Research

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Athena Gonzalez

At the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Athena Gonzalez and her team presented their poster, Strategies for Optimizing Fit Testing for Residents and the Evolving Role of the Program Coordinator, about their work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure residents were wearing properly sized and fitted masks and respirators, even as supplies changed.

April 2021
L to R: Athena Gonzalez, Deann Ramirez, Vini Vijayan, MD, and Jolie A. Limon, MD presented their poster, Strategies for Optimizing Fit Testing for Residents and the Evolving Role of the Program Coordinator, at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Bree Bower

Bree Bower and her team in the anesthesiology and pain medicine department at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio studied the affects of COVID-19 on fellow recruitment and presented that work at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference in the Poster Hall.

April 2021
Bree Bower and her team in the anesthesiology and pain medicine department at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio studied the affects of COVID-19 on fellow recruitment and presented their work in the poster, Virtual Recruiting in Graduate Medical Education during COVID-19 at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Tina Simpson, MD, MPH and Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH

At the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Dr. Tina Simpson presented her team’s work in the poster, Implementing an Anti-Racism Workshop at an Academic University in the Deep South for Graduate Medical Education.

April 2021
Dr. Tina Simpson presented her team's work in the poster, Implementing an Anti-Racism Workshop at an Academic University in the Deep South for Graduate Medical Education, at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Andrew Bi, MD

Andrew Bi, MD and colleagues explored the roles of female leaders and highlighted the need for improvement at the leadership level in orthopaedics and presented their research in the poster Female Representation within Orthopaedic Leadership: Where Are We Now? at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference in late February.

March 2021
Andrew Bi, MD presented his team's work in their poster "Female Representation Within Orthopaedic Leadership: Where Are We Now?" at the 2021 Annual Educational Conference.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Rachel Ruderman, MD, MPH

Rachel Ruderman, MD, MPH and her colleagues created a tool to help infertility patients undergoing numerous tests in different departments and even different institutions keep better record of their care, reducing frustration for both patients and physicians.

March 2021
Rachel Ruderman, MD, MPH presented her team's work in their poster "Fertility Passport Program: Development of a Fertility Program in a Low-Resource Setting" at the 2021 Annual Educational Conference.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Lorene Cudjoe

Lorene Cudjoe's poster, Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Graduate Medical Education through Mentorship, presented at #ACGME2021, highlights a program designed to pair volunteer mentors with medical students preparing for the Match, for a look into how mentorship could help students identifying as racial or ethnic minorities match more successfully into their specialty of choice.

March 2021
Lorene Cudjoe, co-author of the research presented in the poster "Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Graduate Medical Education through Mentorship"

#ACGME2021 Session Summaries: JGME Unravels the Mysteries of the Manuscript Review and Editorial Process

Two popular sessions at the Annual Educational Conference, both presented by JGME Editors, shared tips on how to successfully prepare and submit for publication, and reviewed editors' top picks from other journals in 2020.

March 2021

Journal of Graduate Medical Education now open to all

In support of its mission to improve health care through graduate medical education (GME), the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) is completely open access as of February 2021. 
February 2021

ACGME Releases Pursuing Excellence Pathway Leaders Patient Safety Collaborative Report

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) recently released its summary report of the Pursuing Excellence in Clinical Learning Environments (Pursuing Excellence) Pathway Leaders Patient Safety Collaborative.

November 2020