Q and A with 2026 ACGME David C. Leach Awardee Brannan O'Neill, MD.

Following steady growth in ACGME-accredited programs over the last decade, the 2018-2019 academic year showed the largest annual increase of programs to 11,685, up 4.2 percent from the previous academic year.

The ACGME has created informational videos as part of a national commercial spot for CNN Headline News. The videos spotlight the organization's focus on improving resident education and confronting the changing health care landscape.

The next post in the Partnerships to Establish and Sustain Rural GME series features an interview with Matthew A. Braniecki, DO from Firelands Regional Medical Center.

Karen J. Nichols, DO, MA, MACOI, FACP, CS-F is the current Chair of the ACGME Board of Directors, having assumed this role in September 2020. We asked Dr. Nichols to talk about her professional experience, her role, and her experience with the ACGME’s first-ever virtual Annual Educational Conference.

Since 2013, the ACGME has used Milestones ratings to assess physician learners across the six Core Competencies, including Professionalism and Interpersonal and Communication Skills. A new study published in JAMA sheds light on their association to early unsupervised practice.

A Q and A with 2024 David C. Leach Award winner Jaymin Bakul Patel, MD.

The 2017-2018 academic year showed the largest annual increase of programs from the previous academic year, and residents in ACGME pipeline programs increased 23% in the last 10 years.

A Q and A with 2025 ACGME David C. Leach Awardee Kaitlin Snapp, MD.