Read a Letter to the Community from ACGME President and Chief Executive Office Dr. Thomas J. Nasca; register for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions meeting in September; take a survey to help the ACGME improve its continuing education offerings and more.

This week's e-Communication includes the Call for Abstracts for the ACGME Annual Educational Conference; the Journal of Graduate Medical Education's Call for New Ideas, and more.

This week's email includes: the deadline for the 2024 Annual Educational Conference Call for Sessions; the registration for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions meeting; a variety of offices hours and new calls for Review and Recognition Committee resident/fellow members.

This week's e-Communication includes deadlines for Review and Comment, Milestones 2.0 feedback, resident/fellow member nominations for Review Committees, 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.

“Milestones” has been a part of the ACGME vocabulary for nearly 17 years now. In the final session of the 2018 Annual Educational Conference, Eric Holmboe, MD, MACP, FRCP, senior vice president, Milestone Development and Evaluation, kicked off a discussion about the Milestones today and the Milestones to come.

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.

Jamie Arsenyevictz, MPH, led a team at Geisinger Health System to develop a GME analysis tool, leading to the development of shared language and knowledge surrounding GME finance and value between the GME Office and Geisinger leadership.

Jamie Dow, EdM, is assistant director for resident education and training at the University of Florida. Her poster, Mindfulness in Neurosurgery: Improving Neurosurgeon Wellness in Training and Beyond (with co-authors W. Christopher Fox, MD, Associate Program Director, University of Florida, and Gregory Murad, MD, Program Director, University of Florida), looked at wellness in neurosurgery, which Dow says “has traditionally been considered an oxymoron.” However, as priorities among neurological surgery residents evolve and the effects of physician burnout are increasingly recognized across specialties, life balance and overall well-being have become areas of emphasis and an opportunity for program improvement.