Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Dr. William McDade Appears on AMA Moving Medicine Video Series to Discuss ACGME Efforts to Amplify Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in GME
Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer William A. McDade, MD, PhD joined the AMA to discuss the new common program requirements, resources, and goals relating to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Journal Notes: A Look at LGBTQ+ Articles, Past and Present
In honor of Pride Month, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) is highlighting both recent and past articles tackling issues around LGBTQ+ diversity, equity, and inclusion.

A Message from Dr. Thomas J. Nasca
Dr. Nasca responds to the past year's acts of kindness and cruelty, especially in regards to hatred and violence towards communities of color. He calls on the graduate medical education community to advocate for change, fighting against systemic bias, and vows the ACGME will be a model for the profession.
Chief Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Officer William A. McDade, MD, PhD Appears on Black Men in White Coats Podcast with Dr. Dale
Dr. McDade joined Dr. Dale Okorodudu to discuss how he got into medicine growing up in Chicago, being the only African American in his class in medical school, his work on sickle cell disease, the work being done at ACGME, playing basketball with President Barack Obama, and much more.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Tina Simpson, MD, MPH and Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH
At the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Dr. Tina Simpson presented her team’s work in the poster, Implementing an Anti-Racism Workshop at an Academic University in the Deep South for Graduate Medical Education.

New Toolkit to Support Medical Students and Programs in the Transition to Residency during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Behind the Poster: An Interview with Melissa Langhan, MD, MHS
Dr. Melissa Langhan and colleagues at Yale University School of Medicine looked at how unconscious bias may influence reviewers’ evaluation of applicants to their program, and shared their research in their poster, Improving Trainee Applicant Evaluations to Reduce Unconscious Bias, at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Lorene Cudjoe
Lorene Cudjoe's poster, Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Graduate Medical Education through Mentorship, presented at #ACGME2021, highlights a program designed to pair volunteer mentors with medical students preparing for the Match, for a look into how mentorship could help students identifying as racial or ethnic minorities match more successfully into their specialty of choice.

Choose to Challenge
March is recognized as Women’s History Month, and March 8 is International Women’s Day, a day honored globally since 1911.
