NOW OPEN! Annual Educational Conference Call for Abstracts: 2024 Annual Educational Conference
SUBMIT YOUR ABSTRACT PROPOSAL TODAY!
The ACGME invites proposals for abstracts for the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference. All accepted abstracts will be presented on site as posters at the conference, taking place March 7-9, 2024 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida. Members of the graduate medical education (GME) community are encouraged to use this opportunity to share their innovations and research with their peers.
Questions?
Call for Abstracts: abstracts@acgme.org.
NEW! #ACGME2024 Program Guide Now Available!
The ACGME Annual Educational Conference brings together the largest GME community in the world and features a wide selection of curated experiences and content that appeal to both seasoned and first-time attendees. The conference theme of Meaning in Medicine underscores the need for sustaining purpose and joy in work as health care professionals. It is important for leaders, caregivers, and educators to remember the fundamental influences that called them to medicine, with a focus on the central mission to provide the best patient care possible. The ACGME looks forward to continuing conversations, building stronger connections, and sparking new ideas at #ACGME2024! Registration opens later this fall.
NEW! Common Program Requirements FAQs Updated
An updated Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) document for the Common Program Requirements is accessible under Additional Resources on the Common Program Requirements page of the ACGME website.NEW! Common Program Requirements-Survey Crosswalks Updated
To facilitate review of the Resident/Fellow and Faculty Survey reports, crosswalk documents listing the applicable Common Program Requirement(s) corresponding with each item on the survey reports are available on the ACGME website in the Documents and Resources section for each specialty, on the Institutional Documents and Resources page, and on the Resident/Fellow and Faculty Surveys page.NEW! CLER Program Workshop Recording Available
NEW! Upcoming Direct Observation Toolkit Webinar!
Explore the ACGME’s new Improving Assessment Using Direct Observation Toolkit with ACGME experts and toolkit authors. The toolkit offers faculty development curricula for institutions that can be adapted to local needs and provides individual faculty members with techniques that will help them become better educators. The toolkit is available at no cost to the GME community in Learn at ACGME.Register here for one of the free webinar sessions:
September 12: 4:15 - 5:00 p.m. Central
Agenda At-a-Glance Now Available!
Designed specifically for designated institutional officials (DIOs) and other institutional leaders, the meeting will convene in Chicago and online.
The meeting will provide unique opportunities for shared learning, networking, and peer support; foster community building among Sponsoring Institutions; and allow Sponsoring Institutions to collaborate, share successful practices to strengthen clinical learning environments, and solve challenges.
TUESDAY! MUA/P Interest Group Sessions
The aim of these interest group sessions is for the community to learn about efforts in GME and MUA/P, to solve for common challenges, and to share helpful knowledge and resources.
The first session, “Lessons Learned: Building a Sustainable Program with an Underserved Area/Population," will be held this Tuesday, August 22 at 3:00 p.m. Central.
Additional call dates are: Tuesdays, September 26; October 24; and November 28 at 3:00 p.m. Central.
RSVP for the series by completing this registration form.
ADS Annual Update Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) Updated
NEW! Review and Comment
NEW! COMMENT DEADLINE: OCTOBER 4, 2023
Female Pelvic and Reconstructive Surgery
Pediatrics
DEADLINE THURSDAY! COMMENT DEADLINE: AUGUST 24, 2023
Correctional (Carceral) Medicine
COMMENT DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Blood Banking/Transfusion Medicine
Chemical Pathology
Cytopathology
Forensic Pathology
Hematopathology
Medical Microbiology
Neuropathology
Pediatric Pathology
Selective Pathology
Shaping GME | Call for Comments
The process convened specialty-specific writing groups, who, along with members of the specialty community and leaders from other specialties and related fields, rigorously and creatively considered what the specialty will look like in the future (recognizing that the future is marked with significant uncertainty). Out of this process, the Writing Group will draft and propose revisions to the Program Requirements that will prepare the learners for current practice and generations to come.
The following writing groups request feedback. The scenario-based planning summary of themes and insights is posted for review and comment here. Submit comments using the electronic review and comment form.
