Preceptorship Awards
The Max Fox Preceptorship Award and the Sigurd Sivertson Medical Student Education Award recognize Wisconsin physicians for their critical role in educating medical students. Recipients are chosen by faculty selection committees.
The Max Fox Preceptorship Award
In 1969, Dr. Herman H. Shapiro, a preceptee of Dr. Fox, founded this preceptorship award in honor of his mentor. During his 46 years of practicing medicine, Dr. Max J. Fox greatly influenced the careers of some 4,000 physicians. It was his love of teaching that made Dr. Fox such an effective preceptor for University of Wisconsin medical students for over 25 years.
Each year the Max Fox Award honors one of the unheralded Wisconsin physicians whose dedicated service as a medical student preceptor has played such an important part in developing this outstanding University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health.
2024 Max Fox Award
Robert Macnack, MD, is a family medicine physician at the SSM Health Monroe Clinic in New Glarus. He serves as the main preceptor at the clinic and is with medical students four days a week. Dr. Macnack has served as a preceptor for 25 students since 2019.
All Max Fox Preceptorship Award Recipients
Sigurd Sivertson Medical Student Education Award
This award is in recognition of Dr. Sivertson’s years of commitment to community-based medical student education. The importance of access to quality health care in the communities of Wisconsin and the contribution of community physicians to medical education are core elements of the programs of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. This award recognizes individuals that have contributed to the education of medical students throughout their careers.
2025 Sigurd Sivertson Award
Deanna Benish, MD, is a family physician affiliated with the Reedsburg Area Medical Center. She has taught over 35 students over the past ten years of the Ambulatory Acting Internship and 4th Year Preceptorship. She tailors clinical experiences to the educational needs and career goals of her students by providing a home base in her practice and arranging for her colleagues of various specialties to teach students during parts of the 4-week long Ambulatory Acting Internships.