Graduate Medical Education Committee

The IRs specify the following composition and meeting frequency of the GMEC.

The GMEC has the responsibility for monitoring and advising on all aspects of residency education. Voting membership on the committee must include:

• Residents nominated by their peers manifest by the leadership of the McGaw Residents and Fellows Forum (MRFF) and Northwestern McGaw Underrepresented Residents and Fellows Forum (NMURFF) housestaff organization
• Residency program directors of the five core residencies (Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Psychiatry and Surgery)
• Program directors of at least four non-core program directors from a variety of other residencies and fellowships (including ACGME accredited and non-standard) serving three-year terms
• Administrators from the largest McGaw base hospitals (Northwestern Memorial Hospital/ Prentice Women’s Hospital, Shirley Ryan Ability Lab, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago)
• The accountable Designated Institutional Official (DIO)

The committee may include other members of the faculty.

Our committee meets 12 times per year.

1. Oversight of:
   • ACGME accreditation status of the Sponsoring Institution and each of its ACGME-accredited programs;
   • Quality of the GME learning and working environment within the Sponsoring Institution, each of its ACGME-accredited programs, and its participating sites;
   • Quality of educational experiences in each ACGME accredited program that lead to measurable achievement of educational outcomes as identified in the ACGME common and specialty/subspecialty-specific program requirements;
   • ACGME-accredited program(s)’ annual evaluation and improvement activities; and
   • All processes related to reductions and closures of individual ACGME-accredited programs, major participating sites, and the Sponsoring Institution.
2. Review and approval of:
   • Institutional GME policies and procedures;
   • Annual recommendations to the Sponsoring Institution’s administration regarding resident/fellow stipends and benefits;
   • Applications for ACGME accreditation of new programs;
   • Requests for permanent changes in resident and fellow complement;
   • Major changes in each of its ACGME-accredited programs’ structure or duration of education;
   • Additions and deletions of each of its ACGME-accredited programs’ participating sites;
   • Appointment of new program directors;
   • Progress reports requested by a Review Committee;
   • Responses to Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) reports;
   • Requests for exceptions to work hour requirements;
   • Voluntary withdrawal of ACGME program accreditation;
   • Requests for appeal of an adverse action by a Review Committee; and
   • Appeal presentations to an ACGME Appeals Panel.
3. The GMEC must demonstrate effective oversight of the Sponsoring Institution’s accreditation through an Annual Institutional Review (AIR):
   • The GMEC must identify institutional performance indicators for the AIR, which include:
     • Results of the most recent institutional self-study visit;
     • Results of ACGME surveys of residents/fellows and core faculty members; and
     • Notification of each of its ACGME-accredited programs’ accreditation statuses and self-study visits.
   • The AIR must include monitoring procedures for action plans resulting from the review.
   • The DIO must submit a written annual executive summary of the AIR to the Governing Body.
4. The GMEC must demonstrate effective oversight of underperforming program(s) through a Special Review process.
   • The Special Review process must include a protocol that:
     • Establishes criteria for identifying underperformance; and
     • Results in a report that describes the quality improvement goals, the corrective actions, and the process for GMEC monitoring of outcomes.

The Graduate Medical Education Committee meetings are held from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

• April 14, 2023
• May 12, 2023
• June 9, 2023
• July 14, 2023
• August 11, 2023
• September 8, 2023
• October 13, 2023
• November 10, 2023
• December 8, 2023

Please Note

• The agenda for the Graduate Medical Education Committee meeting closes 10 days prior to the meeting date.
• All documents pending GMEC consideration are due one week ahead of the meeting for which the review is scheduled.

2023-24 Committee Members

Joshua Goldstein, MD, DIO and Chair
Shubhada Ahya, MD
Cara Angelotta, MD
Senta Berggruen, MD
Oluwateniola (Teni) Brown, MD
Aashish Didwania, MD
Abra Fant, MD, QI and Patient Safety Officer
Susan Gerber, MD
Amy Halverson, MD
Emily Hinchcliff, MD
Priya Jain, MD
Stephanie Pelligra
Dmitry Pyatetsky, MD
Monica Rho, MD
Sean Sachdev, MD
James Schroeder, Jr., MD
Clara Schroedl, MD
James Sliwa, DO, QI and Patient Safety Officer
Deborah Smith Clements, MD
Jennifer Strople, MD
Linda Suleiman, MD, Director of Diversity and Inclusion
Sharon Unti, MD
Santina Wheat, MD,MPH

2022-2023 Program Coordinator Representatives

Brittany Dixon
Nancy Irizarry
Sean Jones

2022-2023 McGaw Housestaff Association

Mitchell Blenden, MD
Kelley Chen, MD
Manish Mehta, MD
James Randall, MD

2022-2023 Northwestern McGaw Underrepresented Resident and Fellow Forum (NMURFF)

Etoro Ekpe, MD
Madonna Enwe, MD
Maryam Ige, MD
Kiki Ogu, MD
Asantewaa Ture, MD
John Walton, MD
Alexander Worix, MD

Ex Oficio Non voting

Mary McBride, MD, Faculty Development Director Feinberg School of Medicine