A Q and A with Shyam Sundaresh, MD, one of two recipients of the 2025-2027 Jeremiah A. Barondess Fellowship in the Clinical Transaction, which the ACGME presents jointly with the New York Academy of Medicine.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and this month the ACGME will shine a spotlight on resources for enhancing the well-being of all in the GME community.

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME Courage to Teach Awardee Jennifer O'Toole, MD, MEd.

Register for #ACGME2026; participate in Review and Comment; and read the Journal of Graduate Medical Education's Articles of the Week.

Register for the 2026 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; participate in the Clinician Educator Journal Club; attend the January ACGME LINC session; and more.

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.

If you were working in GME back in the 80s, maybe you attended one of the ACGME’s early forerunners of the Annual Educational Conference.

In one of the final sessions at the 2018 Annual Educational Conference on Sunday, March 4, a panel of ACGME executives, deans, a patient safety expert, and a resident spoke to the crowd about how medicine is changing and graduate medical education may need to evolve to serve patients well into the 21^st century.

ACGME President and CEO Dr. Nasca kicked off his Saturday morning session at the Annual Educational Conference with some “non-rhetorical” questions: Can anyone predict what the health care system will look like in 2035? Can anyone predict how long your residents will practice? 40 years?

After stumping the room, he went on to explain that it is our job is to prepare residents to practice in the future—not to arm them with practices, skills, and knowledge of the present. We want our residents to be prepared not just for 2018 but for 2035—and beyond.

The 2019 ACGME Annual Educational Conference offers so many great educational opportunities that it can be hard to know which sessions to choose. One “must-attend” plenary session focuses on the critically important topic of physician well-being.