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.

A Q and A with Rola Hamam, MD about her team's poster from the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, “Impact of the Economic Crisis, COVID-19, and the Beirut Explosion on Ophthalmology Training in Lebanon.”

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.

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.

A review of opportunities to learn more about ACGME accreditation at the 2026 Annual Educational Conference.

Debra L. Dooley came to the ACGME 22 years ago, initially in an administrative role with the Review Committee for Internal Medicine. She retires today, after 10.5 years as the Director of Educational Activities, where she leads the team responsible for producing the ACGME’s educational programming, and most notably the Annual Educational Conference. We spent some time with her before she left, discussing her career, her mentors, her legacy, and the renaming of the Debra L. Dooley Program Coordinator Excellence Award.