Newsroom and Blog Updates on Pursuing Excellence
Medical Residents Can Work 24 Hours Straight, Accreditor Says
Forbes magazine wrote about the recent changes to the ACGME Common Program Requirements.
First-Year Doctors Will be Allowed to Work 24-Hour Shifts Starting in July
This Washington Post article discusses the recent updates made to the ACGME's Common Program Requirements.
ACGME Releases Revised Common Program Requirements, Section VI, The Learning and Working Environment
These new requirements that all accredited US residency and fellowship programs follow in preparing today's physicians for practice reinforce a culture of patient safety and physician well-being by focusing on patient-centered, team-based care.
Why So Many Young Doctors Work Such Awful Hours
This article, published in The Atlantic, explores how residencies are structured to serve the dual, often dueling, aims of training the profession’s next generation and minding the hospital’s labor needs.
Update on Immigration Policy
ACGME CEO Dr. Nasca provides an expanded response to the executive order on immigration as it affects the graduate medical education community. Check back here for more updates on this issue.
Immigration Policy
ACGME CEO Dr. Nasca addresses the Executive Order on immigration with the graduate medical education community.
ACGME Joins National Academy of Medicine’s 'Action Collaborative' to Promote Physician Well-Being and Combat Burnout, Depression, and Suicide Among Health Care Workers
Responding to evidence of high rates of depression and suicide among US health care workers, the ACGME joined the National Academy of Medicine, which launched a wide-ranging "action collaborative" to promote clinician well-being.
December 2016 Issue of Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME) Focuses on Well-Being
On the heels of the ACGME's Second Symposium on Physician Well-Being, JGME released its December 2016 issue featuring the latest research and commentary on well-being in residency, developing emotional intelligence, and more.
Three Leading Health Organizations Aim to Reduce Suicides by Physicians, Medical Trainees
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.
The ACGME and National Patient Safety Foundation Address Themes in Patient Safety
The ACGME presented the second in a series of webinars designed around the findings of Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program site visits related to the six CLER Focus Areas.