Med Ed

Jessica Koran-Scholl, PhD and colleagues presented their work on the impact an obesity bias awareness workshop has on how physicians understand this phenomenon in the Poster Hall at the 2022 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, which was held virtually March 30-April 1, 2022.

This week's e-Communication includes information about an upcoming Rural Track webinar, office hours with the Insittutional Review Commttee Executive Director, the Milestones reporting window, and more.

Sarah Meadows, EdD, FACEHP and Abraham Nussbaum, MD, MTS studied the effects of financial debt on resident burnout. and presented their work in the Poster Hall at the 2022 ACGME Annual Educational Conference, which was held virtually March 30-April 1, 2022.

Recognizing the high rates of psychological distress of various forms for residents in training, Dr. Gregory Guldner and colleagues sought to learn whether an opt out approach would increase the number of residents who actually engaged with available therapy options.

This week's e-Communication includes access to three toolkits to assist transitions in medical education, a letter from President and Chief Executive Officer Thomas J. Nasca to ACGME volunteers, and more.

The ACGME, AACOM, AAMC, ABMS, AOA, and ECFMG have released three toolkits designed to aid programs and learners as they progress through disrupted years of the medical education continuum.

The new Clinician Educator Milestones are designed to aid in the development and improvement of teaching competence by assessing educational skills of faculty members across the continuum of medical education. They were introduced and contextualized in a session at the 2022 ACGME Annual Educational Conference.

This week's e-Communication includes inforamtion on the new Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) Advisory Group, revised Milestones, Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program blackout dates, and more.

Dr. Natasha Bray and colleagues explored how completing a residency in underserved areas affects independent practice location choice in a continuation and expansion of a previous study.

For more than two years, the COVID-19 pandemic fundamentally changed how every person on the globe works, plays, and interacts with each other. As what many hoped would be a few weeks of fear and uncertainty stretched into months and months, no one felt this stress more than health care professionals on the frontlines.