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The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) is a private, non-profit, professional organization responsible for the accreditation of approximately 12,000 residency and fellowship programs and the approximately 865 institutions that sponsor these programs in the United States. Residency and fellowship programs educate approximately 145,000 resident and fellow physicians in 157 specialties and subspecialties. The ACGME’s mission is to improve health care and population health by assessing and enhancing the quality of resident and fellow physicians’ education through accreditation and education.

We imagine a world characterized by:
• A structured approach to evaluating the competency of all residents and fellows,
• Motivated physician role models leading all graduate medical education programs,
• High-quality, supervised, humanistic, clinical educational experience, with customized formative feedback,
• Clinical learning environments characterized by excellence in clinical care, safety, and professionalism,
• Residents and fellows achieving specialty specific proficiency prior to graduation,
• Residents and fellows prepared to become Virtuous Physicians who place the needs and well-being of patients first.

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Apr 16, 2024	Health \| She died after liposuction by a pediatrician. Doctors warn of cosmetic surgery’s ‘Wild West’	Emily Alpert Reyes \| (TNS) Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES — Inside a clinic wedged next to a smoke shop in a South Los Angeles strip mall, Dr. Mohamad Yaghi operated on a 28-year-old woman who had traveled from Las Vegas to have fat trimmed ...
Oct 27, 2023	Emergency medicine is grappling with a surprising problem: The prospect of too many physicians	While much of the health care workforce is battling staff shortages, the emergency medicine field is trying to figure out how to manage a potential oversupply of physicians. The American College of Emergency Physicians predicted in a 2021 s...
Jun 14, 2023	Health Health \| Burnout threatens primary care workforce and doctors’ mental health	Lauren Sausser \| KFF Health News (TNS) CHARLESTON, S.C. — Melanie Gray Miller, a 30-year-old physician, wiped away tears as she described the isolation she felt after losing a beloved patient. “It was at the end of a night shift, when it se...
Apr 26, 2023	Insights From The 2022-23 BS/MD Admissions Cycle	As the application cycle winds down, students likely have already started committing to their top choice schools. This cycle has continued to change from the past years, particularly for students applying to BS/MD or direct medical programs...
Mar 1, 2023	DeWitt C. Baldwin, Jr. Award Honors Institutions Representing the Finest in Graduate Medical Education	Chicago, IL, March 01, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The ACGME, in partnership with the Arnold P. Gold Foundation, is proud to announce the recipients of the DeWitt C. Baldwin, Jr. Award, presented to Sponsoring Institutions with ACGME-accredite...
Jan 26, 2023	Physicians need — and should take — paternity leave	When my daughter was born, I was just a year out of fellowship training, working hard within my hospital’s medical hierarchy. Fearful of burdening my colleagues with extra work, I did not use the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), a natio...
Jun 21, 2022	What will it take to level the playing field for Black residents?	This is part two of a STAT investigation on the dismissal of Black doctors from residency programs. For part one, click here. Black doctors are terminated from or leave their training programs in far higher numbers than white physicians, a ...
May 23, 2022	Immersion in innovation should be part of every health care professionals’ training	When it comes to fostering innovation, most academic medical centers, medical schools, and health systems use the “pull” approach: they open technology transfer offices, hire staff, create industry relationships, and then wait for physician...
May 5, 2022	Mental Health Awareness Month - CaseNetwork Announces Free Access to “The CoreWellness Index” for Wellness Assessment	CoreWellness Index Results The CoreWellness Index measures all 8 Domains of Wellness for Healthcare Professionals and Healthcare Institutions with Smartphone Access and Immediate Results NEWTOWN SQUARE, PA, US, May 5, 2022 /EINPresswire.com...
Feb 4, 2021	Emory and Morehouse Recognized with Inaugural ACGME Diversity and Inclusion Award
Jul 14, 2020	As residents get better at treating Covid-19, they may become worse at their own specialties	Eight hundred fifty. That’s the number of major procedures general surgery residents need to perform before graduating from residency. As Covid-19 continues to spread across the United States, this requirement and those of other residencies...
Mar 26, 2020	If Covid-19 will peak in June, teaching hospitals should consider delaying the start of new medical residents	Some projections place the peak of Covid-19 infections in the U.S. between May and June. If it is still going strong at the end of June, it will collide with the start of a new year in teaching hospitals across the country: July 1 is tradit...
Aug 26, 2019	Stop treating medical residents like indentured servants	Hundreds of years ago, poor immigrants were forced to become indentured servants to repay the cost of their passage to the U.S. by performing years of hard labor. This practice lives on for U.S. physicians-in-training, who have no choice bu...
Jun 20, 2019	We were inspired to become primary care physicians. Now we’re reconsidering a field in crisis	Nearly three years ago, we began training as primary care doctors in two residency programs at a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital. We understood the value of longitudinal patient-doctor relationships and wagered that primary care would ...
