About Graduate Medical Education Office

The Graduate Medical Education (GME) Office supports the 140+ residency and fellowship programs sponsored by the Medical School, so that every program offers the best possible training environment and educational opportunities.

The GME team provides resources, how-to manuals, policies and guidelines, and other information to help program teams manage graduate medical education programs for residents, fellows, observers, and visiting trainees.

Goals for Graduate Medical Education

Our goal is to provide the highest quality of graduate and post-graduate medical, professional and educational training to prepare physicians for the practice of specialty and/or subspecialty training, or for the pursuit of academic and research medicine.

The University of Minnesota is committed to the policy that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, marital status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.

Our Core Values

How we conduct our work is as important as what we do. Our core values are the principles that guide us every day. We support and advance our mission by cultivating a culture of respect and collaboration:

• We treat each other with mutual respect, welcome and promote diversity, and approach our interactions with compassion and the assumption of good intent.
• We act with integrity and are honest and transparent.
• We are accountable to one another and accept personal responsibility for our actions while recognizing the impact on others.
• We embrace a Growth Mindset: We love to learn. We are committed to development.  We welcome feedback. We are adaptable and embrace change. We persist in the face of adversity.  We focus on solutions. We see failure as an opportunity to grow

Statement of Commitment

The University of Minnesota Medical School is committed to graduate medical education, which emphasizes education and training of physicians to meet the healthcare needs of our region and advance knowledge and leadership in the biomedical sciences and in academic medicine.

With this commitment, the University of Minnesota Medical School will provide adequate funding for administration, personnel, education, clinical resources, and faculty teaching time to be certain that every program under our institutional sponsorship offers the best possible training environment and educational opportunities.

The GME team

The operations team uses a shared email address: gme@umn.edu.  Email us there regarding any topic!  For private/sensitive matters, continue to use personal email addresses (listed below).