Drs. Lyuba Konopasek, Stuart Slavin, and Timothy Brigham walked participants through the ACGME-developed guidebook, “Well-Being in the Time of COVID-19,” and explored how the ideas within it could be implemented in graduate medical education in their 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference session.

ACGME President and CEO Dr. Nasca emphasizes the need for a focus on well-being in GME and provides an update on the 80-hour clinical work hours requirement.

ACGME Chief of Staff and Chief Education Officer Timothy P. Brigham, MDiv, MS, PhD brought together two national leaders in medicine, Victor Dzau, MD, president of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), and Vivek H. Murthy, MD, MBA, US Surgeon General, to discuss the work to develop the NAM National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being.

Q and A with #ACGME2025 poster presenter Dipti Chrastka, LMFT, on her team's study on "Enhancing Resident Well-Being with Lightbox Therapy."

As increasing rates of stress, depression, and fatigue fuel concern about physician well-being, the ACGME, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and Mayo Clinic today launched an initiative to prevent physician and medical trainee suicides.

Along with the August 2020 issue, the Journal of Graduate Medical Education is excited to introduce the sixth episode of the JGME Podcast, Hot Topics in MedEd.

This week's e-Communication includes information about the ACGME Awards, Review and Comment, a new event about program director well-being, and the date for the 2023 National Learning Community of Sponsoring Institutions meeting. 

Thirty-three projects designed to help residents and fellows find deeper connections with patients and improve physician and patient well-being have been chosen in the second cycle of funding for Back to Bedside.

Read about the Mental Health and Well-Being in Transitions materials available in Learn at ACGME; participate in Review and Comment; and review the criteria for the Calls for Sessions for the 2025 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.

This edition of the e-Communication includes details on the National Academy of Medicin's National Plan for Health Workforce Well-Being, the 2023 ACGME Award recipients, the 2023 Annual Educational Conference, the 2021-2022 Data Resource Book and 2021-2022 ACGME Annual Report, and more.