This week's e-Communication includes information on the ACGME Rural Track Program Designation Type 2, the National Academy of Medicine's National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being, open positions on Review Committees, and more.

Read about the ACGME's Medically Underserved Areas/Populations and GME efforts, and how to learn more and connect with staff members at the 2022 Annual Educational Conference and beyond.

2022 John C. Gienapp Awardee Kenneth M. Ludmerer, MD, MACP is Mabel Dorn Reeder Distinguished Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. He is an internist.

2022 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Awardee Ted Epperly, MD is the designated institutional official at Full Circle Health in Boise, Idaho.

2022 David C. Leach Awardee Jeremy Weleff, DO is a psychiatry resident at the Cleveland Clinic. 

Reflecting on some of the challenges of delivering faculty development trainings to already busy and time-constricted faculty members, Colleen Kalynych, EdD and colleagues from the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville developed a knowledge- and skills-based, time-sensitive, and practical program disseminated via email.

Dr. Natasha Bray and colleagues explored how completing a residency in underserved areas affects independent practice location choice in a continuation and expansion of a previous study.

This year, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) is encouraging authors to create visual abstracts for accepted articles and providing resources to help.

View the full session schedule for the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; apply to become an Appeals Panels member; listen to the latest episode of the Hot Topics in MedEd podcast; and more.

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.