Awards

CASEM has 3 annual awards:

The Community Sport Medicine Physician of the Year Award

Educator/Mentor Award

The Medal of Service Award

The awards were created to recognize CASEM physicians who have contributed to the sports medicine world in a significant way, whether is be through community work or through teaching and mentoring the next generation of sport medicine physicians.

The Community Sport Medicine Physician of the Year Award

The Community Sport Medicine Physician of the Year Award was developed by CASEM in 2006 to recognize the members with outstanding sport medicine volunteer commitment in the community :

Educator/Mentor Award

This annual award recognizes a physician who has demonstrated longstanding and outstanding contributions in teaching, mentoring and leadership in the field of Sport and Exercise Medicine in Canada. Sport and Exercise Medicine Physicians nominated for this award will be experienced in teaching sport medicine learners in a variety of settings. The nominee may have been a valued mentor for Sport and Exercise Medicine students, residents, fellows or other SEM learners. They may have shown leadership in teaching, clinical practice, sports coverage, volunteerism and advocacy.

The Medal of Service Award

This annual award recognizes individuals who have made an exceptional and outstanding contribution to the advancement of sport and exercise medicine in Canada. The award is granted in recognition of: -Service to their profession in the field of event planning, event and/or team coverage -Service to Canadians by helping to raise the standards of sport and exercise medicine in Canada -Personal contribution to the advancement of the art and science of sport and exercise medicine.