External Peer Review of Teaching

Applicant Toolbox

Guidelines, instructions, and templates for preparing your promotion packet

Request Review

Instructions on how to request a review of a candidate’s promotion packet

Reviewer Toolbox

 Guidelines, worksheets, and templates for reviewing a promotion packet (revised from the AAMC Toolbox for Evaluating Educators)


GOAL: The goal of this initiative is to address two major obstacles to recognizing and rewarding teaching in our colleges:

  1. The lack of defined and ready-to-use tools to assess teaching, teaching-related professional activities, and the scholarship of teaching.
  2. The lack of a respected and rigorous external review process.

The RTA’s Educator’s Promotion Packet guidelines and format are intended (a) to provide an evidence-based dossier template for faculty with significant teaching and/or educational leadership responsibilities, so that (b) promotion packets might be more fairly and rigorously reviewed – including, ideally, by qualified external reviewers. The format represents an evidence-based approach and has been modified from the AAMC Toolbox for Medical Educators.

There are three stages to the process:

2. The applicant’s dean, department chair, or P&T committee chair (whomever normally solicits external review letters – i.e., the “submitting authority”) submits a request for review, then submits the applicant’s promotion packet once the request is acknowledged.

The background, rationale, structure, and evidence-base of the external peer review of the teaching process are explained in more detail in this peer-reviewed journal article.


External Peer Review of Teaching Fellows

86 & 233 & EPRT Local Representative: Kevin Keel DVM, PhD, DACVP University of California-Davis [UCD]
170 & 246 & EPRT Local Representative: Joie Watson DVM, PhD, DACVIM (LAIM) University of California-Davis [UCD]
166 & 245 & EPRT Local Representative: Mara Varvil Washington State University [WSU]
161 & 244 & EPRT Local Representative: Susan Tornquist DVM, PhD, Dip. ACVP Oregon State University [OSU]
156 & 243 & EPRT Local Representative: Alexis Sweat DVM Utah State University [USU]
154 & 242 & EPRT Local Representative: Leslie Stone-Roy Ph.D. Colorado State University [CSU]
135 & 241 & EPRT Local Representative: Pooja Potdar MS Utah State University [USU]
117 & 240 & EPRT Local Representative: John Michael PhD Colorado State University [CSU]
114 & 239 & EPRT Local Representative: Carolina Mehaffy PhD Colorado State University [CSU]
108 & 238 & EPRT Local Representative: Susan Matthew PhD, BVSc ,BSc, GradCertEdStud Washington State University [WSU]
107 & 237 & EPRT Local Representative: Cherein Massih DVM Western University [WU]
103 & 236 & EPRT Local Representative: Thomas Marino Ed.D., M.S. Western University [WU]
102 & 235 & EPRT Local Representative: Christianne Magee DVM, MS, PhD, DACT Colorado State University [CSU]
95 & 234 & EPRT Local Representative: Steve Lampa PhD Washington State University [WSU]
1 & 219 & EPRT Local Representative: Jeffrey Abbott DVM, PhD, DACVP Washington State University [WSU]
83 & 232 & EPRT Local Representative: Mathew Johnston VMD, DABVP Colorado State University [CSU]
81 & 231 & EPRT Local Representative: Dan Johnson M.A. University of Arizona [UA]
75 & 230 & EPRT Local Representative: Sabrina Hoehne Dr med vet PhD University of California-Davis [UCD]
73 & 229 & EPRT Local Representative: Dean Hendrickson DVM, MS, DACVS Colorado State University [CSU]
69 & 228 & EPRT Local Representative: Rachel Halsey DVM, GCertEdRes Washington State University [WSU]
62 & 227 & EPRT Local Representative: Sarah Guess DVM, MS, DACVIM (SAIM) Washington State University [WSU]
46 & 226 & EPRT Local Representative: Maria Fahie DVM, MS, DACVS Western University [WU]
43 & 225 & EPRT Local Representative: Sarah Eaton DVM DACT CVA DABVP (Equine) MBA University of Arizona [UA]
32 & 224 & EPRT Local Representative: Munashe Chigerwe BVSc, MPH, PhD, DACVIM University of California-Davis [UCD]
23 & 223 & EPRT Local Representative: Jessica Bunch DVM, DACVSMR, CVPP, CCRT, CVA Washington State University [WSU]
12 & 222 & EPRT Local Representative: Jessica Bell DVM Washington State University [WSU]
10 & 221 & EPRT Local Representative: Peggy Barr DVM, PhD Western University [WU]
5 & 220 & EPRT Local Representative: Fernando Amitrano DVM University of Arizona [UA]