Zareen Zaidi

Biographic Data

ID	5127832
NAME	Zareen Zaidi
GIVEN NAMES	Zareen
FAMILY NAME	Zaidi
SIGNATURE	ZAIDI Z
AFFILIATIONS	University of Florida
ORCID	0000-0003-4328-5766
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	27
TOTAL CITATIONS	1
AUTHOR COUNT	27
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	2016
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2026
H-INDEX	1

“We're Kind of in This Weird Space”: How Asian Americans physicians navigate perspectives towards race‐conscious admissions
Open AccessCandace J Chow, Gavin Truong et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2026
Towards justice: Applying Rawlsian fairness to health professions education
Open AccessErin Wentzell, Ahdeah Pajoohesh‐Ganji et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2026
CONTEXT: Health professions education (HPE) continues to confront persistent inequities in access, opportunity and outcomes, even as diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives have become increasingly contested within institutional and public discourse. Although DEI efforts draw upon a long intellectual tradition in the social sciences, DEI research within HPE remains undertheorized, in part because the field is often siloed from broader p…
The illusion of academic freedom and the promise of the undercommons
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Bridget C OʼBrien et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2026
What if academic freedom was never truly free? This Commentary explores how the undercommons offers a radical reimagining of intellectual liberation beyond institutional constraints. #MedEd
The House of the MedEdSCHOLARs: Designing Supportive Environments for Medical Education Scholarship
Anna-Kay Thomas, Ashley Kennedy Mitchell et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2025
The Research in Medical Education committee established MedEdSCHOLAR, a mentoring program, in 2021. This commentary, written by the second cohort of MedEdSCHOLARs (early-career health professions education scholars from varied clinical and nonclinical backgrounds), frames contemporary mentorship using a house metaphor. The mentees describe how, like a well-built house requiring both quality construction and ongoing maintenance, effective mentorsh…
Twelve tips for strengthening global equity in health professions education publication
Komal Atta, P Ravi Shankar et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2025
Despite recent calls to engage in scholarship with attention to anti-racism, equity, and social justice at a global level in Health Professions Education (HPE), the field has made few significant advances in incorporating the views of the so-called “Other” in understanding the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge as well as the epistemic justification of knowledge production. Editors, authors, and reviewers must take responsibility for question…
Training socially accountable clinician-citizens: Integrating clinical public health education in a medical school curriculum
Open AccessKofi Essel, Hana Akselrod et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2025
By adopting a holistic perspective that looks 'upstream' at the underlying determinants of health, physicians can develop more effective strategies for promoting wellness and reducing health inequities in an increasingly diverse and complex society. Public health focuses on disease prevention and promotion of health through organized efforts by individuals and society. Population health focuses on the health outcomes of a group of individuals. We…
Unveiling the Invisible: Challenges Faced by Arab Women International Medical Graduates in U.S. Academia
Open AccessMaram Alkhatib, Inaya Hasan et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2024
Why Competency Frameworks Are Insufficiently Nuanced for Health Equity Teaching and Assessment
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Daniele Ölveczky et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2024
This article suggests how competency-based medical education should robustly integrate health equity by focusing on physicians' responsibilities to (1) know why and how underlying structural mechanisms contribute to health equity and then (2) take action to achieve health equity in their practice. This article first canvasses currently available frameworks for helping trainees cultivate these 2 specific skills of discernment and action. This arti…
Editors as Gatekeepers: One Medical Education Journal’s Efforts to Resist Racism in Scholarly Publishing
Open AccessT R Wyatt, Justin L Bullock et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023
A Primer to Critical Race Theory
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, T R Wyatt et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023
Zaidi, Zareen MD, PhD1; Wyatt, Tasha R PhD2; Naidu, Thirusha PhD3; Park, Yoon Soo PhD4 Author Information
Whiteness theory and the (in)visible hierarchy in medical education
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Nicole Rockich‐Winston et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2023
From What We Are Doing to Why: Describing Rime’s Core Values
Dorene F Balmer, Meredith E Young et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022
Major life events afford opportunities to reflect on what matters. For the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Program Planning Committee, the events of 2020 and 2021 have been both celebratory and tragic. RIME turned 60 in 2021, which provided an opportunity to celebrate its longstanding commitment to promoting rigorous research and supporting the professional development of medical education scholars. 1 This celebratory milestone was tempered,…
