Dr. Georges Bordage, professor of medical education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has been awarded the Abraham Flexner Award for Distinguished Service to Medical Education by the Association of American Medical Colleges. Bordage was honored at the association's annual meeting Nov. 5 in Washington, D.C.
The award cites his leadership in crafting a program regarded internationally as the premier program for training health professions educators.
"The most important thing is the student, the learner at the center of it all," said Bordage, explaining his exceptional success as a medical educator.
Bordage arrived at UIC in 1992 and became director of the university's Masters of Health Profession Education program. Prior to UIC, he founded and directed a similar program at Laval University Faculty of Medicine in Canada.
Bordage's research includes the study of clinical reasoning, in particular, the organization of medical knowledge in memory and its effect on diagnostic reasoning; written and oral assessment of clinical competence (key features concept); and formative assessment of residents.
And, notably, his early research into the area of clinical reasoning had a profound impact on the medical licensing process in Canada, prompting the Canadian medical board to adopt a concept he developed for written and oral assessment of clinical competence. He continues to teach courses on current issues in health profession education, research design, and scientific writing.
Bordage is a member of the American Educational Research Association, Canadian Association for Medical Education, the Association for the Study of Medical Education, the Association for Surgical Education, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. He is the 1994 recipient of the John P. Hubbard Award from the National Board of Medical Examiners and is a member of the board.
After receiving an undergraduate degree in science from College de Bathurst, Bordage earned his medical degree from Laval University. In addition, he has a M.Sc. degree in biometry-medical informatics from Case Western University and a Ph.D. in educational psychology-medical education from Michigan State University. He also has been awarded several honorary degrees from universities around the world.
Also honored at the annual meeting were Dr. Everett C. Koop, former U.S. Surgeon General, and Dr. Stuart Orkin of Harvard Medical School.
UIC ranks among the nation's top 50 universities in federal research funding and is Chicago's largest university with 25,000 students, 12,000 faculty and staff, 15 colleges and the state's major public medical center. A hallmark of the campus is the Great Cities Commitment, through which UIC faculty, students and staff engage with community, corporate, foundation and government partners in hundreds of programs to improve the quality of life in metropolitan areas around the world.
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