Distinction in Medical Education (DIME)

The Distinction in Medical Education (DIME) track is designed for residents who are interested in becoming clinician educators and who wish to include medical education as part of their profession career.  The DIME curriculum provides experiences and further educational instruction beyond the current three-year longitudinal resident teaching skills curriculum by focusing on curriculum design and development, educational innovations, and educational scholarship.  Each resident in DIME works with a mentor on a scholarly project.

Some example projects include:

  • Curriculum development for the Transition to Residency course offered to fourth year medical students at the University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.  Workshops developed by DIME residents included workshops on hypoxia, chest pain, and altered mental status
  • The Clinical Unknown Series
  • Introduction to Medicine Workshop for Under-Represented High School Students
  • Core Physical Exam Technique Simulation for Internal medicine Clerkship Students
  • Medicine workshop series

Residents have presented their scholarly projects at local and national meetings.

Both the Master Clinician Mystery Case series and the Distinction in Point-of-Care Ultrasound stem from work done as a part of the Distinction in Medical Education.


2024-2025 DIME Participants


Grace Alexander


Calie Brownlee


Stefano Byer


Amanda Chang


Nick Coffey


Katrina Dovalovsky


Brittnee Haynes


Alp Kahveci


Tyler Maggio

Shivali Patel
Shivali Patel


Megan Napier


Joe Phillips


Pranav Puri


Ashten Sherman


Carlie Sorensen


Katrina Soyangco


Quinn Vatland


Alice Xu

Leadership


Jenny Strouse, MD
Director


Yana Zemkova, MD
Co-Director


Stacy Sueppel
Administrator

Steering Committee

Manish Suneja
Manish Suneja, MD

Lisa Antes photo
Lisa Antes, MD


M. Lee Sanders, MD