Advancing the ACGME Mission by working with global entities to enhance the quality of resident and fellow physicians’ education.

This first post in a new series focuses on resources provided by the ACGME on its website and distance learning platform for residents and fellows.

Bluefield Regional Medical Center in Bluefield, West Virginia will close inpatient and ancillary services by July 30, 2020. Eighteen residents will be displaced and the ACGME has opened ADS to aid with resident transfers. 

2021 GME Institutional Coordinator Excellence Awardee Lowell Virginia (Jennie) Craft, MPPM, C-TAGME is the director, GME Office at the University of Alabama Hospital – Birmingham.

A Q and A with 2025 ACGME Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Maggie Baker, C-TAGME.

2023 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. Karen Brasel is the program director for surgery, vice chair for education, and assistant dean for graduate medical education at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU).

These new requirements that all accredited US residency and fellowship programs follow in preparing today's physicians for practice reinforce a culture of patient safety and physician well-being by focusing on patient-centered, team-based care.

A Q and A with Mark Swofford, PhD, FACHE, who serves as a public member of the ACGME Review Committee for Thoracic Surgery, and on the Council of Public Members.

A Q and A with 2024 Lewis Blackman Patient Safety Award winner Elaine M. Griffeth, MD.

2023 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. Timothy R. Long is a program director for anesthesiology and vice chair for education at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.