Dr. Lynne Kirk joined the ACGME staff in September 2019, following a 30-year career in internal medicine and geriatrics at UT Southwestern Medical Center. We recently asked Dr. Kirk to outline her goals as the ACGME’s first Chief Accreditation Officer.

New for 2023, Full-Day Courses on topics of interest to specific audiences (previously called "pre-conferences") are included in the conference registration fee!

Associate Program Director Kimberly Collins, MD of Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in Saint Petersburg, Florida set out to see how simulating conversations about social determinants of health (as opposed to in-class learning or immersion-based training) affected a resident’s or fellow’s ability to broach and explore these complex, often sensitive, subjects with patients and their parents. Her results are recorded in her poster: Improving Resident Comfort with Discussing Social Determinants of Health through Simulation.

The ACGME welcomes Mary E. Klingensmith, MD as the Senior Vice President, Accreditation. Dr. Klingensmith will oversee the accreditation process and standards for ACGME-accredited residency and fellowship programs across the country.

The ACGME is proud to announce the release of the latest edition of its annual Data Resource Book. This comprehensive resource provides the graduate medical education (GME) community and the public with the latest GME data covering the period from July 1, 2023 to June 30, 2024.

This week's e-Communication includes information on the 2022 Annual Educational Conference, the upcoming Back to Bedside deadline, Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) articles, and new program requirements available for review and comment.

This second report provides insight into changing clinical learning environments, and shows improvements in resident and fellow engagement in patient safety. The first report was released in 2016.

2023 John C. Gienapp Awardee Dr. Elias Traboulsi works at the Cleveland Clinic in many roles, including program director for the fellowship in pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus.