There are a lot of ways for residents to be involved in OHSU, including several committees with house officer participation. In order to help you identify who to reach out to to advocate for change, or select a committee to apply for during your residency, the IM Chiefs have collected a list of them here. Please email us with questions or suggestions.

updated February 2025

Ambulatory Education Board:

This group of residents meets with Education Board faculty each Wed at 8:00am regarding ambulatory didactic planning and to share feedback on the different sessions held during the +1 week.

Contacts: Laura Byerly or Emily Janetos

justice, Equity, and belonging (jeb) collaborative:

The Department of Medicine JEB Collaborative is a dynamic group of faculty, staff, and trainees in the DoM who come together to engage in this work. They work collaboratively to set the direction and priorities of the collaborative, and their goals are to integrate this work within existing structures and systems of the department. Members are organized into workgroups to address the group’s priorities. Please contact us to join the listserv or join a workgroup!

Contacts: Reem Hasan or Erynn Beeson

Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC)

The Graduate Medical Education Committee (GMEC) consists of GME leadership, program leadership, and resident/fellow representatives from ACGME accredited training programs at OHSU who meet monthly to make decisions on issues affecting GME and its policies. Examples of items discussed at GMEC meetings include editing policies surrounding evaluations/work hours/recruitment, reviewing program accreditation, and approval of program director appointments. The committee includes 12 residents/fellows (6 voting and 6 alternate members) to ensure house officer representation.

OHSU GME RESIDENT FELLOW FORUM (OARFF)

OARFF is a working group created to allow residents and fellows from OHSU’s ACGME accredited programs to collaborate and facilitate improvements in resident/fellow experiences and processes across the institution. We meet to brainstorm new and advance ongoing projects. Each project will have 1-2 champions leading the initiative. We hope you will consider joining our group to make your resident and fellow voices heard. Reach out if you're interested in representing your department as a formal member of OARFF or feel free to drop in to one of our monthly meetings to learn more! 

For a description of the OARFF including purpose, format, scope and position roles, please click here.

Contact (IM): Henry Slone

Housestaff Quality & Safety CounCIL (HQSC)

The OHSU HQSC is a multi-specialty group of house officers that meets monthly to discuss hospital-wide quality and safety initiatives, review house officer-submitted safety event reports, and provide peer coaching for individual quality and safety initiatives.

Contacts: Rachel Waitzman & Erynn Beeson

Internal Medicine Residency Committee (imrc):

The Internal Medicine Resident Council (IMRC) is comprised of elected representatives from each class of the OHSU IM residency program and serves as a formal venue for presenting issues of concern raised by residents and program leadership. This year, the committee will also be focusing on wellness initiatives as well as narrative medicine to provide a holistic training experience for all residents.

Contacts: Rannah Dabiri, Hannah Tandon, or Shira Peress

Medicine Teaching Service (MTS) ADVISORY BOARD:

This committee comprised of residents and attendings works to continually improve the OHSU wards rotation by soliciting feedback and implementing clear changes.

Contact: Bailey Pope

Resident Curriculum Committee (RCC):

This group focuses on optimizing resident education by overseeing all aspects of the noon conference curriculum, improving core rotations, and helping deliver timely and relevant feedback to learners.

Contacts: Bailey Pope, Hannah Zane, or Ryan Friedman

Scholarship Committee:

This group works closely with Dr. Hunter to help ensure residents have access to a variety of scholarship and research opportunities across various internal medicine disciplines.

Contact: Alan Hunter or Ryan Friedman

Department of medicine GRAND ROUNDS committee

This group works to review and schedule weekly presentations of relevant, quality content for faculty at OHSU and in the community, as well as for OHSU trainees.

Contact: Rob Rope, Rebecca Harrison, or Erynn Beeson