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

This edition of the weekly e-Communication includes information on rural data enhancement (RDE) project office hours; the deadline for CLER visit blackout dates; the Call for Submissions for the National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions meeting; and Review and Comment.

A new ACGME Blog series, ACGME Answers, will provide context and detail about the ACGME, GME, and on some of the topics featured in the ACGME General FAQs.

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.

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

2020 ACGME David C. Leach Awardee Mariam Molani, MD, MBA is a PGY-3 resident in pathology at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

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.