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NEW! ACGME Board of Directors: Requirement Revisions Approved
At its September meeting, the Board of Directors approved the following:
Interim revision of the Residency, Fellowship, One-Year Fellowship, and Post-Doctoral Education Program versions of the Common Program Requirements and related modifications to specialty-/subspecialty-specific requirements, effective July 1, 2026. The Requirements are available under the “Program Requirements Effective 7/1/2026” heading on the Common Program Requirements page of the ACGME website. A compilation of the “Specialty-/Subspecialty-Specific Modifications Effective July 1, 2026” can be found under the “Requirements” heading on the Program Requirements and FAQs and Applications page for all specialties. Specialty-/subspecialty-specific requirement documents will be updated, posted to the ACGME website, and announced in this e-Communication by January 1, 2026.
Major revision of the Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Vascular Surgery (Integrated and Independent), effective July 1, 2026. The Requirements are available under the “Program Requirements Effective 7/1/2026” heading on the Program Requirements and FAQs and Applications page of the General Surgery section of the ACGME website.
Interim revision of the Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Urology, effective July 1, 2026. The Requirements are available under the “Program Requirements Effective 7/1/2026” heading on the Program Requirements and FAQs and Applications page of the Urology section of the ACGME website.
New Program Requirements for Graduate Medical Education in Transplant Nephrology, effective September 30, 2025. The Requirements and specialty-specific program application are available under the “Program Requirements Effective 9/30/2025” heading on the Program Requirements and FAQs and Applications page of the Internal Medicine section of the ACGME website.
Modification to the Correctional (Carceral) Medicine Requirements, effective September 30, 2025. The Requirements are available under the “Correctional (Carceral) Medicine Program Requirements Effective 9/30/2025” heading on the Program Requirements and FAQs and Applications page of the Correctional (Carceral) Medicine section of the ACGME website.
NEW! Accreditation Site Visit Office Hours
Date and Time: November 7, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Central (Registration closes at 11:30 a.m. Central)
These office hours provide an informal opportunity to ask questions about accreditation site visits. Accreditation Field Representatives and other Field Activities staff members will be available to answer questions.
Email questions to Associate Director, Field Activities Andrea Chow.
NEXT WEEK! ACGME LINC
Topic: The Most Common Program Citations and How to Respond
Date and Time: October 20, 5:00-6:00 p.m. Central
Who: Most applicable to those in charge of programs; all roles in GME are invited to attend.
This month's topic was generated from participant feedback during last month's ACGME LINC [Listening, Information, News, Collaboration] session! Registration is available on a first-come, first-served basis. ACGME LINC is a new opportunity for the graduate medical education (GME) community to interact with the ACGME, hear from ACGME representatives, and receive updates and information on ACGME activities.
Register for October ACGME LINC
Upcoming Sessions!
November 3: Annual Institutional Review
December 15: Details Coming Soon!
Miss September's session? View the recording.
Email questions to outreach@acgme.org.
THURSDAY! Clinician Educator Journal Club
Date and Time: October 16, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Central
Topic: Creating a welcoming environment in GME for introverted and extroverted learners
Speakers: Caren M. Stalburg, MD, MA; Beth Bierer, PhD; and Deborah Simpson, PhD
This group meets online on the third Thursday of each month to discuss journal articles and timely topics in medical education. Participants should read the article ahead of time and come with questions.
Continuing medical education (CME) is now available for attending these meetings. View CME information.
Missed a session? View on-demand recordings of past meetings. Send registration questions to virtualevents@acgme.org.
Register for October Journal Club
Medically Underserved Areas and Populations (MUA/P) Interest Group
Date and Time: October 21, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Central
Topic: Obstetrics and Gynecology GME in Rural and Underserved Areas
These Zoom calls take place on the third Tuesday of each month and are open to the entire GME community. Each session is recorded and is available in the MUA/P and GME Resource Center in Learn at ACGME.
Colon and Rectal Surgery Case Minimums Logging Update
The Review Committee for Colon and Rectal Surgery would like to inform the community that procedural log minimums have been updated and posted to the Documents and Resources page of the Colon and Rectal Surgery section of the ACGME website.
The Accreditation Data System (ADS) was updated September 22, 2025, and the new minimums will be in effect retroactively to July 1, 2025 (for the current academic year 2025-2026, beginning August 1, 2025). Cases entered in between July 1, 2025 and September 22, 2025 will automatically be mapped according to the new system. The mapping delay in ADS was done to ensure that programs were able to archive procedural logs from the 2024-2025 academic year.
