AAMC Awards – Leonard White, PhD from AAMC on Vimeo.
National Distinguished Teaching Award
Professor White has received numerous teaching awards by Duke University. See for example: Prof. White wins Duke University teaching award again.
This time he receives a national teaching award. The national Distinguished Teaching Award by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC), the 2021 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award. With this award (only received by 4 individuals each year) the AAMC draws the attention to outstanding contributions to medical education made by gifted teachers (2021 Alpha Omega Alpha Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award See their press release
The learning community of our MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) ‘Medical Neuroscience’ really benefits from Prof. White’s educational skills and the effort he takes to facilitate learning neuroscience for students outside the academia. The AAMC recognizes this and on their press release we read:
..” White created and teaches “Medical Neuroscience,” a medical school-caliber online course that has been experienced by over 500,000 learners from more than 190 countries since it began in 2013. The course was named one of the “Top 50 Free Online Courses of All Time” by Class Central….
Brilliant teacher
Prof. White’s is a recognized expert in the structure of the human brain, the organization of the visual parts of the brain, and the influence of experience on brain development in early life. He is a co-author and co-editor of a major textbook of neuroscience ( Neuroscience 6th e. Purves et al.) and a digital atlas of the human central nervous system (Sylvius 4 online ).
Professor White uses the modular videos from ‘Medical Neuroscience’ in the team-based blended learning courses he teaches at Duke University. In this approach he has acted as a trendsetter using these strategies long before other teachers adapted them. Prof. White uses his teaching skills to encourage learners to learn actively with real-time problem solving and collaboration.
Also for on-campus learners prof. White extents his hospitality outside the class-room. He organizes weekly ‘neur-runs’ where participants discuss neuroscience while running in the Duke forest (both the neuroscience and the running during these ‘neur-runs’ are not for the faint hearted. It is good science at speed, as I found out when I joined one – Ellen Vos-Wisse). The White family also invites the class to their home at an end-of-course celebration each semester.
Awards
The prestigious Golden Apple award by Duke University School of Medicine is a student-selected award that Prof. White received five times in the past ten years — the maximum number of times the award can be received.
He also received the school’s Excellence in Teaching Award from Doctor of Physical Therapy students, and the Master Clinician/Teacher Award.
In 2019, White earned the highest teaching honor conferred by Duke University, the Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching Award (ADUTA), this you can read in the article Prof. Len White receives two awards from Duke University
Congratulations
Digital learners of the course Medical Neuroscience really appreciate prof. White’s teaching skills. Therefore here we like to express our congratulations to Dr. White on the achievement of winning this national teaching award.
