This week's e-Communication includes information on this week's Annual Educational Conference, the ACGME Award nominations for 2024, the latest episode of "Hot Topics in MedEd" and more.

This week's e-Communication includes information about the Call for Sessions for the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; open nominations for public and resident/fellow Review Committee members; and open Review and Comment periods.

2020 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Abby Lyn Spencer, MD, MS, FACP is director for the internal medicine residency program at the Cleveland Clinic.

2020 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Robyn Blair, MD is the program director for pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook Children's Hospital.

This edition of the ACGME e-Communication includes a Letter to the Community, a video message from Dr. Nasca to residents and fellows finishing their programs this spring, information on the ACGME's new Diversity and Inclusion Award, and more.

In the first post for our new series, Journal Notes, read about how the staff and editors of the Journal of Graduate Medical Education adjusted their editorial plan to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic for the June 2020 issue.

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.

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.

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. 

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.