NEW! #ACGME2026: Making the Case for Attending
Professional growth and development are essential for career advancement and continuous learning. The ACGME understands that institutional budgets are often tight and that attending the Annual Educational Conference requires thoughtful justification, and provides resources and information on the conference website to help demonstrate that attending this conference is a worthwhile investment.
Early Bird Registration Ends December 18
More than 3,500 members of the graduate medical education (GME) community have already registered! Register by December 18 to secure the Early Bird rate.
Email registration questions to registration@acgme.org.
REGISTER TODAY!
#ACGME2026 Job Board
The Annual Educational Conference Job Board gives recruiters, institutions, and programs the opportunity to post positions and reach thousands of GME community job seekers before and through the conference! Additionally, the conference will host in-person recruiters and offer career resources for attendees in a dedicated area of the Exhibit Hall.
Learn More About the Annual Educational Conference Job Board
Email Annual Educational Conference Job Board questions to conferencejobboard@acgme.org.
Proposed Program Requirements
The following Program Requirements and accompanying Impact Statements are posted for review and comment, here:
NEW! COMMENT DEADLINE: JANUARY 21, 2026
Micrographic Surgery and Dermatologic Oncology
COMMENT DEADLINE: JANUARY 2, 2026
Dermatology
Radiation Oncology
THURSDAY! ACGME Common Program Requirements Major Revision Second Stakeholder Survey
The projected three-year major revision of the ACGME Common Program Requirements is underway. The Common Program Requirements Major Revision Task Force is committed to a transparent, comprehensive process that reflects the broad perspectives of the GME community. To that end, the Task Force is pursuing extensive data gathering and stakeholder engagement, including multiple stakeholder surveys.
Stakeholder Survey 2 – (Closes December 11)
This survey invites feedback on: work hours; dedicated time; faculty ratio; quality and safety; well-being; categorization; artificial intelligence; and nutrition. Note: This survey seeks input from a wide variety of roles on issues relevant to resident education; future surveys will offer similar opportunities to provide input on issues relevant to fellow education.
The results of this survey and an update on the major revision process will be shared at interactive sessions during the 2026 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.
Other Opportunities for Engagement
Stay tuned for other opportunities to provide input, and for information about public review and comment as the draft requirements are developed.
This revision process is an opportunity to revisit these foundational requirements with fresh perspectives. Details and updates will be shared via the e-Communication, on the ACGME website, and on the ACGME’s social media accounts. The ACGME thanks the community for its participation in this important process.
Email questions to Manager, Accreditation Standards and Special Projects Amy Fenton.
NEXT WEEK! ACGME LINC
Topic: Well-Being: Helping You and Your Program Thrive!
Date and Time: December 15, 5:00-6:00 p.m. Central
Who: Applicable to all roles in GME
ACGME LINC [Listening, Information, News, Collaboration] provides an opportunity for the GME community to interact with and hear from ACGME representatives, and to receive updates and information on ACGME activities.
Miss a previous session? View the recordings. (Note: A free Learn at ACGME account is required to access the recordings.)
UPCOMING SESSIONS - SAVE THE DATES!
January 26
March 16
April 20
Registration is first come, first served. Email questions to outreach@acgme.org.
Register for this ACGME LINC Session
NEXT WEEK! Rural and Underserved GME Interest Group
Date and Time: December 16, 1:00-2:00 p.m. Central
Topic: Family Medicine GME in Rural and Urban Underserved Areas
These Zoom calls (previously the Medically Underserved Areas Interest Group) take place on the third Tuesday of each month and are open to the entire GME community. Each session is recorded and is available in the Rural and Underserved GME Resource Center in Learn at ACGME. (Note: A free Learn at ACGME account is required to access the recordings.)
Register for the December Interest Group
NEXT WEEK! Clinician Educator Journal Club
Next Session: December 18, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Central
Article: Excellent vs Excessive: Helping Trainees Balance Performance and Perfectionism
Speaker(s): Kay M. Johnson, MD, MPH and Stuart Slavin, MD, MEd
This group meets online on the third Thursday of each month to discuss journal articles and timely topics in medical education. Participants should read the article ahead of time and come with questions.
Continuing medical education (CME) is now available for attending these meetings. View CME information.
