This week's e-Communication includes information from the Coalition for Physician Accountability, the final call for nominations for the 2022 ACGME Awards, details how to access 2021 Annual Educational Conference materials through June 1, and more. 

This week's edition includes details on a Letter to the Community from ACGME President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP regarding feedback gathered at listening sessions regarding ACGME processes during the COVID-19 pandemic; information on the Annual Educational Conference; updates to the ACGME's Physician Well-Being section of the website, and Review and Comment of Milestones 2.0 and ACGME Specialty-Specific Requirements.

Two areas where the GME community is seeking additional guidance and clarification from the ACGME are telemedicine and the ACGME Resident/Fellow and Faculty Surveys. Here we provide further explanation on these two topics.

2020 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Abby Lyn Spencer, MD, MS, FACP is director for the internal medicine residency program at the Cleveland Clinic.

2020 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Robyn Blair, MD is the program director for pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook Children's Hospital.

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 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.

April 18-24 is National Volunteer Week and the ACGME would like to recognize and thank the hundreds of volunteers who offer their time and expertise to further the mission of the ACGME.

Submit a proposal to present at #ACGME2026; participate in Review and Comment; nominate a resident or fellow to serve on a Review or Recognition Committee; and more.

Learn about the ACGME Cloud | Analytics – Analytics Explorer tool; participate in ACGME LINC; answer a survey about the major revision of the Common Program Requirements; and more.