At the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Athena Gonzalez and her team presented their poster, Strategies for Optimizing Fit Testing for Residents and the Evolving Role of the Program Coordinator, about their work in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure residents were wearing properly sized and fitted masks and respirators, even as supplies changed.

This is one in a series of project profiles of the ACGME’s Back to Bedside initiative, which empowers residents and fellows to develop innovations that foster meaning and joy in work and engage their patients on a deeper level.

The Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME)’s session at the 2022 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, “Turning Your Educational Evaluation Work into Scholarly Activity,” discussed turning evaluation work into scholarly activity.

The ACGME welcomes the publication of the two iCOMPARE papers in the New England Journal of Medicine. 

2022 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Melissa Wheeler, M.A., works as the residency coordinator of orthopaedic surgery at Summa Health.

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.

Observe Suicide Prevention Month by reviewing the ACGME's resources for Sponsoring Institutions and programs that want to improve well-being of their communities; read the #ACGME2025 Program Guide; and register for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions and Clinical Learning Environments meeting in October. 

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.

This week's e-Communication includes details on how to join the ACGME Equity Matters Learning Community; information on the 2024 Annual Educational Conference; how to participate in shaping Program Requirements for certain specialties and subspecialties; and more.