The Graduate Medical Education Committee

The Committe Charge

The purpose of this committee shall be to oversee all programs in graduate medical education sponsored by the Medical School. The committee shall examine adequacy of the clinical environments and structure according to the guidelines for General Requirements of the ACGME. The committee shall perform relevant internal reviews of each training program to assess its compliance with both the institutional requirements and relevant program requirements of the ACGME. The committee shall serve as a forum for discussion of graduate medical education issues to include not only clinical environments but resident quality of life, recruitment, specialty choice and outcome. The membership of the Committee on Graduate Medical Education shall be recommended from among the Faculty members who are program directors of an approved residency or fellowship, other members of the Faculty and members of the house staff chosen by the President and Vice President of the House Staff Association. The Associate Dean for Educational Programs shall be a member with voting privilege. The Graduate Education Committee on Quality Assessment shall be a subcommittee of the GME Committee and shall function to receive and review reports and cases in which the patient care rendered by UTHSC-H Medical School resident physicians is called into question to the extent that the resident physician's residency program should be notified and remedial action taken. This subcommittee is a peer-review committee established pursuant to Texas law and shall function under its own bylaws, which are approved by the Senate. The Associate Dean for Educational Programs shall be a member with voting privilege.

GMEC Members - Name & Department

Chair & DIO

Standing Members

Residents

Kristine Elizabeth Konopka, M.D., Resident, Pathology
Ameet Nagpal, M.D, Resident, PM&R
Marian Von-Maszewski, M.D, Fellow, Anesthesiology Critical Care

Ex Officio (Non-voting members)

Brent King, M.D., President, UT System Medical Foundation
Jose Garcia, M.D., LBJ , General Director, AMS
R. Andrew Harper, M.D., Medical Director/HCPC; Assistant Dean, Educational Programs, UTMS
David Jenkins, Senior Legal Officer, Legal Affairs and Institutional Compliance
Judy Paukert, Ph.D., Director, Graduate Medical Education, The Methodist Hospital

Jacqueline Brooks, UTMS GME Office
John Weinland, UTMDACC Trainee Support Services
Catherine Thompson, Legal Affairs and Institutional Compliance
Cheryl Loudd, Chair, Association of Residency Coordinators

NOTE: Standing members may send a representative in their place to the GMEC meetings but after 3 consecutive absences without representation they will lose membership on the GMEC. Questions about this committee should be addresses to Ms Jacqueline Brooks at 713-500-5152. Meeting Dates may be found here.