CONFERENCE IS THIS WEEK
Onsite Registration Available
ACGME Annual Educational Conference Job Board
This excellent resource features a variety of open positions in GME, including roles for program directors and faculty members. The Job Board will remain active through March 31, 2025. Browse Current Job Listings
Email questions to conferencejobboard@acgme.org.
NEW! Review and Comment: Proposed Program Requirements
The following Program Requirements and accompanying Impact Statements are posted for review and comment, here:
NEW! Comment Deadline: May 1, 2025
Emergency Medicine
A document outlining the proposed revisions to the Defined Key Index Procedure Minimums for Emergency Medicine is available for reference on the Documents and Resources page of the Emergency Medicine section of the website.
NEW! Comment Deadline: April 2, 2025
Vascular Surgery
NEW! ACGME Cloud: Learn More at #ACGME2025
In preparation for the upcoming launch of ACGME Cloud next month, visit the ACGME Cloud pre-launch information hub for the latest updates, including details about how to engage with and learn more about ACGME Cloud at the 2025 Annual Educational Conference.
Learn more at acgmecloud.org.
THURSDAY! Clinician Educator Journal Club
The ACGME's Clinician Educator Journal Club is a monthly online meeting on the third Thursday of each month gathering together current and future clinician educators, authors, and ACGME staff members to discuss journal articles and timely topics in medical education. Participants should read the article ahead of time and come with questions.
Next Session: Thursday, February 20, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Central
Article: Enriching Resident Engagement During Whiteboard Mini-Talks
Speakers: Ryan E. Nelson, MD
Once registered, add acgme@theonlinexpo.com as an allowed email to receive monthly updates and journal club meeting reminders; skipping this step may result in missing important information. Note: This address does not receive emails.
Send registration questions to virtualevents@acgme.org.
Join the Clinician Educator Club
SATURDAY! MUA/P Interest Group Will Meet in Person at #ACGME2025
The ACGME hosts a monthly virtual interest group session for GME community members involved in addressing the needs of MUA/Ps, which are places or communities with groups of people who have unmet health or health care needs.
During the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, an in-person meeting of the interest group will take place.
Session: February 22, 2025 at 7:00 a.m. Central
RSVP: Email muap@acgme.org to sign up. Space is limited to 50 participants. Participants must also be registered for the conference to attend. Breakfast will be provided.
The meetings will continue in their virtual format in March. These one-hour Zoom calls will take place on the third Tuesday of each month at 1:00 p.m. Central and are open to the entire GME community.
Session: March 18 at 1:00 p.m. Central
Topic: Place-Based Training in Rural and Underserved GME: How to Measure Where Residents Are Training
Register for the March Virtual Session
Take a Survey About Milestones 2.0
The ACGME, in collaboration with Dr. Laura E. Hirshfield, PhD, at University of Illinois Chicago, is soliciting the GME community’s perspectives and experiences regarding the implementation and use of Milestones 2.0 to inform the next iteration of the program. An email with a detailed description of the survey was sent January 30 and can be read here: Your Opinion Matters! Take Our Milestones 2.0 Survey
Only aggregated summary results will be shared with the ACGME. By keeping the survey anonymous, the ACGME strongly encourages honest feedback to improve the Milestones framework to better serve the GME community and its learners. The survey should take about 15 minutes to complete; submit answers by Sunday, March 30, 2025.
Direct questions to milestones@acgme.org or Dr. Hirshfield at lhirshf@uic.edu.
2026 ACGME Awards
The ACGME is accepting nominations for the 2026 ACGME Awards, which showcase the extraordinary contributions, diversity, and strengths of the GME community.
Applications for the awards are available in the Awards section of the website. Nominations are due March 12, 2025.
Nuclear Medicine Program Directors Sought for Interviews
The Review Committee will soon begin work on the 10-year major revision of the Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Nuclear Medicine. To inform this revision, activities planned include a literature review; one-on-one interviews with members of key stakeholder groups; development and administration of a survey on key issues relevant to nuclear medicine education; and a stakeholder summit to be held in 2025.
As this work begins, the ACGME seeks 10 current nuclear medicine program directors to participate in one-on-one, one-hour interviews to provide their perspectives on the future of nuclear medicine residency education. Interested program directors should complete this form.
Email questions to AST@acgme.org.
Seeking Program Directors for Interviews
The Transitional Year Review Committee will soon begin work on the 10-year major revision of the Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Transitional Year. To inform this next set of Program Requirements, a series of activities designed to gather relevant information is planned, including a literature review; a series of one-on-one interviews with members of key stakeholder groups; development and administration of a survey on key issues relevant to transitional year education; and a stakeholder summit to be held in October 2025.
The ACGME seeks current transitional year program directors and program directors in specialties that require a fundamental clinical skill year who are interested in participating in a one-on-one, one-hour interview to provide their perspective on the future of transitional year residency education and/or those interested in participating in the Transitional Year Stakeholder Summit, scheduled to take place in person in Chicago on Friday, October 3, 2025.
Interested program directors should complete this form.
Email questions to AST@acgme.org.
NEW! Faculty Development Hub Courses
In addition to offering the Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment course in Chicago, the ACGME collaborates with institutions and organizations in the US and abroad to offer scaled, tailored versions of the course. See below for open courses and visit the Faculty Development web page for more information.
- Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (virtual)
- Mountain Area Health Education Center (in person: Asheville, North Carolina)
- Pacific Northwest Consortium (in person: Portland, Oregon)
- University of California at Los Angeles (in person: Los Angeles, California)
DEADLINE APPROACHING! Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment
Leadership Skills Training Program for Chief Residents
The Leadership Skills Training Program for Chief Residents is designed to provide a transitional experience into the role of chief resident. The program introduces leadership concepts to enhance individual effectiveness in a leadership role. The program is three full days and is open to chief residents from all medical and surgical specialties. Nine sessions will be offered in Chicago in 2025:
- March 24-26
- April 7-9
- April 13-15
- April 16-18
- April 28-30
- May 5-7
- May 8-10
- May 19-21
- May 28-30
Email questions to Bethanie Alden, MPA.
JGME Articles of the Week
Feasibility and Acceptability of a Virtual Reality Curriculum to Support Firearm Safety Counseling Skills Among Pediatric Residents
Francis J. Real, MD, MEd; Cornelia Griggs, MD; Michelle March, MD, MPH, MEd; Peter T. Masiakos, MD; Andrea Meisman, MA; Gretchen Felopulos, PhD; Chana A. Sacks, MD, MPH; Matthew W. Zackoff, MD, MEd
Firearm-related injury is the leading cause of death among US children and adolescents, yet residents across specialties report low preparedness to provide firearm safety counseling. In this study, authors collected feasibility and acceptability data to explore residents’ perceptions on a novel virtual reality curriculum to support their firearm safety counseling skills.
Adapting the Planetary Health Report Card for Graduate Medical Training Programs
Sarah Schear, MD, MS; Karly Hampshire, MD; Taylor Diedrich, MD; Isabel Waters, MB BCh, BAO; Aisha Barber, MD, MEd
Medical students created the Planetary Health Report Card to evaluate and spur climate action in medical schools. Residents and fellows lack a similar tool to evaluate and improve their Sponsoring Institutions and programs. The authors adapted the Planetary Health Report Card to GME contexts and report preliminary validity evidence.