UI Health Care will begin a national search for its next associate dean and associate hospital director for graduate medical education (GME). This role also serves as the designated institutional officer (DIO). 

This leadership position oversees the Office of GME and works to help create and manage the learning environments for 650 resident physicians and 230 fellow physicians while also ensuring accreditation requirements are met. 

Mark Wilson, MD, MPH, currently in this role, will start a succession plan that transitions his institutional roles to support emerging GME leaders over the next year. Wilson, who is also a clinical professor in the Department of Internal Medicine, plans to remain on faculty.

“Dr. Wilson has been teaching and inspiring generations of physicians as he has led our organization’s GME efforts for the last 20 years,” says Denise Jamieson, MD, MPH, UI vice president for medical affairs and the Tyrone D. Artz Dean of the Carver College of Medicine. “He has devoted much of his career to mentorship and to shaping and improving the training experience for our resident and fellow physicians. The impact he’s made will continue to live on through the thousands of physicians who got their start at UI Health Care. Dr. Wilson has set a high standard for excellence in medical education, and I appreciate his dedication and service to our organization.” 

Wilson is a general internal medicine physician who started leading the organization’s GME efforts in 2004. He also serves as associate director of the Department of Internal Medicine residency training program. 

Over his 20-year career at Iowa, Wilson: 

  • Created novel, interactive professional development programming for incoming resident and fellow physicians and educational leadership development for their program directors and chief residents
  • Guided expansions of the breadth and number of our GME programs, adding over 250 new positions
  • Represented the UI through service to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) as chair of their Group on Resident Affairs and the drafting panel for the Core Entrustable Professional Activities for Entering Residency
  • Received the national Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Award in 2022
  • Contributes to the Planning Advisory Board of the Royal College of Physicians’ International Conference on Resident Education

“Over the course of my career, I’ve embraced core values that guide my work, including mutual respectfulness, inclusivity, fairness, and I believe clinical education is an intensely relational endeavor,” says Wilson. “I’ve aspired to create learning environments in which resident and fellow physicians can fall in love with the privileges, challenges, and sustaining joy to care for another human being.”

Before coming to Iowa, Wilson completed an academic generalist fellowship program at Johns Hopkins University and served as the internal medicine program director at Wake Forest for 12 years. He was elected to the National Council of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine. He has also been involved with the international Evidence-Based Medicine Working Group over the past three decades, making contributions to the Users’ Guides to the Medical Literature. 

Mark Wilson, MD, MPH