Interviews

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with Kristen Estrada, C-TAGME

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Kristen Estrada, C-TAGME.

January 2024

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with John W. Engstrom, MD

2024 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. John Engstrom is the Betty Anker Fife Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Vice Chair for Clinical Affairs, and program director of the adult neurology residency at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

January 2024

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with Yvette Calderon, MD, MS and Melissa Barton, MD of the American Board of Emergency Medicine

A Q and A with representatives from the American Board of Emergency Medicine, which is recognized with the 2024 ACGME Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award.

January 2024

The ACGME and Global Health: Insights from Singapore on the Regional View of Glocalization

To further explore glocalization in the health care space, ACGME Global Services spoke with the senior director of National University of Singapore School of Medicine Centre for Medical Education and senior consultant of the Ministry of Health Singapore.

December 2023

My Conference Experience: Q and A with Sultana Mustafa, EdD, EdM, MA

Dr. Sultana Mustafa serves as the evaluation specialist in the Graduate Medical Education (GME) Office at New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH). We asked her to share her experience at the 2023 Annual Educational Conference held in Nashville at the end of February.

April 2023

Partnerships to Establish and Sustain Rural GME: Q and A with Rhonda Edison, DO and Ms. Trinity Turner of Community Health of Central Washington

The next post in the Partnerships to Establish and Sustain Rural GME series looks at the Central Washington family medicine residency program's rural participating site located in Ellensburg, Washington.

April 2023

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Emily M. Hawes, PharmD

In the poster “Bolstering the Rural Physician Workforce in Underserved Communities: Are Rural Residency Planning and Development Programs Finding the Sweet Spot?” Emily M. Hawes, PharmD and her team used data about existing rural residency programs to identify potential sites for future programs. Dr. Hawes answered our questions on behalf of her team.

March 2023

Behind the Poster: An Interview with Shauna Gibbons, MD

In the poster, “Responding to Racism in the Learning Environment,” Shauna Gibbons, MD, explores how providing tools to educators can affect how racism is addressed in the learning environment. Dr. Gibbons answerd our questions on behalf of her team.

March 2023

Behind the Poster: Q and A with Kelly Maas, MHPE, C-TAGME

In the poster “Stop, Collaborate and Listen: Creating a Culture of Coordinator Collaboration and Mentorship through the Formation of a Subspecialty Organization,” a team of coordinators evaluated the impact of creating a fellowship-specific coordinator organization. Kelly Maas answered our questions on behalf of her team.

March 2023

My Conference Experience: Behind the Scenes with Justin Dreyfuss, MS

Justin Dreyfuss is the Media Communications Manager at the ACGME. At the Annual Educational Conference, he helps cover sessions for the ACGME Blog, live tweets, takes photos during times that the conference’s professional photographer is covering other sessions, sets up interviews and coordinates with the videographer, and gathers the pulse of the conference. We asked him to share his experience.

March 2023