For more than two years, the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed how every person on the globe works, plays, and interacts with each other. As what many hoped would be a few weeks of fear and uncertainty stretched into months and months, no one felt this stress more than health care professionals on the frontlines.

Part of the ongoing ACGME Answers series, this post aims to clarify confusion regarding the ACGME's requirements for leaves of absence.

Register for the 2026 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; participate in Review and Comment; read the JGME Articles of the Week.

Register for the 2024 National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions and Clinical Learning Environments Meeting; submit an abstract proposal for the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; and more.

Submit a research proposal for the Call for Abstracts; registser for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions and Clinical Learning Environments meeting; and participate in Review and Comment.

This post in our Resources to Support GME series focuses on ACGME tools, educational opportunities, and resources for institutional and program coordinators.

Thirty proposals were selected for their ability to enhance the resident/fellow-patient connection, and foster joy and meaning in work. A total of $130,000 at different funding levels will be awarded, renewable up to two years.

This week's e-Communication includes information on the final public forum about revising foundational competencies for undergraduate medical education, submitting New Ideas to the Journal of Graduate Medical Education, the 2022 Milestones National Report, and more.

Q and A with 2026 ACGME David C. Leach Awardee Brannan O'Neill, MD.