Newsroom and Blog Updates on Pursuing Excellence
April 25, 2022
This week's e-Communication includes information about an upcoming Rural Track webinar, office hours with the Insittutional Review Commttee Executive Director, the Milestones reporting window, and more.
Behind the Poster: An Interview with Sarah Meadows, EdD, FACEHP
Sarah Meadows, EdD, FACEHP and Abraham Nussbaum, MD, MTS studied the effects of financial debt on resident burnout. and presented their work in the Poster Hall at the 2022 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, which was held virtually March 30-April 1, 2022.
Behind the Poster: An Interview with Gregory Guldner, MD, MS
Recognizing the high rates of psychological distress of various forms for residents in training, Dr. Gregory Guldner and colleagues sought to learn whether an opt out approach would increase the number of residents who actually engaged with available therapy options.
April 18, 2022
This week's e-Communication includes access to three toolkits to assist transitions in medical education, a letter from President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Nasca to ACGME volunteers, and more.
A Message from Dr. Thomas J. Nasca During National Volunteer Week
Letter from ACGME President & CEO Dr. Thomas J. Nasca thanking the hundreds of ACGME volunteers who are integral to the work of the ACGME and improving graduate medical education.
Organizations Collaborate to Publish Transition in Medical Education Toolkits
The ACGME, AACOM, AAMC, ABMS, AOA, and ECFMG have released three toolkits designed to aid programs and learners as they progress through disrupted years of the medical education continuum.
#ACGME2022 Session Summary: Milestones for the Clinician Educator—Finding Your Path
The new Clinician Educator Milestones are designed to aid in the development and improvement of teaching competence by assessing educational skills of faculty members across the continuum of medical education. They were introduced and contextualized in a session at the 2022 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.
April 11, 2022
This week's e-Communication includes inforamtion on the new Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) Advisory Group, revised Milestones, Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program blackout dates, and more.
Behind the Poster: An Interview with Natasha Bray, DO, MSEd
Dr. Natasha Bray and colleagues explored how completing a residency in underserved areas affects independent practice location choice in a continuation and expansion of a previous study.
Behind the Poster: An Interview with Saadia Akhtar, MD
For more than two years, the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed how every person on the globe works, plays, and interacts with each other. As what many hoped would be a few weeks of fear and uncertainty stretched into months and months, no one felt this stress more than health care professionals on the frontlines.
