This week's e-Communication includes Special-Specific Program Requirements available for Review and Comment; information on next week's well-being event for program directors; and resident and fellow Review Committee Member openings with terms beginning July 1, 2024.

This week's e-Communication includes the deadline extension for the Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award, requirements available for Review and Comment, public member openings on Review Committees and more. 

This week's e-Communication includes information on the wrap-up of the 2023 Annual Educational Conference; details on the Call for Topics for next year's event; 2024 ACGME Awards details; Review and Comment; and more.

Register for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions Meeting taking place this week; read about changes to how Letters of Notification and Site Visit Announcement letters are distributed; and participate in the Review and Comment process.

This week's edition includes approaching deadlines for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions meeting's Call for Submissions, the Annual Educational Conference's Calls for Sessions, and the Milestones Year-End Reporting Window.

Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia will close inpatient and ancillary services by July 30, 2020. Eighteen residents will be displaced and the ACGME has opened ADS to aid with resident transfers. 

The AOA and ACGME are providing this statement of joint principles to help clarify for residents/fellows and programs the issues related to board certification that have arisen through the circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Coalition for Physician Accountability, of which the ACGME is a member, released a report and recommendations on learner transitions from medical school into residency programs in 2020.

The ACGME has updated its Procedures for Alleged Egregious Events to address how it will rapidly respond to alleged non-compliance with the four prevailing COVID-19 priority requirements, including the addition of a public sanction.