Can I Ask a Question About URiM Awards That I Don’t Know the Answer to? Designing an Award for Underrepresented Medical Education Researchers
Zareen Zaidi, Justin L Sewell et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022
Meaningful Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) efforts may be stymied by concerns about whether proposed initiatives are performative or tokenistic. The purpose of this project was to analyze discussions by the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Program Planning committee about how best to recognize and support underrepresented in medicine (URiM) researchers in medical education to generate lessons learned that might inform local, national, …
Bricolage: A tool for race‐related, historically situated complex research
Open AccessT R Wyatt, Zareen ZaidiARTICLEMedical Education2022
Teaching: The expression of freedom
Open AccessZareen ZaidiARTICLEMedical Education2022
Zaidi uses neoliberalism to analyze Du et al.'s, discussion of faculty agency, posing the question of whether we actually have agency in medical education
From the “top-down” and the “bottom-up”: Centering Foucault’s notion of biopower and individual accountability within systemic racism
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Antonio A Bush et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Medical Education2021
Endarkening the Epistemé: Critical Race Theory and Medical Education Scholarship
Zareen Zaidi, Meredith Young et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021
The pervasive violence of racism has been revealed vividly in the past year. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated undeniable inequities in health care. Across the globe, people responded to the continual assault on Black life, crystallized by the death of George Floyd and others, by participating in mass uprisings. People have had to reckon, in unanticipated ways, with the unflinching disparities in opportunities, including access to…
Rime 60 Years: Celebration and Future Horizons
Zareen Zaidi, Katherine S McOwen et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021
This year marks the 60th anniversary (1961–2021) of Research in Medical Education (RIME). Over the past 6 decades, RIME has selected medical education research to be presented each year at the Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting: Learn Serve Lead and published in a supplement of Academic Medicine . In this article, the authors surveyed RIME chairs from the past 20 years to identify ways that RIME has advanced medical education…
Exploring how physician educators approach politically charged topics with learners
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Rita Henderson et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2021
‘Whispers and shadows’: A critical review of the professional identity literature with respect to minority physicians
Open AccessT R Wyatt, Dorene F Balmer et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2021
The Hiker’s Guide to the Rime Supplement: Choosing Directions in Research
Justin L Sewell, Andrea N Leep-Hunderfund et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020
In this Commentary, the authors seek to build on prior RIME commentaries by considering how researchers transition from worldviews, focal lengths, and research goals to research directions and methodological choices. The authors use the analogy of a hiker to illustrate how different researchers studying a similar phenomenon can choose among different research directions, which lead down different paths and offer different perspectives on a proble…
Rime Foreword: What Constitutes Science in Educational Research? Applying Rigor in Our Research Approaches
Young-Shin Park, Zareen Zaidi et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020
What constitutes science in educational research? This question is not as straightforward to answer given the diversity of disciplines represented in health professions education.1 As researchers, we engage in scientific study to advance our field; we are also an applied field, with goals to produce knowledge that can translate into practice and change. Our field has roots in multiple disciplines, including education, psychology, sociology, biome…
International Medical Graduates: Promoting Equity and Belonging
Zareen Zaidi, Mantosh Dewan et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020
International medical school graduates (IMGs) play a vital role in the health care system of the United States. They constitute roughly one-quarter of the physician workforce, comprising a significant proportion of the primary care providers in high-need rural and urban areas, where they provide equal and, in some instances, better care than U.S. graduates. Nonetheless, they face a series of hurdles in entering U.S. residency programs and through…
The Five W’s of Rime Program Planning
Kate S McOwen, Zareen Zaidi et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020
College Students with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Qualitative Study of Challenges Associated with College Transition and Self-Care
Open AccessNaueen A Chaudhry, Angela Pham et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2020
