Scholarly Articles on RIME

Below are a few articles to explore RIME and how it might assist you in teaching and assessing students.

Articles by Pangaro et alit

  • Pangaro LN. A Shared Professional Framework for Anatomy and Clinical Clerkship. Clinical Anatomy 19:419–428; 2006.

  • Pangaro LN. A New Vocabulary and Other Innovations for Improving Descriptive In-Training Evaluations. Academic Medicine 74:11 (November); 1999.

  • DeWitt D, Carline J, Paauw D & Pangaro LN.Pilot study of a ‘RIME’‐based tool for giving feedback in a multi‐specialty longitudinal clerkship. Medical Education 42: 1205–1209; 2008.

Studies on RIME as an Evaluation/Assessment Tool

  • Ander DS, Wallenstein J, Abramson JL, Click L, Shayne P.  Reporter-Interpreter-Manager-Educator (RIME) descriptive ratings as an evaluation tool in an emergency medicine clerkship. J Emerg Med.2012 Oct;43(4):720-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2011.05.069. Epub2011 Sep 25.

  • Appel J, Friedman E, Fazio S, Kimmel J, Whelan A. Educational assessment guidelines: a Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine commentary, The American Journal of Medicine, Volume 113, Issue 2, 1 August 2002, Pages 172-179, ISSN 0002-9343, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0002-9343(02)01211-1

  • Espey E, Nuthalapaty F, Cox S, Katz N, Ogburn T, Peskin T, Goepfert A, Hammoud M, Casey P, Emmons S, Neutens JJ; Association of Professors of Gynecology and Obstetrics Undergraduate Medical Education Committee. To the point: Medical education review of the RIME method for the evaluation of medical student clinical performance. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2007 Aug;197(2):123-33.

  • Metheny WP, Espey EL, Bienstock J, Cox SM, Erickson SS, Goepfert AR, Hammoud MM, Hartmann DM, Krueger PM, Neutens JJ, Puscheck E. To the point: medical education reviews evaluation in context: assessing learners, teachers, and training programs. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2005 Jan;192(1):34-7.

  • Ogburn T & Epsey E. The R-I-M-E Method for Evaluation of Medical Students on an Obstetrics and Gynecology Clerkship. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 189(3) 666-669; 2003.

Related Resources

RIME Guide