This is one in a series of project profiles of the ACGME’s Back to Bedside initiative, which empowers residents and fellows to develop innovations that foster meaning and joy in work and engage their patients on a deeper level.

2020 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Edwin L. Zalneraitis, MD is the pediatric residency program director at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.

2020 David C. Leach Awardee Dr. Andrew Vivas is currently an assistant attending and adult and pediatric spinal deformity fellow at Columbia University, and was formerly a neurological surgery resident at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

It's just a month until the 2020 ACGME Annual Educational Conference - learn more about the new Mentor-Mentee Program that will give attendees a unique opportunity to build and grow connections!

This edition of the ACGME e-Communication includes information about the Annual Educational Conference Call for Abstracts, calls for nominations for a variety of Review Committees, and more. 

The “Fostering Meaning and Connections through Storytelling and Written Reflection” session at the 2022 ACGME Annual Educational Conference discussed the concept and benefits of narrative medicine. 

This week's e-Communication includes the Call for Abstracts for the 2023 Annual Educational Conference, a survey to assist the Milestones program with quality assurance, ACGME Case Log System updates for some specialties and subspecialties, and more.

This week's e-Communication includes a Letter to the Community from ACGME President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP; Review and Comment; Review Committee news, and more.

This week's e-Communication features registration for the Basics of Accreditation Workshop for New Coordinators and Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment, featured articles from the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME), and more.

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.