If you were working in GME back in the 80s, maybe you attended one of the ACGME’s early forerunners of the Annual Educational Conference.

Jamie Dow, EdM, is assistant director for resident education and training at the University of Florida. Her poster, Mindfulness in Neurosurgery: Improving Neurosurgeon Wellness in Training and Beyond (with co-authors W. Christopher Fox, MD, Associate Program Director, University of Florida, and Gregory Murad, MD, Program Director, University of Florida), looked at wellness in neurosurgery, which Dow says “has traditionally been considered an oxymoron.” However, as priorities among neurological surgery residents evolve and the effects of physician burnout are increasingly recognized across specialties, life balance and overall well-being have become areas of emphasis and an opportunity for program improvement.

Registration for the 2019 Annual Educational Conference opens today! We are so excited to come together again as a community – the graduate medical education community – to share ideas and research, to network, to learn, to teach, to invigorate and inspire innovation, and to hear about all the ways that physician educators and physicians in training and the coordinators and administrators and leaders in their programs and institutions find Meaning in Medicine.

This week's edition of the e-Communication includes information the Annual Educational Conference; ACGME Awards; Review and Comment; and Milestones News.

2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference registration opens this week; access the new Language Equity in Health Care Toolkit; participate in the Clinician Educator Journal Club; and more.

Read about the ACGME's Call for Sessions for the 2025 Annual Educational Conference; proposed Program Requirements available for Review and Comment; and the Clinician Educator Journal Club.

A post to assist those traveling from outside of the US to prepare and know what to expect from the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.

A Q and A with three of the organizer-facilitators of the ACGME's upcoming Renewal 2024: A GME retreat fostering compassionate leadership and personal growth.