Jamie Dow, EdM, is assistant director for resident education and training at the University of Florida. Her poster, Mindfulness in Neurosurgery: Improving Neurosurgeon Wellness in Training and Beyond (with co-authors W. Christopher Fox, MD, Associate Program Director, University of Florida, and Gregory Murad, MD, Program Director, University of Florida), looked at wellness in neurosurgery, which Dow says “has traditionally been considered an oxymoron.” However, as priorities among neurological surgery residents evolve and the effects of physician burnout are increasingly recognized across specialties, life balance and overall well-being have become areas of emphasis and an opportunity for program improvement.

2023 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Bethany Millar is the manager, education, for internal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.

Q and A with 2026 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Lisa R. Merlin, MD.

A summary of the Featured Plenary, "Developing a Sustainable Approach to Well-Being: Lessons from an Award-Winning Program," from #ACGME2026.

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

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME Courage to Teach Awardee Jennifer O'Toole, MD, MEd.

This week's e-Communication includes news on the Milestones program, ACGME Requirements available for Review and Comment, new subspecialty proposals, calls for resident and public members, and more.

Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Jennifer Wilson, BA, C-TAGME is the GME program administrator for family medicine at the University of Vermont (UVM) Medical Center. 

Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia will close inpatient and ancillary services by July 30, 2020. Eighteen residents will be displaced and the ACGME has opened ADS to aid with resident transfers.