This week's edition of the e-Communication includes details on the Annual Educational Conference, the latest CLER National Report of Findings, and more.

The ACGME is excited to bring the Mentor/Mentee Program back to the Annual Educational Conference!

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.”

2020 David C. Leach Awardee Dr. Andrew Vivas is currently an assistant attending and adult and pediatric spinal deformity fellow at Columbia University, and was formerly a neurological surgery resident at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

Networking opportunities abound each day of the conference. Here’s a quick snapshot of some of what’s planned.

An overview of the forthcoming 2026 ACGME Annual Educational Conference for prospective international attendees.

Each year, the Annual Educational Conference is the venue for great community gathering, information and idea sharing, networking, inspiration, and more. It’s also where we celebrate the ACGME – and now ACGME International – awardees.

2020 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Donald L. Gilbert, MD, MS is the residency program director for child neurology at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

At the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Athena Gonzalez and her team presented their poster, Strategies for Optimizing Fit Testing for Residents and the Evolving Role of the Program Coordinator, about their work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure residents were wearing properly sized and fitted masks and respirators, even as supplies changed.