For more than two years, the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed how every person on the globe works, plays, and interacts with each other. As what many hoped would be a few weeks of fear and uncertainty stretched into months and months, no one felt this stress more than health care professionals on the frontlines.

The ACGME is pleased to announce the 2023 Annual Educational Conference Closing Plenary, a conversation on the future of graduate medical education with Drs. Thomas J. Nasca and Debra Weinstein.

The ACGME looks forward to welcoming international attendees to the ACGME 2023 Annual Educational Conference.

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.

2022 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Skyler Kiddy, MS, works as the program coordinator for the pediatrics program at the Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences and Osteopathic Medical Education Consortium of Oklahoma. 

The #ACGME2025 Program Guide is now available; review and comment on the Institutional Requirements; a new obstetrics and gynecology pilot; a new resource for overcoming barriers to mental health care; and more.

This week's e-Communication includes the names of the 2024-2025 Back to Bedside grant recipients; Review and Comment; Accreditation Data System (ADS) updates; and more.

This week's e-Communication includes information about the Early Bird pricing deadline for the Annual Educational Conference, upcoming opportunities to speak with ACGME staff members about Recognition of Non-Standard Training Programs for physicians with J-1 visas, and more.

Create a single sign-on username and password for ACGME Cloud; submit blackout weeks for Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) visits; apply to participate on an Appeals Panel.