Happy Holidays! Final Call for Nominations: AOGME Awards and Two Open AOGME Board Positions

By Sandra Snyder, DO
AOGME Chair 

December 19, 2023

We hope you are all having a wonderful holiday season so far. As we look ahead to the new year, we want to first take a moment to reflect on just how successful this past year has been for us. We currently have a total of 1,444 members of AOGME, which includes 493 Residents and Fellows Council (RFC) members. More than 1,250 of our members are new members who were added to our community as part of the pilot complimentary membership campaign we introduced in April.

AOGME members currently come from over 700 residency programs and institutions across 49 states spanning both undergraduate and graduate medical education. More than 30 specialties and subspecialties are represented. Nearly 40 percent of our members are residency program staff or leadership, 34 percent of our members are residents/fellows, 22 percent are college of osteopathic medicine (COM) leaders, faculty or advisors.

Our growing community resulted in a substantial increase in engagement across a variety of programs and initiatives at AACOM/AOGME to support COMs and our GME community. Since May 2023, 280 new members actively engaged with AOGME with a total of 489 engagements by these members to include:

• Serving as speakers across our hosted webinars
• Attending and participating in webinars
• Participating in the AACOM Advocacy Day
• Serving on the AACOM UME-GME Task Force
• Engaging in the 2023 AOGME GME Development Institute
• Serving as abstract reviewers for the Educating Leaders 2024 annual conference
• Participating in AOGME membership meetings, AOGME’s Council of GME Leaders and the Education Committee
  

We thank all of you for your leadership and dedication to AOGME and the osteopathic GME profession, and we are excited to further leverage our success in 2024! We hope to see continued engagement from more of our members, if you are interested in getting engaged, please contact us at aogme@aacom.org.

Final Reminder for Call for Nominations: Two Open AOGME Board Positions

The AOGME Nominations Committee is seeking nominations for the Secretary/Treasurer position, an officer position, and At-large Member position on the AOGME Board. Individuals may self-nominate. The board member elections will be for a two-year term of office beginning in 2024 after the Annual Business Meeting. The deadline to submit nominations is December 29, 2023. View eligibility requirements and nomination materials to submit.

New at EL24 This Year! The AOGME Full-Day Pre-Conference Workshop

This year’s Educating Leaders annual conference will feature a full-day AOGME pre-conference workshop focused on strategies for GME development in underserved and community-based settings. This pre-conference workshop will be held from 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM CT on Tuesday, April 16, 2024. It will feature interactive sessions and education that focus on strategies to create and sustain GME programs in primary and non-primary care specialties. GME funding opportunities and solutions at the federal and state levels will be explored with real-life exemplars and case studies. Approaches to recruit program leadership, faculty, as well as ACGME accreditation and osteopathic training models for GME programs, will also be addressed. The target audience is GME program and institutional leaders, medical school leadership, GME faculty, individuals interested in GME academic careers and individuals involved in GME development and administration. Learn more and register today.

AOGME Webinar Series:

Webinar Recordings Available

On November 8, 2023, AOGME hosted a webinar titled, Unlocking Interpersonal Conflict: Pitfalls & Possibilities, featuring Sara Kim, PhD, associate dean for educational quality improvement and research professor at University of Washington School of Medicine. The webinar outlined the impact of healthcare conflict. In this webinar, Dr. Kim provided an overview of this issue and presented a recommended dialogue model to apply to conflict situations. View the webinar recording.

Upcoming Webinars

Be sure to join us for a slate of upcoming webinars of the AOGME Webinar Series. Upcoming webinar topics include rural psychiatry residency program development, setting up OBGYN residency training in rural and underserved settings, strategies for launching rural residency programs in critical access hospitals, best practices for developing ONMM residency programs, transition to residency series and more.

Monthly Membership Discussions

Join us tomorrow, Wednesday, December 20 at 4:00 PM ET for the next monthly AOGME membership discussion opportunity. This is an opportunity to connect with peers and raise topics for feedback or discussion. Please contact us at aogme@aacom.org if you have any questions or have not received a meeting invitation.

Please feel free to reach out to us at any time with direct inquiries by emailing aogme@aacom.org or calling us at 301-657-7881.

Thank you for your continued engagement and dedication to AOGME!

Thank you,

Sandra Snyder, DO
Chair, AOGME