Missed a session? View on-demand recordings of past meetings.
Send registration questions to virtualevents@acgme.org.
Register for the December Journal Club
ACGME Seeks Appeals Panel Members
The ACGME is seeking physicians to serve on standing Appeals Panels for the following specialties:
- Allergy and Immunology
- Child Neurology
- Colon and Rectal Surgery
- Medical Genetics and Genomics
- Nuclear Medicine
- Radiation Oncology
APPLICANT CRITERIA
- Must be certified by the relevant American Board of Medical Specialties member board or American Osteopathic Association certifying board.
- Must be able to devote sufficient time to the Appeals Panel work.
- Should have at least three years' experience as a program director, department chair, associate/assistant program director, and/or core faculty member.
- Applicants not currently serving in one of these roles may be considered if they held one of these positions within the last three years.
- Applicants’ programs must have a status of Continued Accreditation.
Apply by January 9, 2026.
Email Senior Administrator, Governance, Appeals, Policies, and Procedures Lisa Davis for more information.
NEW! Combined Programs Update
The board curricular requirements for the following combined program formats are now posted in the table on the Combined Programs page:
- Anesthesiology-emergency medicine
- Anesthesiology-internal medicine
Minor edits were made to the curricular requirements for:
- Emergency medicine-internal medicine
- Emergency medicine-internal medicine-critical care medicine
Curricular requirements for the remaining formats will be posted as they become available, and communication will be sent directly to programs.
Specialty-specific questions should be directed to the relevant Review Committee staff members.
Seeking Psychiatry Program Directors for Interviews
The Review Committee for Psychiatry will soon begin work on the 10-year major revision of the Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Psychiatry.
To inform the next set of Program Requirements, the ACGME seeks current psychiatry program directors who are interested in participating in a one-on-one, one-hour interview, to provide their perspectives on the future of psychiatry residency education. The ACGME also seeks current psychiatry program directors to participate in a Stakeholder Summit in Chicago on June 8-9, 2026.
Participate in Interviews and/or Stakeholder Summit
NEW! Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment Spring 2026 Offerings
Sessions: March 1-6; March 29-April 3, 2026
Details: Space is limited; interested individuals should register soon.
Participants learn how to build effective assessment programs for their residency or fellowship, with topics including assessment methods, direct observation, feedback, Clinical Competency Committees, and more. New for 2026 will be a session on artificial intelligence (AI) in assessment.
Email questions about the course to facultydevelopment@acgme.org.
Email registration or payment questions to registration@acgme.org.
Faculty Development Hubs
The ACGME collaborates with institutions and organizations in the US and abroad to offer scaled, tailored versions of its Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment course. See below for open courses and visit the Faculty Development Hubs web page for more information.
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (in person; Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine (in person; Nutley, New Jersey)
Mountain Area Health Education Center (in person; Asheville, North Carolina)
Southeast Hub (in person; Greenville, South Carolina)
Washington University (in person; St. Louis, Missouri)
NEW! Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) Articles of the Week
Monitoring Competency-Based Medical Education Uptake: Analysis of Entrustable Professional Activity Submission, Expiration, and Assessment Scores
Tahereh Firoozi, PhD; Anna Oswald, MD, MMEd, FRCPC; Deena M. Hamza, PhD; Hollis Lai, PhD
For this Brief Report research article, the authors analyzed entrustable professional activity (EPA) observation data from residents’ electronic portfolios across 45 programs at one Canadian institution from 2018 to 2025 to discover the patterns and contributing factors associated with EPA observation submission rates, expiration rates, and assessment scores.
Can a Car Make a Blueberry Sandwich?
Eric J. Warm, MD; Leslie Applegate, MD; Nicole Damari, MD, MS; Matthew Kelleher, MD, MEd; Benjamin Kinnear, MD, PhD, MEd
Constructed as a series of fictional emails among faculty members, this creative Perspectives article explores the conflicting views and profound implications of a possible “foolproof” AI algorithm designed to recruit residents.
JGME Seeks Visual Media Resident Editorial Board Members
Candidates should email their CV and a brief letter of interest, which includes the statement that their program director supports participation, to jgme@acgme.org.
Visit the JGME Announcements page for more information.