In 2016, a Castlight Health report named Wilmington, North Carolina, the city with the highest abuse opioid abuse rate in the US. In response, Joseph Pino, MD, MHA, and members of the community sought to safely reduce the number of opioids prescribed, increase adherence to best practices in opioid prescribing, and reduce emergency department visits due to opioid overdose. His poster, presented at the 2019 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, reports the outcome of these multiple initiatives.

ACGME Manager, Employee Communications Emily Vasiliou wrote about her experience attending the ACGME's annual Awards Retreat for recipients of the Courage to Lead and Courage to Teach Awards for the first time in 10 years.

Lauren Wojnarowski, MA is the ACGME's Associate Director, Educational Projects, working in the Education Department's Educational Activities team. She is one of the planners of the Annual Educational Conference, and her team's role is to handle collection of educational content and logistics (besides AV) to produce the conference each year. We asked her to share some more about her role and what the conference experience is like for her behind the scenes.

2021 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Sharon M. Ashley is the senior residency program coordinator for emergency medicine at Emory University.

Featured in this e-Communication is information on the new preventive medicine specialties, resident member nominations for a variety of Review Committees, registration for a institutional coordinator workshop, and more.

This week's e-Communication includes additional ACGME Equity Matters modules now available in Learn at ACGME; new solicitations for resident members for selected Review Committees; a request for feedback to inform a major revision of the Institutional Requirements, and more.

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME Courage to Lead Award winner John B. Waits, MD, CPE, FAAFP.

The “Fostering Meaning and Connections through Storytelling and Written Reflection” session at the 2022 ACGME Annual Educational Conference discussed the concept and benefits of narrative medicine. 

This week's e-Communication includes the Call for Abstracts for the 2023 Annual Educational Conference, a survey to assist the Milestones program with quality assurance, ACGME Case Log System updates for some specialties and subspecialties, and more.