The social impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) on student transition to college is significant, yet poorly understood. Methods: Two 90-min focus groups (FGs) were conducted with eight student-patients with IBD. Reflective journals were used to corroborate, elaborate, or challenge emergent FG findings. Results: Six themes emerged: (1) transitioning to college, (2) interacting with physicians, (3) affecting social life, (4) managing the dise…

Cultural hegemony? Educators’ perspectives on facilitating cross-cultural dialogue
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Daniëlle Verstegen et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2016
Our results indicate that developing critical consciousness and cross-cultural competency will require instructional design to identify longitudinal opportunities to bring up cross-cultural issues, and training facilitators to foster cross-cultural discussions by asking clarifying questions and navigating crucial/sensitive conversations
Identity text: An Educational Intervention to Foster Cultural Interaction
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Daniëlle Verstegen et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2016Cited by: 1References: 5
While the impact of providing pedagogical space using Identity Text on cognitive engagement and enhanced learning requires further research, the findings of this study suggest that it is a useful pedagogical strategy to support cross-cultural education
The Hiker’s Guide to the Rime Supplement: Choosing Directions in Research
Justin L Sewell, Andrea N Leep-Hunderfund et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020
In this Commentary, the authors seek to build on prior RIME commentaries by considering how researchers transition from worldviews, focal lengths, and research goals to research directions and methodological choices. The authors use the analogy of a hiker to illustrate how different researchers studying a similar phenomenon can choose among different research directions, which lead down different paths and offer different perspectives on a proble…
Rime Foreword: What Constitutes Science in Educational Research? Applying Rigor in Our Research Approaches
Young-Shin Park, Zareen Zaidi et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020
What constitutes science in educational research? This question is not as straightforward to answer given the diversity of disciplines represented in health professions education.1 As researchers, we engage in scientific study to advance our field; we are also an applied field, with goals to produce knowledge that can translate into practice and change. Our field has roots in multiple disciplines, including education, psychology, sociology, biome…
International Medical Graduates: Promoting Equity and Belonging
Zareen Zaidi, Mantosh Dewan et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020
International medical school graduates (IMGs) play a vital role in the health care system of the United States. They constitute roughly one-quarter of the physician workforce, comprising a significant proportion of the primary care providers in high-need rural and urban areas, where they provide equal and, in some instances, better care than U.S. graduates. Nonetheless, they face a series of hurdles in entering U.S. residency programs and through…
The Five W’s of Rime Program Planning
Kate S McOwen, Zareen Zaidi et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2020
College Students with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Qualitative Study of Challenges Associated with College Transition and Self-Care
Open AccessNaueen A Chaudhry, Angela Pham et al.ARTICLEHealth Equity2020
The social impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) on student transition to college is significant, yet poorly understood. Methods: Two 90-min focus groups (FGs) were conducted with eight student-patients with IBD. Reflective journals were used to corroborate, elaborate, or challenge emergent FG findings. Results: Six themes emerged: (1) transitioning to college, (2) interacting with physicians, (3) affecting social life, (4) managing the dise…
From the “top-down” and the “bottom-up”: Centering Foucault’s notion of biopower and individual accountability within systemic racism
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Antonio A Bush et al.ARTICLEPerspectives on Medical Education2021
Endarkening the Epistemé: Critical Race Theory and Medical Education Scholarship
Zareen Zaidi, Meredith Young et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021
The pervasive violence of racism has been revealed vividly in the past year. The response to the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated undeniable inequities in health care. Across the globe, people responded to the continual assault on Black life, crystallized by the death of George Floyd and others, by participating in mass uprisings. People have had to reckon, in unanticipated ways, with the unflinching disparities in opportunities, including access to…
Rime 60 Years: Celebration and Future Horizons
Zareen Zaidi, Katherine S McOwen et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2021
This year marks the 60th anniversary (1961–2021) of Research in Medical Education (RIME). Over the past 6 decades, RIME has selected medical education research to be presented each year at the Association of American Medical Colleges Annual Meeting: Learn Serve Lead and published in a supplement of Academic Medicine . In this article, the authors surveyed RIME chairs from the past 20 years to identify ways that RIME has advanced medical education…
Exploring how physician educators approach politically charged topics with learners
