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The University of Chicago's Fall 2024 issue of Medicine on the Midway features Dr. Ortega in an article on challenges faced by street medicine programs due to increased homelessness and migration, as well as the importance of culturally competent care and the need for medical education to address health inequities and prepare future clinicians to serve underserved populations effectively.

The ACGME, American Medical Association (AMA), and Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) have launched the Physician Data Initiative (PDI), a collaborative effort aimed at improving the health of the nation by better understanding the dynamics of the physician workforce.

The ACGME is excited to announce the availability of its new Language Equity in Health Care Toolkit, a partnership with the American Medical Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, and the National Council for Interpreting in Healthcare. The toolkit is part of ACGME Equity Matters®, with the goal of providing educational content and access to resources to improve language equity in health care and graduate medical education.

The ACGME is proud to share the ACGME Equity Matters® Resource Collection, a comprehensive and dynamic set of resources designed to assist Sponsoring Institutions, programs, and specialty organizations in achieving their diversity, equity, and inclusion goals.

The ACGME is proud to announce the 2025 recipients of the ACGME Awards, showcasing the extraordinary contributions, diversity, and strengths of the graduate medical education community.

At its September 2024 annual meeting, the ACGME Board of Directors approved the following slate of officers. George E. Thibault, MD is the new Chair of the ACGME Board. Jessica L. Bienstock, MD, MPH is the Board’s new vice chair. Josepha A. Cheong, MD is the Board’s new treasurer.

More than 300 designated institutional officials, institutional coordinators, and other members of the graduate medical education (GME) community attended the ACGME’s third National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions and Clinical Learning Environments meeting, Building Connections, Leading Change, at the ACGME Conference Center and online October 8 and 9, 2024.

“With all the complexity of this issue, it’s not enough to tackle this just from the educational angle, it’s not enough just to do policy, it’s not enough to do research alone. It’s multidimensional.”