Dr. Paul A. Hemmer received his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 1988 and his Master in Public Health from the Uniformed Services University in 2002. He served on active duty with the United States Air Force from 1991 to 2012, retiring with the rank of Colonel and received the Defense Superior Service Medal.  He has served as the Uniformed Services University internal medicine clerkship director, President of the USU Faculty Senate, and was the first active duty officer to receive the Carol Johns Medal, the highest award USUHS faculty can bestow on a fellow faculty member.  In 2018, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association.  He was awarded Mastership in the American College of Physicians in 2019.  He received one of the 2020 Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Awards from the Association of American Medical Colleges.  He is Professor of Medicine and the Vice-Chair for Educational Programs, Department of Medicine, USUHS since 2008. He has been involved with US national leadership in undergraduate medical education, including serving as President of the Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (CDIM)—the national organization representing those who teach internal medicine to medical students—and as a member of Group on Educational Affairs of the Association of American Medical Colleges, service on the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Steering Committee and he chaired the RIME nominating committee.  He is the Chair of the Executive Curriculum Committee for the USU School of Medicine.  Each year, he co-leads a week-long 40 hour CME course for residency program directors on the Assessment of Clinical Competence. He is a member of the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine. He has more than 100 peer reviewed publications, book chapters, and invited articles. His interests include improving the descriptive evaluation of trainee performance, professionalism, and academic leader professional development.

REPRESENTATIVE PUBLICATIONS, PROJECTS, AND/OR DEPLOYMENTS

Professor and Vice-Chair, Educational Programs, Department of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Director, Third Year Internal Medicine Clerkship, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (2003-2008)

Chair, Executive Curriculum Committee, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, F. Edward Hebert School of Medicine (2015-)

President, USUHS Faculty Senate (2004-2005)

President, Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine (2006)

Chair, Nominating Committee and member Steering Committee, Research in Medical Education Section of the AAMC Group on Educational Affairs (2008-2012)

Carol Johns Medal, USUHS (2010)

Defense Superior Service Medal (2012)

Laureate Award, Air Force Chapter of the American College of Physicians. 2018

Lifetime Achievement Award, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Alumni Association. 2018

