Sigurd Silvertson Medical Education Award

The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the University of Wisconsin Medical Alumni Association has created the Sigurd Sivertson Medical Education Award to recognize the contributions of Sigurd E. Sivertson, MD, to the education of medical students at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.

It further recognizes the contributions made by hundreds of preceptors in communities throughout Wisconsin who provide quality health care to Wisconsin citizens while providing educational opportunities for medical students through community-based service.

2009 Sigurd Silvertson Medical Education Award

Sharon L. Haase, MD '85

Dr. Haase has been widely recognized for her commitment to teaching and mentoring medical students at Beaver Dam Hospital in rural Dodge County. In 2003, the UW School of Medicine and Public Health awarded her its Max Fox Preceptor Award. When she first became affiliated with the hospital in 1988, following her internal medicine residency at University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Haase started mentoring fourth year University of Wisconsin-Madison students in the Preceptor Program.

By 1989, she became the sole preceptor and has continued to take on medical students for apprentice-type teaching for their six-week preceptor rotations. Five of her former students have come back to practice primary care in Beaver Dam.

In 2000-2001, Dr. Haase represented all of the preceptorship sites as spokesperson and member of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health's Curriculum Architecture Subcommittee to redesign the third- and fourth-year curriculum. Dr. Haase has also mentored American College of Physicians (ACP) summer externs, and on occasion, has had other third- or fourth-year medical students from other medical schools.