A Q and A with Jessica Lichter, MD, one of two recipients of the 2025-2027 Jeremiah A. Barondess Fellowship in the Clinical Transaction, which the ACGME presents jointly with the New York Academy of Medicine.

This edition of the weekly e-Communication includes information on rural data enhancement (RDE) project office hours; the deadline for CLER visit blackout dates; the Call for Submissions for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions meeting; and Review and Comment.

Anita Akbar Ali, MD’s poster, Child Abuse Curriculum for Anesthesiology Residents, presented at the 2020 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, reports on the knowledge, attitude, confidence, and commitment residents had about reporting child abuse before and after participating in the curriculum.

ACGME Vice President, International Outreach joins 13 medical education researchers honored at biennial event at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

Jessica Koran-Scholl, PhD and colleagues presented their work on the impact an obesity bias awareness workshop has on how physicians understand this phenomenon in the Poster Hall at the 2022 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, which was held virtually March 30-April 1, 2022.

2022 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Amit R.T. Joshi, MD, FACS is a professor of surgery and the associate dean for GME at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Cooper University Healthcare in Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Joshi is also the editor-in-chief of the Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE®). 

In the wake of the devastating events in Orlando on June 12, the ACGME grieves with the people of Orlando and across the United States. We mourn the injury and loss of life.

As September is National Suicide Prevention Month, the ACGME is taking the opportunity to reiterate its commitment to supporting mental health and well-being.