Dr. Eli Khazoum is the rising Chief Resident for the internal medicine residency program at Franciscan Health Olympia Fields in Olympia Fields, Illinois. He attended the 2023 ACGME Annual Educational Conference in part to support his transition into the Chief Resident role. As a resident and first-time Annual Educational Conference attendee, we asked him to share his impressions.

In an effort to emphasize the Engaging Each Other portion of the conference theme, the Educational Activities team, responsible for putting the conference together under the leadership of Timothy P. Brigham, MDiv, PhD, has added a few exciting new items to this year’s event.

ACGME Global Services spoke with Sawsan Abdel-Razig, MD, MEHP about the concept of the local view of "glocalization" in Abu Dhabi.

2021 David C. Leach Awardee Bryce Montané, MD is a third-year resident in internal medicine at the Cleveland Clinic.

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.”

Register for the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; apply for a 2026 ACGME Award; participate in the January Clinician Educator Journal Club meeting; and submit Milestones assessments by January 10, 2025.

Health provider shortage areas, comprised of urban and rural regions with high populations of people struggling with multi-morbidity and poverty, often have a challenge with physician recruitment. Dr. Meaghan Ruddy, vice president for Academic Affairs and director of Medical Education for The Wright Center for GME in Scranton, Pennsylvania, describes how a teaching health center family medicine program operationalized as a graduate medical education safety-net consortium.

The ACGME's Developing Faculty Competencies in Assessment course in Chicago, as well as a growing number of regional courses based on it, teach practical and effective applications of multiple assessment methods and tools; guidance for creating effective assessment programs; and techniques to most effectively use the Milestones and Entrustable Professional Activities for professional development.

A Q and A with 2024 Lewis Blackman Patient Safety Awardee Leslie Chang, MD.

A Q and A with 2025 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Marcie Feinman, MD, MEHP, FACS.