A preview of the four Featured Plenaries being offered at the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.

As you review session descriptions and plan your conference schedule, here are five key reasons to stay through the end of the conference on Saturday evening, February 29.

Crystal Jing Jing Yeo, MD, PhD, MRCP(UK), a neurology resident in her final year of residency, came to the Annual Educational Conference as a poster presenter. Her poster on Trainee Responses to Hurricane Harvey: Correlating Volunteerism with Burnout was selected from among numerous responses to the ACGME’s Call for Abstracts for presentation at the 2018 Annual Educational Conference. We spoke with Dr. Yeo about her project and future plans at the Poster Reception on Thursday evening, March 1.

2020 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Kimberly Brown, C-TAGME is the GME program coordinator for emergency medicine at Duke University Hospital.

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.

This edition of the e-Communication includes Review and Comment deadlines, nominations for Review Committee resident/fellow and public members, office hours to discuss Institutional Requirements on vacation and leaves of absences, and career opportunities with the ACGME.

2022 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Amit R.T. Joshi, MD, FACS is a professor of surgery and the associate dean for GME at Cooper Medical School of Rowan University Cooper University Healthcare in Camden, New Jersey. Dr. Joshi is also the editor-in-chief of the Surgical Council on Resident Education (SCORE®). 

2020 ACGME David C. Leach Awardee Marjon Vatanchi, MD is an assistant professor and director of nail surgery and special procedures at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Q and A with 2026 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Julie A. Venci, MD.

Q and A with 2026-2028 Jeremiah A. Barondess Fellow Bryan Broderick, MD, MEHP from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.