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Join thousands of colleagues at the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference! With experiences and content for both seasoned and first-time attendees, #ACGME2025 will provide opportunities to network with the graduate medical education professionals and changemakers who are shaping the future of academic medicine.

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

This collaboration among the ACGME, Association of American Medical Colleges, and the American Medical Association, aimed at better understanding the dynamics of the physician workforce, has created recommendations to standardize race and ethnicity data collection in medical education, and to promote language equity in medicine.

Are all residency and fellowship programs in the US ACGME-accredited?

No. ACGME accreditation is a voluntary process programs and the institutions that sponsor them choose to complete. There are residency and fellowship programs that are not accredited by the ACGME. In some cases, this is because the ACGME does not yet accredit a particular specialty or subspecialty. In other cases, programs and/or institutions have opted not to apply for accreditation from the ACGME. Residency programs that are not accredited by the ACGME do not receive Medicare funding from CMS for Direct Graduate Medical Education (DGME) and Indirect Medical Education (IME).

Does the ACGME accredit US medical schools?

No. The ACGME only accredits GME programs and the institutions that sponsor them (“Sponsoring Institutions”). The Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) accredits US allopathic medical schools and is sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and the American Medical Association (AMA). US osteopathic medical schools are accredited by the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation (COCA) of the American Osteopathic Association (AOA).

Improvement and Initiatives

The ACGME is committed to initiatives that enhance and improve graduate medical education.

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