#ACGME2026 Registration Opens Soon
NEXT WEEK! Arts and Humanities in Medicine: Call for Submissions
For the first time, the ACGME invites the graduate medical education (GME) community to share their musical talents as part of the Arts and Humanities in Medicine feature at the conference. This initiative celebrates creative expression and explores how music fosters healing, reflection, and connection in the medical profession. The conference showcase musical performances and will also feature a session with physician-authors. The submission deadline is next Monday, November 17.
Learn More and Submit for Arts and Humanities in Medicine
Annual Educational Conference Job Board
The Annual Educational Conference Job Board is open, giving 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
NEW! Patient Safety Toolkit Available
The ACGME announces the availability of a new toolkit in the ACGME’s digital learning platform, Learn at ACGME. “A Toolkit to Assess Patient Safety in the Clinical Learning Environment” provides a framework for GME leaders and clinical learning environment executives to partner together to continuously assess efforts to optimize patient safety in their clinical learning environments.
The toolkit is designed to leverage the expertise of these leaders to identify improvement opportunities and solve systems-based problems to enhance patient safety in the clinical learning environment. The toolkit also provides opportunities to improve resident, fellow, and staff member engagement in patient safety.
Access the toolkit in Learn at ACGME. Note that a free account is required to access this resource in the platform.
NEW! ACGME Announces Nutrition Task Force
The ACGME is taking concrete steps to operationalize and enhance physician competencies related to nutrition across specialties, beginning with the commissioning of a Nutrition Task Force by the Board of Directors. The group will provide oversight and guidance as the ACGME works to fulfill its commitments, while ensuring accountability through updates to the Board.
Read the full announcement, including a listing of Task Force members, in the ACGME Newsroom.
NEXT SESSION! 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 DATE!
January 26
March 16
April 20
Registration is first come, first served. Email questions to outreach@acgme.org.
Register for this ACGME LINC Session
Medically Underserved Areas Interest Group
Date and Time: November 18, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Central
Topic: Psychiatry GME in Rural and Underserved Areas
These Zoom calls 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 in GME Resource Center in Learn at ACGME. (Note: A free Learn at ACGME account is required to access the recordings.)
Register for November Interest Group
Clinician Educator Journal Club
Next Session: Thursday, November 20, 2025, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Central
Article: A Qualitative Study of Workplace Gossip in the Residency Learning Environment
Speaker(s): Michael Chaikof, MD, FRCSC, MS-HPEd
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 November 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
- 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! Seeking Psychiatry Program Directors for Interviews
The Review Committee 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
Combined Programs Update
The board curricular requirements for the following combined program formats are now posted in the table on the Combined Programs page:
- 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.
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)
Southeast Hub (in person; Greenville, South Carolina)
Washington University (in person; St. Louis, Missouri)
TODAY! Journal of Graduate Medical Educatoin (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. Nominations are due today.
Visit the JGME Announcements page for more information.
NEW! Articles of the Week
Career Outcomes Among Graduates of 2 Urban Health Primary Care Training Programs
Preetham Bachina, BS; Ariel G. Vilidnitsky, MD; Katherine Shaw, MD; Monica Mix, MD, MPH; Talia Robledo-Gil, MD; Leonard Feldman, MD, FACP, FAAP, MHM
The authors of this article surveyed graduates from a single institution’s primary care for urban underserved populations and found that most have careers that align with the missions of practicing primary care in urban settings, serving underserved populations, and taking on leadership roles. Aligning a program’s curriculum and goals with a clear mission may effectively shape graduates’ career paths, and tracking alumni is a valuable way to measure this success.
Residency Program Signaling and Interview Scheduling: Time to Work Together for a Smoother UME-GME Transition
Alison Volpe Holmes, MD, MPH; Andrew Perron, MD; David Marzano, MD; Daniel Dent, MD; Arvind Suresh, MD; Karen George, MD, MPH
Residency application signaling allows applicants to indicate genuine interest in programs, helping reduce inflated application numbers and enabling programs to focus on candidates most likely to thrive. Specialties that permit more signals and use tiered systems have seen improved outcomes. Still, there is variability and a lack of standardization across specialties, which can create confusion and inefficiency. This article calls for collaboration among stakeholders to standardize signaling and interview scheduling processes, aiming to reduce stress, improve transparency, and create a fairer, more efficient transition from undergraduate to graduate medical education.
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Work Hour Requirements: A Review of Recent Evidence
Meghan E. Lark, MD; Austin E. Airhart, MD; Payton M. Miller, MD; Jeanette W. Chung, PhD; Karl Y. Bilimoria, MD, MS
This article reviews the impact of ACGME resident work hour policies on patient and resident outcomes, finding that changes in work hour restrictions, including flexible scheduling and shift length limits, generally do not affect patient mortality, readmissions, or resident education outcomes. However, the evidence on resident satisfaction and well-being remains mixed and varies by specialty, with some studies showing increased occupational hazards and medical errors when weekly work hours exceed 80. Further specialty-specific research, especially using objective metrics, is needed to clarify the effects of extended duration shifts and guide future policy.