Newsroom and Blog Updates on Pursuing Excellence
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.
Honoring Excellence: Q and A with Meghan M. Walsh, MD, MPH, FACP
2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Lead Awardee Meghan M. Walsh MD, MPH, FACP is the chief academic officer and DIO at Hennepin Healthcare. She specializes in internal medicine.
#ACGME2021 Session Summaries: JGME Unravels the Mysteries of the Manuscript Review and Editorial Process
Two popular sessions at the Annual Educational Conference, both presented by JGME Editors, shared tips on how to successfully prepare and submit for publication, and reviewed editors' top picks from other journals in 2020.
Honoring Excellence: Q and A with David Barnes, MD
2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee David Barnes, MD is the program director for emergency medicine at the University of California (UC) Davis Medical Center, UC Davis School of Medicine, UC Davis Health in Sacramento, California.
#ACGME2021 Session Summary: Moving Urgently toward Competency-Based Assessment in GME
In the 2021 ACGME Annual Educational Conference session, “Moving Urgently Toward Competency-Based Assessment in GME,” presenters from the ABMS and ACGME discussed that “the ultimate outcome for graduate medical education is the Quadruple Aim: better outcomes; improved clinician experience; lower costs; improved patient experience.”
Honoring Excellence: Q and A with Sharon M. Ashley
2021 Debra L. Dooley GME Program Coordinator Excellence Awardee Sharon M. Ashley is the senior residency program coordinator for emergency medicine at Emory University.
Choose to Challenge
March is recognized as Women’s History Month, and March 8 is International Women’s Day, a day honored globally since 1911.
March 8, 2021
This week's edition of the e-Communication includes information the Annual Educational Conference; ACGME Awards; Review and Comment; and Milestones News.
Honoring Excellence: Q and A with Angela Orozco, MD
2021-2023 Jeremiah A. Barondess Fellow Angela Orozco, MD is an assistant professor of medicine and associate program director for internal medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. The Fellowship is a jointly-presented award given in partnership with the New York Academy of Medicine.
Honoring Excellence: Q and A with Julie B. McCausland, MD, MS
2021 Parker J. Palmer Courage to Teach Awardee Julie B. McCausland, MD, MS is the program director for the transitional year program at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Medical Education in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She specializes in emergency medicine.
