Advancing the ACGME Mission by working with global entities to enhance the quality of resident and fellow physicians’ education.

2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Wilma F. Bergfeld, is the director of the dermatopathology fellowship, a senior dermatologist, and emeritus director, dermatopathology in the departments of dermatology and pathology at the Cleveland Clinic.

Q and A with Dr. Anne Messman of Wayne State University School of Medicine, whose dermatology residency program is the 2026 ACGME Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Award recipient.

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.

Drs. Lyuba Konopasek, Stuart Slavin, and Timothy Brigham walked participants through the ACGME-developed guidebook, “Well-Being in the Time of COVID-19,” and explored how the ideas within it could be implemented in graduate medical education in their 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference session.

This is one in a series of project profiles of the ACGME’s Back to Bedside initiative, which empowers residents and fellows to develop innovations that foster meaning and joy in work and engage their patients on a deeper level.

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.

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. 

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME Courage to Teach Award winner Eric Hsieh, MD, FACP.