The "Resident Teacher of the Year Award" and the "Resident Excellence in Teaching Awards" were established to pay tribute to those faculty members that excel in resident education. The residents vote on these awards based on teaching inside and outside of the operating room. The winners of these honors do a wonderful job of combining multiple realms of education. These include hands-on technical training, intraoperative teaching related to the cases they oversee on a daily basis, and organized didactic lectures. The awards were presented at the resident graduation dinner on June 21, 2009.