Mastership, American College of Physicians.  2019

The Alpha Omega Alpha (AΩA) Robert J. Glaser Distinguished Teacher Award.  2020

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Hemmer PA, Dadekian GA, Terndrup C, Pangaro LN, Weisbrod AB, Corriere MD, Rodriguez R, Short P, Kelly WF. Regular Formal Evaluation Sessions are Effective as Frame of Reference Training for Faculty Evaluators of Clerkship Medical Students.  J Gen Intern Med. 2015 Sep;30(9):1313-8.
2. Meyer E, Hemmer PA, Kelly WF, Pangaro LN. The RIME Model provides a context for Entrustable Professional Activities across Undergraduate Medical Education.  Acad Med.  Last Page.  2018:93(6):954. 
3. Sklar D, Hemmer PA, Durning SJ. Medical Education and Health Care Delivery: A Call to Align Goals and Purpose.  Acad Med. 2018 Mar;93(3):384-390.
4. Torre D, Schreiber-Gregory D, Boulet JR, Cervero RM, Hemmer P, Pangaro LN, Durning SJ. Specialty Choices, Practice Characteristics, and Long-term Outcomes of Two Cohorts of USUHS Medical School Graduates Compared with National Data. Mil Med. 2019 Jan 1;184(1-2):e65-e70.
5. Torre DM, Hernandez CA, Castiglioni A, Durning SJ, Daley BJ, Hemmer PA, LaRochelle J. The Clinical Reasoning Mapping Exercise (CResME): a new tool for exploring clinical reasoning.  Perspectives Med Ed.  Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40037-018-0493-y
6. Torre DM, Dong T, Schreiber-Gregory D, Durning SJ, Pangaro L, Pock A, Hemmer PA. Exploring Predictors of USMLE Step 1 scores after moving the examination to follow the core clerkship year. Teach Learn Med. 2020;32(3):330-336.
7. Yoon MH, Kurzweil DM, Durning SJ, Schreiber-Gregory DN, Hemmer PA, Gilliland WR, Dong T. It’s a Matter of Trust: Exploring The Basis of Program Directors' Decisions About Trusting Residents to Care for a Loved One.  Adv Health Sci Ed.  Adv Health Sci Educ Theory Pract. 2020 Aug;25(3):691-709.
8. Konopasky A, Artino AR, Battista A, Ohmer M, Hemmer PA, Torre D, Ramani D, van Merrienboer J, Teunissen P, McBee E, Ratcliffe T, Durning SJ. Understanding Context Specificity: The Effect of Contextual Factors on Clinical Reasoning.    Diagnosis (Berl). 2020 Aug 27;7(3):257-264.
9. Torre DM, Hemmer PA, Durning SJ, Dong T, Swygert K, Schreiber-Gregory D, Kelly WF, Pangaro LN. Gathering validity evidence on an internal medicine clerkship MultiStep exam to assess medical student analytic ability. Teach Learn Med. 2021 Jan-Mar;33(1):28-35.
10. Beck Dallaghan GL, Alexandraki I, Christner J, Keeley M, Khandelwal S, Steiner B, Hemmer PA. Medical School to Residency: How Can We Trust the Process?    13(4): e14485. DOI 10.7759/cureus.14485
11. Maranich AM, Hemmer PA, Uijtdehaage S, Battista A. ACGME Milestones in the Real World: A Qualitative Study Exploring Response Process Evidence.  J Grad Med Educ.  2022;14 (2): 201–209.
12. Landoll RR, Bennion LD, Maranich AM, Hemmer PA, Torre D, Schreiber-Gregory DN, Durning SJ, Dong T. Extending Growth Curves: A trajectory monitoring approach to identification and interventions in struggling medical student learners. Adv in Health Sci Educ.  PMID: 35467305 DOI: 1007/s10459-022-10109-7
13. Wiseman M, Hartzell J, Kelly WF, Hemmer PA, Stein M. Reflective Essays During Clerkship Following a Pre-clerkship Leadership Curriculum. J Med Educ Curric Dev. 2022 May 12;9:23821205221091523
14. Petersen K, Dong T, Hemmer PA, Kelly WF. Online Virtual Patient Cases vs. Weekly Classroom Lectures in an Internal Medicine Clerkship: Effects on Military Learner Outcomes. Mil Med. 2023 May 16;188(5-6):914-920.
15. Melton JL, Hemmer PA, Pock A, Moores LK, Pangaro LN, Durning SJ, Witkop CT, Zapota R, Schreiber-Gregory DN, Dong T. “Primum Non Nocere” – First, Do No Harm – a retrospective review of the impact of curricular reform on USUHS graduates’ performance during their PGY-1 year. Mil Med. 2023;188(S2):63-68.
16. Zetkulic M, Choe JH, Moriarty JP, Amin A, Angus S, Dalal B, Fazio S, Hemmer P, Laird-Fick HS, Ledford C, Muchmore E, Nixon LJ, Olson A. Through the Looking Glass  - Competency Based Education and Training seen through the lens of the UME/GME Transition. Acad Med. 2024 Jan 1;99(1):83-90.
17. Pincavage AT, Gandhi a, Falk E, DiMarino L, Carbajal DR, Ayyala U, Boppana C, Chandrasekar J, Dentino AN, Ferris AH, Forster RM, Hemmer PA, Masucci N, Singh T, Surkis WD, Valerio WK, Choe JH. An Individualized learning plan pilot to improve the transition to residency. J Grad Med Educ. 2023;15(5):597-601.
18. Andrews MA, Okuliar CA, Whelton SA, Windels AO, Kruse SR, Nachnani MG, Topol DA, McBee EC, Stein MT, Singaraju RC, Gao SW, Oliver DS, Mangal JP, LaRochelle JS, Kelly WF, DeZee KJ, Chen HC, Artino AR Jr, Hemmer PA, Dong T, Cleary TJ, Durning SJ. Using Self-Regulated Learning Microanalysis to Examine Regulatory Processes in Clerkship Students Engaged in Practice Questions. Perspect Med Educ. 2023 Oct 13;12(1):385-398.
19. DiMarino LM, Boppana RC, Pincavage AT, Hemmer P, Ferris A, Chandrasekar J, Choe J, Dentino A, Forster R, Masucci N, Carbajal DR, Surkis W, Ward K, O V, Ayyala US. AAIM Recommendations for Undergraduate Medical Education to Graduate Medical Education Transition Curricula in Internal Medicine. Am J Med. 2023 May;136(5):489-495.
20. Burke Harry B, Hoang A, Lopreiato Joseph O, King Heidi, Hemmer Paul, Montgomery Michael, Gagarin Viktoria. Assessing the ability of a large language model to score free text medical student clinical notes: A quantitative study.  JMIR Med Educ. 2024 Jul 25;10:e56342. doi: 10.2196/56342.
21. Olapeju B, Dong T, Soh M, Mushtaq O, Chang H, Riegleman D, Hemmer PA, Schwab SD, Shanahan P, Johnson K, Durning SJ. Socioecological Drivers and Solutions of Burnout -a Mixed Methods Study of Military Health Providers. 2024 Nov 18:12:1410825. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2024.141082
22. Torre D, Hemmer PA, Durning SJ, Pangaro LN. Theoretical considerations of the Reporter-Interpreter-Manager-Educator Assessment Framework. J Gen Intern Med. 2025 Aug;40(11):2697-2702. doi: 10.1007/s11606-025-09580-w. Epub 2025 May 13. PMID: 40360870; PMCID: PMC12405122.