This week's e-Communication includes details about the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference Call for Topics, the approaching deadline for the 2024 ACGME Awards, and more. 

The member organizations of the Coalition for Physician Accountability have released the following statement in support of strengthened efforts that must be in place to safeguard the public, and to protect our nation’s health care workforce.

The FIRST trial and the iCOMPARE trial will provide much-needed data on the effects of duty hour regulations.

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

Physician educators must explore ways to teach physicians to practice with excellence, compassion, and justice, Dr. Arno K. Kumagai argued at the most recent Baldwin Seminar, the first of the 2019-2020 season. His talk, Reflection, Dialogue and Different Ways of Knowing: Beyond the Competency Paradigm in Medical Education, took place June 26 at the ACGME offices in Chicago, and was livestreamed.

If you’re joining us in San Diego for the Annual Educational Conference next week, here’s a quick list of tips and information you’ll want to know before you get there! See you soon!

The next post in the ACGME and Global Health series addresses the vital role of post-graduate medical education (PGME) in the global health workforce.

2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Julie B. McCausland, MD, MS is the program director for the transitional year program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Medical Education in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She specializes in emergency medicine.