This is the first post in a new series, Educating Educators, which will share information about and stories from ACGME faculty development efforts and courses.

A summary of one of four Featured Plenaries presented at the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Physician Workforce Shortage: How States Are Responding.

A Q and A with #ACGME2025 poster presenter Liza Marie Garcia, BSW, on her team's "Emotional Intelligence Workshop as a Preventative Approach to Reduce Resident Burnout."

A Q and A with Dr. Kathy Andolsek, as part of a series recognizing ACGME volunteers during National Volunteer Month.

A Q and A with Dr. John Patrick T. Co in a series recognizing ACGME volunteers during National Volunteer Month.

A Q and A with 2025 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Marcie Feinman, MD, MEHP, FACS.

The next post in the Partnerships to Establish and Sustain Rural GME series looks at the Central Washington family medicine residency program's rural participating site located in Ellensburg, Washington.

ACGME Chief of Staff and Chief Education Officer Timothy P. Brigham, MDiv, MS, PhD brought together two national leaders in medicine, Victor Dzau, MD, president of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, US Surgeon General, to discuss the work to develop the NAM National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being.

During a Featured Plenary at #ACGME2023 entitled Preparing Learners to Care for Patients and Communities Experiencing Substance Use Disorder, Charlene M. Dewey, MD, MEd, FACP, Stephen Loyd, MD, and Jeanette Tetrault, MD, FACP, FASAM discussed their unique experiences in treating and creating learning environments for physicians and other care practitioners to treat substance use disorder (SUD).

Dr. Eli Khazoum is the rising Chief Resident for the internal medicine residency program at Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Olympia Fields, Illinois. He attended the 2023 ACGME Annual Educational Conference in part to support his transition into the Chief Resident role. As a resident and first-time Annual Educational Conference attendee, we asked him to share his impressions.