Karen J. Nichols, DO, MA, MACOI, FACP, CS-F is the current Chair of the ACGME Board of Directors, having assumed this role in September 2020. We asked Dr. Nichols to talk about her professional experience, her role, and her experience with the ACGME’s first-ever virtual Annual Educational Conference.

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.

Twenty-six individuals and teams will be recognized for innovation in graduate medical education at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, which will be held online this year.

This week's e-Communication includes information on the 2021 Annual Educational Conference Call for Abstracts, aggregate reports available for the Resident/Fellow and Faculty Surveys, Review Committee nominations, and more.

This week's email includes the Annual Educational Conference Calls for Abstracts and Exhibits as well as opportunities to post on the conference's Job Board; registration for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions meeting; registration for the webinar on the Improving Assessment Using Direct Observation; and more.

2020 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Kimberly Brown, C-TAGME is the GME program coordinator for emergency medicine at Duke University Hospital.

On Friday, February 26, ACGME Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion leadership, Drs. William McDade and Bonnie Simpson Mason, joined California University of Science and Medicine Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Partnership Dr. Sunny Nakae to presented about how to work to reverse institutional trends of racism in medical education.

Sarah Meadows, EdD, FACEHP and Abraham Nussbaum, MD, MTS studied the effects of financial debt on resident burnout. and presented their work in the Poster Hall at the 2022 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, which was held virtually March 30-April 1, 2022.

In response to the recent resurgence of COVID-19, the ACGME sent a letter to both presidential nominees, urging them to commit to accelerating the production of personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect frontline health care workers, who include many members of the GME community.

This week's e-Communication includes information on office hours being held by the executive director for the Institutional Review Committee, the upcoming Annual Educational Conference, the ACGME Awards, revised Milestones that are now available, and more.