This week's e-Communication includes information on the 2021 Annual Educational Conference, new materials available in Learn at ACGME, a JGME call for articles on topics relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and more. 

This week's e-Communication includes the Call for Exhibitors for the ACGME Annual Educational Conference, actions taken at the September ACGME Board of Directors meeting, and more.

This edition of the e-Communication includes information on the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, resources on personal protective equipment (PPE) for Sponsoring Institutions and programs, Review and Recognition Committee announcements and more.

This week's e-Communication includes information on the ACGME Annual Educational Conference speakers, the Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program's webcasts about upcoming COVID-19 site visits, Review and Comment, and more.

2022 David C. Leach Awardee Jeremy Weleff, DO is a psychiatry resident at the Cleveland Clinic. 

The Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) has long enjoyed a presence at the ACGME Annual Educational Conference with great sessions and workshops. This year’s JGME workshop is called Turning Your Educational Evaluation Work into a Scholarly Activity. 

Debra L. Dooley came to the ACGME 22 years ago, initially in an administrative role with the Review Committee for Internal Medicine. She retires today, after 10.5 years as the Director of Educational Activities, where she leads the team responsible for producing the ACGME’s educational programming, and most notably the Annual Educational Conference. We spent some time with her before she left, discussing her career, her mentors, her legacy, and the renaming of the Debra L. Dooley Program Coordinator Excellence Award.

With overdose as the leading cause of death for Americans under 50, it is imperative that the nation—including the entire medical community—take responsibility for its role in creating this epidemic and identify and enact strategies that can address it. This is Dr. Leana Wen’s position. The former Baltimore Health Commissioner and current president of Planned Parenthood spoke about the steps she and the City of Baltimore took to address opioid addiction in the community, and what role she sees physicians playing in solving this problem that is devastating the nation.