A powerful statement and call to action for the graduate medical education (GME) community was delivered by ACGME President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP in his President’s Plenary on Thursday, March 31, 2022, the kick-off for the virtual ACGME Annual Educational Conference.

Read about the ACGME's Medically Underserved Areas/Populations and GME efforts, and how to learn more and connect with staff members at the 2022 Annual Educational Conference and beyond.

2022 John C. Gienapp Awardee Kenneth M. Ludmerer, MD, MACP is Mabel Dorn Reeder Distinguished Professor of Medicine and the History of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. He is an internist.

2022 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Awardee Ted Epperly, MD is the designated institutional official at Full Circle Health in Boise, Idaho.

Reflecting on some of the challenges of delivering faculty development trainings to already busy and time-constricted faculty members, Colleen Kalynych, EdD and colleagues from the University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville developed a knowledge- and skills-based, time-sensitive, and practical program disseminated via email.

This week's edition of the e-Communication includes how to join a discussion forum on revising competencies for undergraduate medical education, updated FAQs related to the Common Program Requirements, registration for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions meeting, and more.

This week's edition includes information about the Annual Educational Conference Call for Abstracts, the Shaping GME process for general surgery, registration for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions Meeting, and more.

This week's e-Communication includes information on a new ACGME Equity Matters toolkit, an invitation to participate in an event honoring the 2021 Vilcek-Gold Award for Humanism in Healthcare recipients, and more.

This edition of the e-Communication features a request for feedback from the obstetrics and gynecology GME community, Journal of Graduate Medical Education articles of the week, information on the DEI Officers Forum and more. 

The next post in the Partnerships to Establish and Sustain Rural GME series looks at the University of Minnesota General Surgery Rural Track.