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Rita Henderson et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2021
‘Whispers and shadows’: A critical review of the professional identity literature with respect to minority physicians
Open AccessT R Wyatt, Dorene F Balmer et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2021
From What We Are Doing to Why: Describing Rime’s Core Values
Dorene F Balmer, Meredith E Young et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022
Major life events afford opportunities to reflect on what matters. For the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Program Planning Committee, the events of 2020 and 2021 have been both celebratory and tragic. RIME turned 60 in 2021, which provided an opportunity to celebrate its longstanding commitment to promoting rigorous research and supporting the professional development of medical education scholars. 1 This celebratory milestone was tempered,…
Can I Ask a Question About URiM Awards That I Don’t Know the Answer to? Designing an Award for Underrepresented Medical Education Researchers
Zareen Zaidi, Justin L Sewell et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2022
Meaningful Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) efforts may be stymied by concerns about whether proposed initiatives are performative or tokenistic. The purpose of this project was to analyze discussions by the Research in Medical Education (RIME) Program Planning committee about how best to recognize and support underrepresented in medicine (URiM) researchers in medical education to generate lessons learned that might inform local, national, …
Bricolage: A tool for race‐related, historically situated complex research
Open AccessT R Wyatt, Zareen ZaidiARTICLEMedical Education2022
Teaching: The expression of freedom
Open AccessZareen ZaidiARTICLEMedical Education2022
Zaidi uses neoliberalism to analyze Du et al.'s, discussion of faculty agency, posing the question of whether we actually have agency in medical education
Editors as Gatekeepers: One Medical Education Journal’s Efforts to Resist Racism in Scholarly Publishing
Open AccessT R Wyatt, Justin L Bullock et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023
A Primer to Critical Race Theory
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, T R Wyatt et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2023
Zaidi, Zareen MD, PhD1; Wyatt, Tasha R PhD2; Naidu, Thirusha PhD3; Park, Yoon Soo PhD4 Author Information
Whiteness theory and the (in)visible hierarchy in medical education
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Nicole Rockich‐Winston et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2023
Unveiling the Invisible: Challenges Faced by Arab Women International Medical Graduates in U.S. Academia
Open AccessMaram Alkhatib, Inaya Hasan et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2024
Why Competency Frameworks Are Insufficiently Nuanced for Health Equity Teaching and Assessment
Open AccessZareen Zaidi, Daniele Ölveczky et al.ARTICLEThe AMA Journal of Ethic2024
This article suggests how competency-based medical education should robustly integrate health equity by focusing on physicians' responsibilities to (1) know why and how underlying structural mechanisms contribute to health equity and then (2) take action to achieve health equity in their practice. This article first canvasses currently available frameworks for helping trainees cultivate these 2 specific skills of discernment and action. This arti…
The House of the MedEdSCHOLARs: Designing Supportive Environments for Medical Education Scholarship
Anna-Kay Thomas, Ashley Kennedy Mitchell et al.ARTICLEAcademic Medicine2025
The Research in Medical Education committee established MedEdSCHOLAR, a mentoring program, in 2021. This commentary, written by the second cohort of MedEdSCHOLARs (early-career health professions education scholars from varied clinical and nonclinical backgrounds), frames contemporary mentorship using a house metaphor. The mentees describe how, like a well-built house requiring both quality construction and ongoing maintenance, effective mentorsh…
Twelve tips for strengthening global equity in health professions education publication
Komal Atta, P Ravi Shankar et al.ARTICLEMedical Teacher2025
Despite recent calls to engage in scholarship with attention to anti-racism, equity, and social justice at a global level in Health Professions Education (HPE), the field has made few significant advances in incorporating the views of the so-called “Other” in understanding the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge as well as the epistemic justification of knowledge production. Editors, authors, and reviewers must take responsibility for question…
Training socially accountable clinician-citizens: Integrating clinical public health education in a medical school curriculum
Open AccessKofi Essel, Hana Akselrod et al.ARTICLEMedical Education Online2025
By adopting a holistic perspective that looks 'upstream' at the underlying determinants of health, physicians can develop more effective strategies for promoting wellness and reducing health inequities in an increasingly diverse and complex society. Public health focuses on disease prevention and promotion of health through organized efforts by individuals and society. Population health focuses on the health outcomes of a group of individuals. We…
“We're Kind of in This Weird Space”: How Asian Americans physicians navigate perspectives towards race‐conscious admissions
Open AccessCandace J Chow, Gavin Truong et al.ARTICLEMedical Education2026