Register for the 2025 Renewal retreat; create a single sign-on account for ACGME Cloud products; register for a course or workshop; and more.

“Milestones” has been a part of the ACGME vocabulary for nearly 17 years now. In the final session of the 2018 Annual Educational Conference, Eric Holmboe, MD, MACP, FRCP, senior vice president, Milestone Development and Evaluation, kicked off a discussion about the Milestones today and the Milestones to come.

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.

This edition of the e-Communication includes the call for nominations for the 2025 ACGME Awards; Review and Comment opportunities, and more.

Review proposed Program Requirements and a proposed new subspecialty; participate in the first meeting of the Clinician Educator's Journal Club; read the latest CLER Pathways to Excellence; and more.

View the full schedule for the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; read the 2023 Milestones National Report; learn how to join the 2024-2025 ACGME Equity Matters^TM Learning Community; and more.

Learn more about the Call for Abstracts, which opens August 19; give feedback on the Milestones; and become an Appeals Panel member.

This week's e-Communication includes Special-Specific Program Requirements available for Review and Comment; information on next week's well-being event for program directors; and resident and fellow Review Committee Member openings with terms beginning July 1, 2024.