A Q and A with Edgardo Ordonez, MD, MPH, director, Health Equity and Community Engagement at the Henry JN Taub Department of Emergency Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine; the emergency medicine program is a 2024 ACGME Barbara Ross-Lee, DO Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award winner.

Register for the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference; apply for a 2026 ACGME Award; participate in the January Clinician Educator Journal Club meeting; and submit Milestones assessments by January 10, 2025.

The third day of the conference featured a morning of inspiring talks, including the President’s Plenary with ACGME President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Nasca, MD, MACP, and a special fireside chat, “Rediscovering Meaning in Medicine” with Marvin R. Dunn Keynote Speaker Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, 19th surgeon general of the United States. The conference wrapped up Sunday morning with “Conversations with the CEO,” at which Dr. Nasca responded to questions submitted throughout the conference.

Physician well-being has been a key issue for the ACGME for as long as the organization has been serving the GME community.

2022 ACGME Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Dr. Josh Broder is the program director for emergency medicine at Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, North Carolina.

The next in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education’s (JGME’s) Journal Notes series features a conversation with Dr. Halah Ibrahim, a JGME associate editor from Khalifa University College of Medicine in Abu Dhabi.

A spotlight on content and events that may appeal particularly to international attendees that we hope will help make your #ACGME2024 planning a little easier.

A Q and A with 2024 ACGME Courage to Teach Awardee Michael Malone, MD, FAAFP.

Kelli Corning is the Associate Director of the University of Washington’s internal medicine residency program. She has been actively involved in program coordinator activities throughout her career in GME and participated in the full Annual Educational Conference, and also presented at the pre-conference Coordinator Forum. Additionally, this year Ms. Corning was a recipient of the ACGME’s GME Program Coordinator Excellence Award, which she received at the conference.

John Madara, MD wanted to find a way to improve incoming residents’ ability to identify and mitigate patient safety hazards, address these hazards through teamwork and collaboration, and report safety events using an online event reporting system. Dr. Madara, the chief fellow in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, worked with others to create an interactive, competitive “escape room” themed environment to stimulate learning and teamwork. His poster, Patient Safety Escape!: Engaging Residents in Patient Safety Education and Event Reporting, reports on the activity and its effectiveness in teaching residents about patient safety and online reporting procedures.