The Research in Medical Education (RIME) Program Planning Committee is responsible for the planning, implementation, and evaluation of the RIME component of the AAMC Medical Education Meeting. The committee members, with the guidance and support of the AAMC Staff, have several responsibilities, including:
- Planning the structure of the RIME components of the AAMC Medical Education Meeting;
- Coordinating the RIME Call for Submissions with the AAMC Medical Education Meeting Planning Committee;
- Issuing the RIME Call for Research Papers, Review Papers, and Research Abstracts;
- Reviewing the submissions for Research Papers, Review Papers, and Research Abstracts;
- Collating the external reviews of research papers, review papers and abstracts to select papers and abstracts for presentation at the AAMC Medical Education Meeting
- Providing constructive feedback to authors who responded to the RIME Call for Submissions;
- Identifying areas of research methods and skills that would benefit the broader community of educators.
- Communicating and aligning efforts to advance educational research with the MESRE committee/GEA steering committee
The major responsibility of RIME Program Planning Committee members is the review and selection of papers and research abstracts submitted for the RIME conference at the AAMC Medical Education Meeting. The review includes compiling detailed constructive feedback for all papers and research abstracts submitted. The committee members begin the review process in the winter and final selection decisions are made at the committee meeting in the spring. The RIME committee meets twice a year, in or around the AAMC Medical Education Meeting and in the spring.
The term of a RIME Program Planning Committee member is three years, with the exception of the committee Chair. Each year the current year’s committee “Chair” is requested to serve an additional year in the role of “Past Chair”. RIME Program Planning Committee members are nominated by their peers and elected through a national process in which all members of the Medical Education Scholarship Research and Evaluation (MESRE) Section are able to vote. Each year the ballot consists of a candidate with a MD/DO degree and a candidate with a PhD/EdD degree. Additionally, the nominating committee may consider specific areas of expertise in the identification of candidates.
2024-2025 RIME Program Planning Committee
Co-Chair (s)
Arianne Teherani, PhD
Director, Program Evaluation and Education Continuous Quality Improvement
School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
arianne.teherani@ucsf.edu
Tasha Wyatt, PhD
Associate Director, Center for Health Professions Education (CHPE)
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
tasha.wyatt@usuhs.edu
Past-Chair(s)
Cha-Chi Fung, PhD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medical Education
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
chachi.fung@med.usc.edu
Javeed Sukhera, MD, PhD, FRCPC
Chair of Psychiatry, Institute of Living
Chief of Psychiatry, Hartford Hospital
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Yale School of Medicine
javeed.sukhera@lhsc.on.ca
Members
Jorie Colbert-Getz, PhD
Assistant Dean of Education Quality Improvement
University of Utah School of Medicine
Jorie.Colbert-Getz@hsc.utah.edu
Michael Ryan, MD
Associate Dean for Assessment, Evaluation, Research and Innovation
University of Virginia
DGQ7XK@uvahealth.org
Pilar Ortega, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
University of Chicago Illinois
portega1@uic.edu
Bonny Dickinson, PhD
Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs
Director of Medical Education Research
Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences
Mercer University School of Medicine
dickinson_bl@mercer.edu
Tai Lockspeiser, MD
Professor, Pediatrics
Jones Family Endowed Professor of Medical Education
University of Colorado, School of Medicine
tai.lockspeiser@cuanschutz.edu
Binbin Zheng, PhD, MEd
Associate Professor, Center for Health Professions Education
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
binbin.zheng@usuhs.edu
Chi Chang, PhD, MS
Associate Professor
Michigan State University
chisq@msu.edu
Adam Sawatsky, MD, MS
Consultant - Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal
Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
Associate Professor of Medicine - Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
sawatsky.Adam@mayo.edu
Gary Beck Dallaghan, PhD
Assistant Dean of Accreditation
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
garylbd@illinois.edu