Associate Program Director Kimberly Collins, MD of Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in Saint Petersburg, Florida set out to see how simulating conversations about social determinants of health (as opposed to in-class learning or immersion-based training) affected a resident’s or fellow’s ability to broach and explore these complex, often sensitive, subjects with patients and their parents. Her results are recorded in her poster: Improving Resident Comfort with Discussing Social Determinants of Health through Simulation.

Jamie Arsenyevictz, MPH, led a team at Geisinger Health System to develop a GME analysis tool, leading to the development of shared language and knowledge surrounding GME finance and value between the GME Office and Geisinger leadership.

For the first time since 2012, the ACGME today presented the John C. Gienapp Distinguished Service Award to Timothy C. Flynn, MD, FACS. The award is named for Dr. John Gienapp, who was the ACGME’s Executive Director for 19 years. Dr. Gienapp made several important contributions to GME and ACGME accreditation, and when he retired this award was established in his honor to recognize those who, like himself, dedicated themselves to a career in graduate medical education and made outstanding contributions to residency education and ACGME activities in a variety of ways.

2021 David C. Leach Awardee Bryce Montané, MD is a third-year resident in internal medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

The next post in the Partnerships to Establish and Sustain Rural GME series features an interview with Marianna Worczak, MD, from Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital.

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME GME Institutional Coordinator Excellence Awardee Krista Lombardo-Klefos, MBA.

ACGME Global Services spoke with Sawsan Abdel-Razig, MD, MEHP about the concept of the local view of "glocalization" in Abu Dhabi.

A Q and A with 2024 Lewis Blackman Patient Safety Award winner Elaine M. Griffeth, MD.

This first post in a new series focuses on resources provided by the ACGME on its website and distance learning platform for residents and fellows.

A Q and A with Abigail Garbarino, MD about her team's poster from the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, “The Postpartum Polaroid Project: A Mixed-Methods Study Evaluating Resident Use of Polaroid Photos as an Intervention for Mindfulness in Obstetrics.”