The ACGME is pleased to announce the 2023 Annual Educational Conference Closing Plenary, a conversation on the future of graduate medical education with Drs. Thomas J. Nasca and Debra Weinstein.

Glocalization impacts the health care and health care education sectors in numerous ways, each with assorted benefits and challenges.

The ACGME looks forward to welcoming international attendees to the ACGME 2023 Annual Educational Conference.

For more than two years, the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed how every person on the globe works, plays, and interacts with each other. As what many hoped would be a few weeks of fear and uncertainty stretched into months and months, no one felt this stress more than health care professionals on the frontlines.

2022 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Skyler Kiddy, MS, works as the program coordinator for the pediatrics program at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences and Osteopathic Medical Education Consortium of Oklahoma. 

2022 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. Heather L. Burrows is the program director for pediatrics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

2022 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. Michael Aylward is the program director for the internal medicine-pediatrics program at the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis.

2022 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Nicole Paradise Black, MD, MEd is a professor of pediatrics, the associate chair of pediatrics education, and the program director for pediatrics at University of Florida Health’s Shands Children’s Hospital. 

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.

This week's e-Communication includes information on the ACGME's latest guidance regarding accreditation, Sponsoring Institution Emergency Category status, and COVID-10; the 2021 Annual Educational Conference; Review and Comment, participation opportunities in the Milestones 2.0 program, and more.