A Q and A with Rola Hamam, MD about her team's poster from the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, “Impact of the Economic Crisis, COVID-19, and the Beirut Explosion on Ophthalmology Training in Lebanon.”
The ACGME would like to congratulate Drs. Kenechukwu Ojukwu (Project Leader) and Erica Fermon, the Back to Bedside project team from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) David Geffen School of Medicine/UCLA Medical Center, winners of this year’s “Shark Tank”-style competition at the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, held March 7-9 in Orlando, Florida.
A Q and A with Chadley Froes, MD about his poster from the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, “Integrating LGBTQ+ Patient Care into Graduate Medical Education.”
A summary of the Sunset Session at the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, an open and personal panel discussion about "Life as LGBTQIA+ in the Current Learning Environment."
Learn more about the Back to Bedside initiative; applying for the Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award; ways to be involved in work related to Medically Underserved Areas and Populations; the Clinican Educator Journal Club and more.
Read a special announcement about the ACGME's commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion; about the ACGME's role in establishing a Advisory Commission on Alternate Licensing Models; and more.
Leading health care and medical associations from across the country today made a statement in support of DEI policies in health care, as a means to help improve the health of our nation.
The majority of these physicians are international medical graduates (IMGs), encompassing both foreign nationals and U.S. citizens who completed their medical education and training outside the United States and Canada.
A recent study published in JAMA Surgery revealed that “ACGME Milestone ratings of “graduating vascular surgeons may be predictive of those surgeons’ risk-adjusted patient outcomes in their early career following a common vascular operation.”
Review the revised Guide to the Common Program Requirements (Fellowship); sign up for a course on faculty development; and participate in the Review and Comment process.