2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee David A. Wininger, MD is the internal medicine residency program director at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He specializes in infectious disease.

Start planning to attend #ACGME2026; participate in Review and Comment on the Common Program Requirements (interim revision); participate in the Clinician Educator Journal Club, and more.

Kelli Corning is the Associate Director of the University of Washington’s internal medicine residency program. She has been actively involved in program coordinator activities throughout her career in GME and participated in the full Annual Educational Conference, and also presented at the pre-conference Coordinator Forum. Additionally, this year Ms. Corning was a recipient of the ACGME’s GME Program Coordinator Excellence Award, which she received at the conference.

Learn about the new Program Coordinator Handbook; the Requirements Archive; open positions on Review Committees; and more.

Learn about the Annual Educational Conference, an upcoming workshop about the Direct Observation Toolkit, entering Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program blackout dates, and more.

2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Steven R. Brown, MD, FAAFP is the program director for family medicine at University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix.

This week's e-Communication includes information about the ACGME Awards, Review and Comment, a new event about program director well-being, and the date for the 2023 National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions meeting. 

This post in our Resources to Support GME series focuses on ACGME tools, educational opportunities, and resources for institutional and program coordinators.

2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Julie B. McCausland, MD, MS is the program director for the transitional year program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Medical Education in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She specializes in emergency medicine.

2023 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Bethany Millar is the manager, education, for internal medicine at Washington University School of Medicine.