This special edition of the weekly e-Communication includes COVID-19 News including additional Frequently Asked Questions, information on the Sponsoring Institution Idea Exchange, Review and Recognition Committee News, and more.
This new award, which will be given in 2021, recognizes efforts to achieve diversity and inclusion in graduate medical education.
This special edition of the weekly e-Communication includes the announcement of the new ACGME Diversity and Inclusion Awards, a new policy statement, Coalition for Physician Accountability report, and new Frequently Asked Questions.
Bonnie Simpson Mason, MD has joined the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) as Vice President, Diversity and Inclusion.
Four major plenaries after Friday morning’s address by ACGME President and CEO Thomas J. Nasca, MD will be presented by outstanding national leaders, and will discuss critical issues at the forefront of the GME discussion right now.
Griffin P. Rodgers, MD, MBA, MMSc, MACP, the director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), presented NIDDK Initiatives to Eliminate Health Disparities and Train a Diverse Workforce as one of the Annual Educational Conference’s three featured sessions on Friday, March 8.
FierceHealthcare, an independent media outlet dedicated to health care industry news and analysis, included a brief about the ACGME's new Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer William A. McDade, MD, PhD in its "Physician Practice Roundup."
William A. McDade, MD, PhD has joined the ACGME as its Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer. He will lead diversity and inclusion activities focusing on national initiatives to include underrepresented groups in the medical education continuum.
On this first full day of the ACGME Annual Educational Conference, attendees were encouraged to “reignite the fire” of passion that drives them to work in graduate medical education, and to rediscover their meaning in medicine.