Month: January 2025

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Rest in peace ASN Innovations in Education Award

So I just pushed out the latest episode of Channel Your Enthusiasm. This one was recorded in November of 2022. (Yes, I am a little behind on the editing, but I have a new workflow and its name is Simon Topf. Things are going better.) During the recording Josh mentioned that we had just won the ASN Innovations in Education Award and Melanie pipes in we won the 2022 version of the contest because even then we knew that it was going to be awhile before the episode was published and we all assumed that there would be other, subsequent winners.

Nope

2022 was the last year of the ASN Innovations in Education Award.

The website says that they are skipping 2023 and to check back in 2024

oof

I asked about the contest on ASN Communities and got the following reply:

Hello, Dr. Topf,

Thank you for your post. ASN decided to pause the Innovations in Kidney Content the last couple of years due to declining interest. ASN continues to offer the William and Sandra Bennett Clinical Scholars Program: https://www.asn-online.org/grants/tig/details.aspx?app=BENNETT and the Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development Program Award: https://www.kidneycure.org/grants/faculty-development.aspx 

Sincerely,

Charyl Delaney

The Channelers had a discussion about the award, which you can hear here

The audio is from the podcast recording, most of which ended up being cut from the episode. The images are from our video application for the award. You can see that video with the original audio, here. In the video we discuss how the winners were announced. Edgar took a video which i now on You tube. Take a look:

Awards given by professional societies is one of the ways that an organization can demonstrates its values. And the ASN Innovations in Education Award told the world that nephrology valued education and educators. Unfortunately, we live in a world where promotion and tenure committees undervalue the work that goes into educational initiatives. During my most recent tangle with P&T they expressly said that when outlining what you do for the medical school, to not include teaching, as that is just table stakes and not that important. The ASN education award provided a bit of incentive to pursue big audacious educational projects.

Some of the discussion was about how slipshod the award recognition was in 2022. This was a change from previous years and we couldn’t figure out why. Now it is apparent that the organization had already walked away from Innovation Award.

This is a disappointment. I am sorry to see it go away.