Arrel Toews

HONORS & AWARDS

• 1996 – Johnston Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
• 1997 – Favorite Faculty Award (UNC Senior Class)
• 2003 – William C. Friday, Class of 1986 Teaching Excellence
• 2008 – Faculty of the Year Award (UNC Student Nat’l Med. Assoc)
• 2009 – Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching
• Elected to Academy of Educators for the School of Medicine
• Appointed Teaching Champion for the School of Medicine

TEACHING

I have been heavily involved in teaching both undergraduates and medical students, as well as those somewhere in between. I am a former course director for “Introduction to Biochemistry,” (BIOC 107/107L and BIOC 108/108L), our two-semester series of lecture and lab courses targeted to students preparing for careers in nursing, dental hygiene, or radiologic science, and to any other students desiring an introductory survey of biochemistry with as much human and clinical relevance as possible. Those were 4-credit hour courses, with three lectures and one 2-hour lab session each week.

I was also the course director for the Biochemistry course in the Medical Education Development (M.E.D.) Program. This was an intensive 9-week summer program, sponsored by the UNC Medical and Dental Schools,  designed to enhance the opportunities in the medical and dental professions for disadvantaged students.

I was also involved with the first-year medical school curriculum in the “Molecules to Cells” block of instruction. I was a UNC Medical School Teaching Scholar during the 2005-2006 academic year, and was elected (2007) as an inaugural member of the UNC Medical School’s Academy of Educators. I served on the UNC Faculty Council from 2007 to 2010.