While it is not anticipated that programs will have difficulty meeting the new minimums, any challenges should be addressed in the Major Changes and Other Updates section of the ADS Annual Update.
Contact Kristen Ward Hirsch with questions.
Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine Case Log
Update Effective July 1, 2025, the requirement for residents to identify a Somatic Dysfunction (body region) when logging a patient encounter in the ACGME Case Log System was discontinued.
A patient encounter now only requires a treatment technique to be selected for it to count toward meeting established patient encounter minimums, as outlined in the Program Requirements.
Additional information can be found in the Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine Announcement available on the Documents and Resources page of the Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine section of the ACGME website, along with an updated version of the Case Log Instructions for Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine.
Programs should share this information with their residents. Residents whose patient encounter minimum counts have dropped from the previous academic year are encouraged to review the Case Detail report to ensure all patient encounters were logged with a treatment technique, as appropriate.
Email questions to Executive Director Tiffany Moss.
Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Office Hours
Meet with the ACGME Review Committee Executive Director and Chair during the 2025 combined meeting of the Society of University Otolaryngologists Head & Neck Surgeons, Association of Academic Departments of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, and Otolaryngology Program Directors Organization. Appointments will be held on a first-come, first served basis at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC on November 7-8, 2025.
Email Deanna Eallonardo with questions or to schedule an appointment.
TWO WEEKS! ACGME Seeks Resident/Fellow Member
The following Review Committee seeks nominations for its next resident member, for a two-year term beginning July 1, 2026.
Nuclear Medicine
Details: Additional information is available under Documents and Resources in the Nuclear Medicine section of the ACGME website.
Contact: Bianca Andino
Deadline: November 1, 2025
Faculty Development Hubs
The ACGME collaborates with institutions and organizations in the US and abroad to offer scaled, tailored versions of its Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment course. See below for open courses and visit the Faculty Development Hubs web page for more information.
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (in person; Abu Dhabi, UAE)
Southeast Hub (in person; Greenville, South Carolina)
University of California, Los Angeles (in person; Los Angeles, California)
Washington University (in person; St. Louis, Missouri)
TUESDAY! JGME Annual Call for New Ideas 2026
JGME is seeking novel GME interventions or assessments that have been implemented at least once and appear successful in preliminary evaluations.
Read Criteria and Submit New Ideas
The submission deadline is Tuesday, October 14, 2025.
NEW! JGME Articles of the Week
The Feasibility and Impact of Implementing Brief Educator Development Sessions in Underresourced Residency Training Sites
Adrienne Silver, MD; Patricia A. Carney, PhD, MS; Robynn Church, BS; et al.
This monthly 25-minute web-based program was designed to help busy community-based program directors and other educators develop their skills in rural and underresourced settings. The findings showed both feasibility and utility, with participants self-reporting their intention to apply what they learned in their work with learners.
Night Shift Work Strategy for Medical Trainees
Deandra Kuruppu, DO; Christopher Lau, MD; Joyce Lee-Iannotti, MD; Michelle Zeidler, MD, MS
During overnight work shifts, residents must learn to manage the challenges of disrupted sleep, fatigue, social isolation, and increased risk of error. This Rip Out article offers solutions for adapting through strategies such as pre-shift naps, efficient workflows, and recovery planning. Like all Rip Out articles, it includes practical advice for starting today as well as strategies to implement long term.
Update to JGME e-Table of Contents
Beginning with the upcoming October issue, the bi-monthly JGME e-Table of Contents will now be sent from jgme@acgme.org instead of ACGMECommunications@acgme.org. This change underscores JGME's editorial independence and makes it easier for readers to identify that the email is coming from the journal. To ensure seamless delivery:
- whitelist/approve all @acgme.org emails.
- whitelist/approve the following IP range, which is generated by the ACGME’s email management system: IP range: 141.193.208.0/23 (141.193.208.[0-255] AND 141.193.209.[0-255]). Domains are associated with the IP selected from the pool at the time of sending. Those domains should all end with n-email.net (Example: 141.193.208.190 is dv8-190.n-email.net.).
This information can be forwarded to institutional IT staff for implementation.
Email questions to jgme@acgme.org.
Career Opportunities
The ACGME is always interested in finding talented, dedicated individuals to join the organization and support its mission to improve health care and population health by assessing and enhancing the quality of resident and fellow physicians' education through advancements in accreditation and education.
Chief Education and Research Officer
Anyone interested is asked to email staffing@acgme.org for details.