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Speaker Introduction
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Ruth-Marie E. Fincher,
MD
Medical College of Georgia
School of Medicine
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| Ruth-Marie E. Fincher,
MD is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs and
Professor of Medicine at the Medical College
of Georgia School of Medicine. After earning
her M.D. degree and completing residency
training in Internal Medicine at Emory
University School of Medicine, she practiced
medicine for five years before joining the
faculty of the Medical College of Georgia
(MCG) in 1984. She served as Director
of Student Education for the Department of
Medicine before becoming Associate Dean for
Curriculum for the School of Medicine in
1992 and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in
1994.
Dr. Fincher has published
extensively in the medical education
literature, particularly related to
students' specialty choice, clinical
assessment, and scholarship of
education/teaching. She has been
recognized as an outstanding educator as
evidenced by receipt of the Medical College
of Georgia's "Medical Educator of the
Year Award" for eight sequential years,
the coveted Alpha Omega Alpha/AAMC
Distinguished Teacher Award (1996),
and the MCG Outstanding Faculty Award
(2000). In 2003, she received the Daniel S.
Tosteson Award for Leadership in Medical
Education.
She has served as
president of the Clerkship Directors in
Internal Medicine (CDIM), chair of the
National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME)
Step 2 Medicine Test Material Development
Committee, co-chair of the AAMC’s Research
in Medical Education (RIME) Committee, chair
of the Group on Educational Affairs (GEA),
and chair of the GEA Scholarship Project.
She is a member of the Boards of Directors
of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor
Medical Society and the American College of
Physicians (ACP) Foundation, and a member of
the core committee of the International
Institute for Medical Education and governor
of the Georgia Chapter of the ACP. |
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