Nov 24, 2017	Match matters: Here’s some advice on how to interview for your residency	’Tis the season. Thanksgiving? Sure. Christmas? That too. But for thousands of fourth-year medical students and foreign medical graduates all over the United States, fall through early winter is a time of job hunting — interviewing for resi...
Oct 24, 2017	Let mastery of concepts rule the education of health professionals, not prespecified testing	When I compare my days at Harvard Medical School more than 50 years ago to the experience of medical students today, I’m struck by the tremendous change that has taken place. Today’s students are learning about health care costs and how to ...
Jul 24, 2017	Protecting interns and other physicians from depression and suicide	This month, more than 25,000 medical school graduates will begin working at hospitals and medical centers across the United States. By the end of September, nearly one-third of these new doctors could become depressed and 24 percent could h...
May 22, 2017	Training medical students how to teach helps them embrace ambiguity	Just months away from our medical school graduation, we found ourselves teaching in the first-year physiology course we had taken what seemed like eons ago. “Should you give fluids to a patient with a myocardial infarction?” a student asked...
Mar 10, 2017	Rookie docs can work 24-hour shifts under new rules	ASSOCIATED PRESS Cambridge Hospital first-year residents Samantha Harrington, center, and Vikas Gampa, right, talked during “sign-out,” on Feb. 27, at the hospital in Cambridge, Mass. Sign-out is when the rookie doctors exchange information...
Feb 1, 2017	Are your doctors lying about how long they worked today?	America’s resident physicians have strict limits on how many hours they can work in the hospital. Many break that limit and keep quiet about it. Others lie. Resident physicians are the doctors-in-training that millions of Americans come int...
Dec 19, 2016	Young doctors could work 28 hours straight under new plan, despite risks	The private group that oversees physician training in the United States has proposed rolling back rules so that young doctors just out of medical school can work shifts as long as 28 hours. The proposal relaxes work restrictions put in plac...
Dec 16, 2016	Young doctors could work 28 hours straight under new plan, despite possible dangers	The private group that oversees physician training in the United States has proposed rolling back rules so that young doctors just out of medical school can work shifts as long as 28 hours. The proposal relaxes work restrictions put in plac...
Nov 7, 2016	Long shifts are OK for new doctors, but we still need better handoffs	As I rode my bike home the morning after finishing my first 28-hour shift at the hospital where I had just started as an intern, I made a confident turn onto a one-way street. But I was going the wrong way, smack into the path of a car head...
Oct 13, 2015	Comics for medical education? Kickstarter campaign hopes so	Image: Jorge Muniz Promoted Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done? The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new rep...
Jan 27, 2010	University Hospitals Case Medical Center anesthesiology residency program gets shortened accreditation term	A resident in the program also posted at Student Doctor Network: “We were all shocked with the 6 months [accreditation],” the poster wrote, adding that the shortÂ term was a result of “several minor citations,”Â which were addressed by resi...
Oct 19, 2009	Is medical education better if residents are forced to get some sleep?	Promoted Covid-19’s terrible toll on diabetes patients. What can be done? The public health crisis has undermined the economy and made people with chronic conditions more vulnerable and stressed. Learn more with a new report from Omada Heal...
	Comics for medical education? Kickstarter campaign hopes so	Comics for medical education? Yes, please. That’s the response physician assistant Jorge Muniz is hoping for “Medcomic,” his collection of drawings he has completed over the past 2 1/2 years. Muniz has taken to Kickstarter in an attempt to ...
	University Hospitals Case Medical Center anesthesiology residency program gets shortened accreditation term	CLEVELAND, Ohio — The anesthesiology residencyÂ program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center recently received accreditation for only six months, rather than the usual 3-to-5 years, because of a “technicality” that has been corrected...
	Orthopedic surgeons pride themselves on fixing things. Can they fix their own field’s lack of diversity?	This is part two of a STAT investigation on the lack of diversity in orthopedic surgery. For part one, click here. Just last month, spine surgeon Shaina Lipa tweeted that she is the first Black woman orthopedic surgeon to be hired by any Ha...
	Is medical education better if residents are forced to get some sleep?	CLEVELAND, Ohio — Some medical residents have a new job requirement: sleep. Internal medicine residents at Cleveland’s University Hospitals and the local VA Medical Center are required to take a three to four hour nap during their 30-hour s...
	‘It was stolen from me’: Black doctors are forced out of training programs at far higher rates than white residents	Rosandra Daywalker had always excelled. The daughter of Haitian and Jamaican parents in Miami — one an auto parts clerk, the other a nurse — she’d received a nearly perfect score on the SAT, earned a full academic scholarship to the Univers...

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FAQ about ACGME

When was ACGME founded?

ACGME was founded in 1981.

What has the press written about ACGME?

Parsers VC has collected 32 articles mentioning ACGME, among them “Health | She died after liposuction by a pediatrician. Doctors warn of cosmetic surgery’s ‘Wild West’” (Apr 16, 2024) and “Emergency medicine is grappling with a surprising problem: The prospect of too many physicians” (Oct 27, 2023).

Is ACGME still active?

Yes, ACGME is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Nov 5, 2026.