Newsroom and Blog Updates on Pursuing Excellence
Behind the Poster: An Interview with Tina Simpson, MD, MPH and Latesha Elopre, MD, MSPH
At the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, Dr. Tina Simpson presented her team’s work in the poster, Implementing an Anti-Racism Workshop at an Academic University in the Deep South for Graduate Medical Education.

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with Debra (Debbie) Kay Stevens
2021 GME Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Debra (Debbie) Kay Stevens is the program administrator for internal medicine at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University.

ACGME Releases CLER Findings for Operative and Procedural Areas
ACGME Leaders Coauthor Article on the Transition to a Single Accreditation System
Published online this month in Academic Medicine, the invited commentary describes the transition to a single accreditation system for US graduate medical education, which formed after an historic agreement among the ACGME, American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine, and American Osteopathic Association.
April 5, 2021
Resources from GME Stakeholders Congress for Opioid Use Now Available
The videos and resources from last week’s GME Stakeholders Congress on Preparing Residents and Fellows to Manage Pain and Addiction are now available to the public free of charge. To access, sign up for a Learn at ACGME account or log into an existing account to view the content.

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with 2021 ACGME Awardee Adam Finney
2021 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Adam Finney is a program coordinator for child neurology and pediatric epilepsy at the University of Colorado.

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with 2021 ACGME Awardee Ann Schwartz, MD
2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Ann Schwartz, MD is the director of residency education in psychiatry at Emory University School of Medicine.

Honoring Excellence: Q and A with 2021 ACGME Awardee Jennifer Wilson, BA, C-TAGME
Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Jennifer Wilson, BA, C-TAGME is the GME program administrator for family medicine at the University of Vermont (UVM) Medical Center.

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.