This week's e-Communication includes information on the ACGME's position on personal protective equipment during the pandemic, a webinar on assessing residents and fellows, the opening of registration for the ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Review Committee information from multiple specialties, and more.

This week's e-Communication includes the opening of registration for the ACGME Annual Educational Conference, actions taken at the September ACGME Board of Directors meeting, Review Committee information from multiple specialties, and more.

This week's e-Communication includes inforamtion on the new Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) Advisory Group, revised Milestones, Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program blackout dates, and more.

This week's e-Communication features registration for the Basics of Accreditation Workshop for New Coordinators and Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment, featured articles from the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME), and more.

2022 GME Institutional Coordinator Award Linda Ortiz Morrison, CHCP, is the senior director, academic affairs and institutional coordinator at Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center. 

Recognizing the high rates of psychological distress of various forms for residents in training, Dr. Gregory Guldner and colleagues sought to learn whether an opt out approach would increase the number of residents who actually engaged with available therapy options.

The ACGME has issued an updated statement that supercedes all other guidance regarding early graduation from US allopathic and osteopathic medical schools and early appointment to the clinical learning environment.

Since the publication of this article, the ACGME has created a section of its website dedicated to the ACGME’s response to this pandemic crisis. Visit this section for the most up-to-date guidance on ACGME activities during this time.

A US bankruptcy court approved a settlement today with Hahnemann University Hospital’s (HUH) owner to pay for the professional liability tail insurance for the more than 500 residents and fellows displaced by the hospital closure last year.