This week's e-Communication includes information on the Resident/Fellow and Faculty Surveys, Review and Comment for program requirements, the Annual Educational Conference, and more.

Health provider shortage areas, comprised of urban and rural regions with high populations of people struggling with multi-morbidity and poverty, often have a challenge with physician recruitment. Dr. Meaghan Ruddy, vice president for Academic Affairs and director of Medical Education for The Wright Center for GME in Scranton, Pennsylvania, describes how a teaching health center family medicine program operationalized as a graduate medical education safety-net consortium.

Dr. Carol A. Bernstein is the 2019 winner of the John C. Gienapp Award and the first ever women to be honored with the award--on International Woman's Day to boot! Dr. Bernstein is Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology at New York University. She has spent her entire career engaged in the education and mentorship of the next generation of physicians in addition to maintaining a clinical practice in general psychiatry at the New York University School of Medicine.

Learn more about ACGME Cloud; participate in the Clinician Educator Journal Club; sign up for the Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment; and more.

Tiffany Moss, MBA is the ACGME’s Executive Director, Osteopathic Accreditation, overseeing the administration of and providing staff support to the Osteopathic Principles Committee and the Review Committee for Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine. At the 2018 Annual Educational Conference she presented or co-presented three sessions. We asked her to share her experience and tell us about herself and her role at the conference.

This week's edition of the e-Communication includes information on #ThankaResidentDay; the Annual Educational Conference; the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Forum; ACGME Award nominations, and more.

Learn about an award received by the ACGME in partnership with the Docs With Disabilities Initiative; register for a webinar about women with disabilities in medicine; comment on the Draft Foundational Comptencies for Undergraduate Medical Education; and more.

Friday is the last day to register online for the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; residents and fellows can apply for funding as part of the ACGME's Back to Bedside initiative and more.

Register for the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference before the price increases; nominate an institution for the Thomas J. Nasca Professionalism Award; access the Language Equity in Health Care Toolkit, and more.