of the true physician.”
From the Foreword by William J. Kerr, M.D., to The Gold-Headed Cane by William MacMichael, M.D.
A replica of the early gold-headed cane was designed and donated by the late Dr. Clifford C. Snyder, professor emeritus and associate dean, and the cane is displayed at the Health Sciences Library. The Gold-Headed Cane Award, a long-time tradition at many medical schools, is presented to the senior medical student whom has shown exemplary interest in patient care.
Past Recipients:
2022 | Sarah Kinsey |
2021 | Samuel West Wilkinson |
2020 | Carson J. Mills, M.S. |
2019 | Jorgen Peter Madsen |
2018 | Peter Sundwall |
2017 | Wesley Blaine Godfrey |
2016 | Gregory Douglas Phillips, Jr. |
2015 | Adam Eli Bracken |
2014 | Melissa Velez See |
2013 | Laura Elizabeth Fink |
2012 | Jeffrey Michael Norris |
2011 | Peter Romney Jackson |
2010 | Andrea Clark Esplin |
2009 | Mark Corry |
2009 | Lindsay Wilson |
2008 | Eric Glissmeyer |
2008 | Michael Rich |
2007 | David Gordon Liddle |
2006 | Marcus Buchanan |
2005 | Richard Gurgel |
2005 | Jose Vega |
2004 | Marion Bishop |
2004 | Miguel Knochel |
2003 | Roy Neal Davis |
2003 | Jeffrey Erickson |
2002 | Jason Wesley Cash |
2002 | Lyle Kinikini |
2001 | Marion Lois Folkemer |
2001 | Katherine Mary Gesteland |
2000 | Leslie Rae Pelinka |
1999 | Trek Lyons |
1998 | Jennifer Nicole Geary |
1997 | Jennifer White Boyden |
1996 | Judy R. Merrill |
1995 | Catherine Alice Olsen |
1994 | Peter Val Sundwall, Jr. |
1993 | Peter Blaine Hathaway |
1992 | Kandice Leigh Knigge |