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March 29, 2021
This edition of the e-Communication includes information on the toolkit to help aid programs and incoming learners transition from medical school to residency; renaming the Diversity and Inclusion Award to honor Barbara Ross-Lee, DO; and nominations to Review Committees.
Honoring Excellence: Q and A with Steven R. Brown, MD, FAAFP
2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Steven R. Brown, MD, FAAFP is the program director for family medicine at University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix.
Behind the Poster: An Interview with Andrew Bi, MD
Andrew Bi, MD and colleagues explored the roles of female leaders and highlighted the need for improvement at the leadership level in orthopaedics and presented their research in the poster Female Representation within Orthopaedic Leadership: Where Are We Now? at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference in late February.
Honoring Excellence: Q and A with Joanne Valeriano-Marcet, MD
2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Joanne Valeriano-Marcet, MD is the rheumatology program director at University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine.
Behind the Poster: An Interview with Rachel Ruderman, MD, MPH
Rachel Ruderman, MD, MPH and her colleagues created a tool to help infertility patients undergoing numerous tests in different departments and even different institutions keep better record of their care, reducing frustration for both patients and physicians.
Honoring Excellence: Q and A with David A. Wininger, MD
2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee David A. Wininger, MD is the internal medicine residency program director at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. He specializes in infectious disease.
Behind the Poster: An Interview with Melissa Langhan, MD, MHS
Dr. Melissa Langhan and colleagues at Yale University School of Medicine looked at how unconscious bias may influence reviewers’ evaluation of applicants to their program, and shared their research in their poster, Improving Trainee Applicant Evaluations to Reduce Unconscious Bias, at the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.
Honoring Excellence: Q and A with Jodi Leonard
2021 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Jodi Leonard works as an education manager in pediatric residency at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, Oregon.
Honoring Excellence: Q and A with John F. McConville, MD
2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee John F. McConville, MD is the internal medicine program director at the University of Chicago. He specializes in pulmonology and critical care.
Behind the Poster: An Interview with Lorene Cudjoe
Lorene Cudjoe's poster, Increasing Diversity and Inclusion in Graduate Medical Education through Mentorship, presented at #ACGME2021, highlights a program designed to pair volunteer mentors with medical students preparing for the Match, for a look into how mentorship could help students identifying as racial or ethnic minorities match more successfully into their specialty of choice.
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