The ACGME provides an update on the comprehensive review and revision of the Common Program Requirements.

ACGME staff members continue to assist residents/fellows displaced by the closure of Hahnemann University Hospital by compiling and disseminating a list of available positions at other institutions, per the ACGME Extraordinary Circumstances Policy.

Learn how to submit an abstract proposal for the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; view a Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program workshop recording; participate in the Review and Comment process for many specialties and subspecialties, and more. 

2023 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. Deborah Chute is the program director for pathology at Cleveland Clinic.

Health provider shortage areas, comprised of urban and rural regions with high populations of people struggling with multi-morbidity and poverty, often have a challenge with physician recruitment. Dr. Meaghan Ruddy, vice president for Academic Affairs and director of Medical Education for The Wright Center for GME in Scranton, Pennsylvania, describes how a teaching health center family medicine program operationalized as a graduate medical education safety-net consortium.

A Q and A with Edgardo Ordonez, MD, MPH, director, Health Equity and Community Engagement at the Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine; the emergency medicine program is a 2024 ACGME Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award winner.

In the poster, “Online Well-Being Group Coaching Program for Physicians: Two Randomized Control Trials,” Tyra Fainstad, MD and her team describe two studies that looked to explore the impact of well-being group coaching on physicians and physician learners.

2020 ACGME Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Diana Lynn Brucha, C-TAGME is the program manager for obstetrics and gynecology at UPMC Medical Education, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This week's e-Communication includes information on the 2022 Annual Educational Conference, Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) articles, ACGME program requirements available for review and comment, and more.