Four major plenaries after Friday morning’s address by ACGME President and CEO Thomas J. Nasca, MD will be presented by outstanding national leaders, and will discuss critical issues at the forefront of the GME discussion right now.
Griffin P. Rodgers, MD, MBA, MMSc, MACP, the director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), presented NIDDK Initiatives to Eliminate Health Disparities and Train a Diverse Workforce as one of the Annual Educational Conference’s three featured sessions on Friday, March 8.
FierceHealthcare, an independent media outlet dedicated to health care industry news and analysis, included a brief about the ACGME's new Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer William A. McDade, MD, PhD in its "Physician Practice Roundup."
William A. McDade, MD, PhD has joined the ACGME as its Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. He will lead diversity and inclusion activities focusing on national initiatives to include underrepresented groups in the medical education continuum.
On this first full day of the ACGME Annual Educational Conference, attendees were encouraged to “reignite the fire” of passion that drives them to work in graduate medical education, and to rediscover their meaning in medicine.
The ACGME participated in the third meeting of the National Academy of Medicine's (NAM) Action Collaborative on Clinician Well-Being and Resilience, which gave the public an opportunity to engage with experts on diversity, inclusion, and loneliness.