AMEI Golden Apple Awards | SingHealth Duke-NUS

AN ACCOLADE FOR EDUCATORS – The AMEI Golden Apple Awards recognise faculty and staff with an active teaching role in the SingHealth Duke-NUS Academic Medical Centre. The awards honour the best in healthcare education who have transformed teaching by engaging and inspiring learners.

NOMINATIONS FOR THE 2025 AWARDS ARE NOW CLOSED.

Nominations must be received via email by 11 April 2025, Friday, 5pm. Late submissions will not be accepted.

Why the Award?
At SingHealth and Duke-NUS, educators play an important role for continuous learning and improvement in the pursuit of Academic Medicine. AMEI believes that excellence in teaching by incorporating innovation will enhance engagement and imbue the spirit of inquiry in learners, thereby contributing to better healthcare education. Hence, the series of award categories aims to recognise and encourage educators for their passion and dedication to demonstrate excellence in teaching.

Award Categories
The four award categories will recognise educators across the various healthcare professions, namely –
Medical ▪ Nursing ▪ Allied Health & Pharmacy ▪ Administration & Others

1) Outstanding Educator Award (Aged 40 and above)
The award recognises outstanding teaching potentials among educators (Aged 40 and above) in SingHealth and Duke-NUS across the various healthcare professions. The educator demonstrates dedication and commitment to excellence in educating the next generation of healthcare professionals.

2) Outstanding Young Educator Award (Aged 39 and below)
The award recognises outstanding teaching potentials among young educators (Aged 39 and below) in SingHealth and Duke-NUS across the various healthcare professions. The educator demonstrates dedication and commitment to excellence in educating the next generation of healthcare professionals.

3) AMEI Generativity Award for Educators
This award recognises educators in SingHealth and Duke-NUS across the various healthcare professions who exemplify the spirit of Generativity by actively giving back to the education landscape through nurturing and mentoring the younger generation of healthcare professionals. The educators' passion in teaching has propelled them to engage and inspire their learners in the discovery of knowledge.

4) Programme Excellence Award
The award uniquely recognises distinctive educational programmes in SingHealth and Duke-NUS Medical School across the various healthcare professions for applying best practices in education philosophies and following a scholarly approach. For the purpose of the award, programme excellence refers to the creation or improvement of a curriculum or pedagogy leading to high quality teaching and learning. Examples of programme excellence may include any evidence demonstrating the use of best practices to promote enhanced engagement, achievement and learning in healthcare education. These may focus on designing and applying needs assessments, curriculum and assessment blueprints, and programme monitoring and evaluation.

Subcategories

Education Excellence
Interprofessional Education (IPE)
Technology Enhanced Learning and Innovation (TELI)
Operational Excellence
Fostering Wellbeing

Eligibility

The AMEI Golden Apple Awards 2025 is open to SingHealth and Duke-NUS faculty members or staff with an active educating role in SingHealth, its group of hospitals and institutions and/or Duke-NUS.

Award nominations can be made for the following healthcare professions: medical, nursing, allied health & pharmacy and administration & others. Nominations should be submitted according to the respective professions accordingly. For example, to nominate a doctor for the Outstanding Young Educator Award, one should submit the nomination under the award’s “Medical” sub-category.

Individuals may nominate themselves (not applicable for AMEI Generativity Award for Educators category) , their educators or mentors, or other educators.

Past winners are not eligible to resubmit their proposals / submissions in any award category for three consecutive years after the year they receive the award.

Click here to download the awards criteria and nomination procedures.

Submission

To submit a nomination, download the nomination forms via the links below.

Please email your nominations to:

AMEI Golden Apple Awards 2025 Committee
amei-gaa@duke-nus.edu.sg

For enquiries, please email amei-gaa@duke-nus.edu.sg or call +65 6601 3340.