Outstanding medical skills are not the same as leadership skills, and many newly appointed chief residents find a gap between their education and training and their new leadership role. To bridge that gap, the ACGME offers the Leadership Skills Training Program for chief residents.

This week's e-Communication includes information on the new Program Emergency Categorization process now available; nominations for the CLER Evaluation Committee, Annual Educational Conference updates and more.

Apply to join an Appeals Panel; participate in a webinar about nutritional competencies; take a survey about Milestones 2.0 to inform the next iteration of the program; and take a course in developing faculty competencies.

Submit a session proposal to present at the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; Review and Comment proposed Program Requirements; participate in the Clinician Educator Journal Club; and more.

Participate in Review and Comment; learn more about the proposed ACGME Program Requirements for Combined Programs; and sign up to test the first modular component of the new Clinical Learning Environment Toolkit for Formative Assessment.

The next post in the Partnerships to Establish and Sustain Rural GME series looks at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics Authority.

2022 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. Heather L. Burrows is the program director for pediatrics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan.