Featured in this e-Communication is information on the new preventive medicine specialties, resident member nominations for a variety of Review Committees, registration for a institutional coordinator workshop, and more.

Learn about the 2026 ACGME Annual Educational Conference Keynote speakers; submit a work of art for Arts and Humanities in Medicine; apply to sit on an ACGME Appeal Panel.

Submit a performance for Arts and Humanities in Medicine at #ACGME2026; access the new patient safety toolkit in Learn at ACGME; and learn about the ACGME's upcoming nutrition task force. 

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.

The next post in the Partnerships to Establish and Sustain Rural GME series features an interview with Randy Longenecker, MD, from Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine.

2022 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. Sachin Kedar is a professor of ophthalmology and neurology and the vice chair for education at the Emory University School of Medicine. Dr. Kedar specializes in neuro-ophthalmology.

Results from a new national survey published on the New England Journal of Medicine website* ahead of print reveal that half of US general surgery residents, especially women, experience workplace mistreatment at least a few times per year.

The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) announced that ACGME President and CEO Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP has been named co-lead of the NAM Action Collaborative on Countering the US Opioid Epidemic health professional education and training working group.