DEADLINE WEDNESDAY! VASCULAR SURGERY
Deadline: August 23, 2023
COLON AND RECTAL SURGERY
Deadline: August 30, 2023
NEW! Family Medicine FAQs Updated
Contact Executive Director Eileen Anthony with questions.
Review Committee for Ophthalmology Chair to Present at #AAO2023
Session Details
Session Code: SPE03
Speaker: Dr. Laura Green, Chair of the ACGME Review Committee for Ophthalmology
Meet with the Neurological Surgery Executive Director in Washington, DC
Appointments will be scheduled on a first-come, first-served basis and take place September 11, 2023 at the Marriott Marquis Washington, DC from 12:20-1:50 p.m. Eastern.
Email Accreditation Administrator Randie Salerno with questions or to schedule an appointment.
NEW! Articles of the Week
Post-Dobbs: The Consequences of Abortion Bans on Complex Family Planning Training
Natalie DiCenzo, MD; Marisa Giglio, MD
While recent abortion restrictions more directly impact the education and training of certain medical specialties, abortion bans affect all clinicians who may encounter pregnant patients, including complex family planning physicians who now find their field becoming more stigmatized, siloed, restricted, and even outlawed. This Perspectives article argues for ways the ACGME and other organizations can advocate for creating or expanding access, education and training, and clinician protections.
Using a Consensus-Driven Approach to Incorporate Holistic Review Into an Internal Medicine Residency Program
Emily Caldarelli, EdD; Jennifer J. Hess, MD; Eleanor Weaver, MD; Ryan Buckley, MD; Rebecca R. Swan, MD; Julie Schumacher, PhD; Sophia Kostelanetz, MD, MPH; Mario A. Davidson, PhD, MS, MAS, MA; Megan Whitey, C-TAGME; Reena Black, MBA, C-TAGME; Kyla P. Terhune, MD, MBA
Holistic review within residency admissions has gained a growing interest, as it can better align residency selection criteria with institutional values and increase program diversity. Limited guidance exists, however, on how to practically implement it. This Educational Innovation article reports on how an internal medicine residency program implemented a novel holistic review process using a consensus-driven approach to identify desired applicant attributes that align with institutional mission and values.
Fall 2023 Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment Course Returns to In-Person Format
The ACGME will offer its longstanding Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment course in person in the ACGME office in Chicago, Illinois, October 8-13, 2023.
This course is intended to help participants design and make improvements in their own assessment programs and strive toward achieving the goals of competency-based medical education.
Learn more and register for the fall 2023 course.
ACGME Seeks Institutional Review Committee Members
The Institutional Review Committee is seeking five DIO members for a six-year term beginning July 1, 2024. Additional information is available on the Documents and Resources page linked from the Institutional Review Committee page of the ACGME website. The deadline for submissions is September 8, 2023.
Email questions to irc@acgme.org.
ACGME Seeks Public Member
Details: Additional information is available under Documents and Resources in the Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery section of the ACGME website.
Contact: Jennifer Luna
Deadline: August 25, 2023
ACGME Seeks Resident/Fellow Members
DEADLINE FRIDAY! OTOLARYNGOLOGY – HEAD AND NECK SURGERY
Details: Additional information is available under Documents and Resources in the Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery section of the ACGME website.
Contact: Jennifer Luna
Deadline: August 25, 2023
FAMILY MEDICINE
Details: Additional information is available under Documents and Resources in the Family Medicine section of the ACGME website.
Contact: Sandra Benitez
Deadline: September 1, 2023
OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY
Details: Additional information is available under Documents and Resources in the Obstetrics and Gynecology section of the ACGME website.
Contact: Shellie Bardgett
Deadline: September 1, 2023
Details: Additional information is available under Documents and Resources in the Allergy and Immunology section of the ACGME website.
Contact: Deneen McCall
Deadline: September 30, 2023
Details: Additional information is available under Documents and Resources in the Psychiatry section of the ACGME website.
Contact: Deneen McCall
Deadline: September 30, 2023
NUCLEAR MEDICINE
Details: The resident member must have a minimum of one year of residency education remaining after July 1, 2024. Additional information is available under Documents and Resources in the Nuclear Medicine section of the ACGME website.
Contact: Bianca Andino
Deadline: October 13, 2023