Congratulations to Dr. Iain Charnley on receiving the Grand Rapids Family Medicine Preceptor of the Year award. Dr. Charnley was nominated by Michael Lee, MD, who said this of Dr. Charnley.
“I would like to nominate Dr. Iain Charnley of Mercy Health for his excellence in treating the community and educating medical students on their family medicine clerkship.
Among many of his excellent qualities, his flexibility to students’ comfort in interviewing and examining patients was exemplary. Watching him in his element work with patients demonstrated his generosity and love for his patients coming from all walks of life. I especially enjoyed seeing him interact with his Nepalese patients with whom he had established a foothold of cultural credibility using a few Nepalese phrases. ”