Research
My Conference Experience: Q and A with Nick Yaghmour, MPP
Nick Yaghmour is the Associate Director for Well-Being and Milestones Research at the ACGME. We asked him about his experience with the conference, his role, and what else he's working on.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Athena Gonzalez
At the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Athena Gonzalez and her team presented their poster, Strategies for Optimizing Fit Testing for Residents and the Evolving Role of the Program Coordinator, about their work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure residents were wearing properly sized and fitted masks and respirators, even as supplies changed.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Bree Bower
Bree Bower and her team in the anesthesiology and pain medicine department at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio studied the affects of COVID-19 on fellow recruitment and presented that work at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference in the Poster Hall.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Rachel Ruderman, MD, MPH
Rachel Ruderman, MD, MPH and her colleagues created a tool to help infertility patients undergoing numerous tests in different departments and even different institutions keep better record of their care, reducing frustration for both patients and physicians.

ACGME Releases Pursuing Excellence Pathway Leaders Patient Safety Collaborative Report
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recently released its summary report of the Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments (Pursuing Excellence) Pathway Leaders Patient Safety Collaborative.
ACGME Releases 2019-2020 Statistics on Graduate Medical Education Programs and Resident Physicians

Journal Notes: Continuing the Conversation with the JGME Podcast
Along with the August 2020 issue, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education is excited to introduce the sixth episode of the JGME Podcast, Hot Topics in MedEd.

Journal Notes: Navigating Publishing during a Pandemic
In the first post for our new series, Journal Notes, read about how the staff and editors of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education adjusted their editorial plan to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic for the June 2020 issue.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Brooks J. Obr, MD, MME
Brooks J. Obr, MD, MME's poster, “The Paradox of Resident Physician Leadership Education: ‘It’s very important and I’m already quite satisfied with my skill set,’” presented at the 2020 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, explores residents’ and fellows’ attitudes toward leadership education.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Anita Akbar Ali, MD
Anita Akbar Ali, MD’s poster, Child Abuse Curriculum for Anesthesiology Residents, presented at the 2020 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, reports on the knowledge, attitude, confidence, and commitment residents had about reporting child abuse before and after participating in the curriculum.
