2024 AOGME Educational Programming; Join us on April 16 at the AOGME Pre-conference Workshop at Educating Leaders 2024

By Sandra Snyder, DO
AOGME Chair 

January 31, 2024

We hope you are having a great start to the new year! This is a critical time for the GME community, as interviews wrap up, residency programs prepare to submit their rank order lists and fourth year medical students prepare to make life-changing decisions in the match. Yet, year after year, programs continue to succeed in the match and osteopathic medical students enjoy higher match and placement rates. We hope these facts help to ease the hectic environment in the coming months.

2024 AOGME Educational Programming

To support our community, AOGME has organized a series of educational forums this year organized into four main themes: GME development, academic medicine career pathways, transitions in medical education (including the transition to residency) and graduate-level osteopathic training. View the list full list of webinars through June 2024.

Next week, on Wednesday, February 7 at 4:00 PM ET, we are hosting a webinar on developing new psychiatry residency programs with experts Daniel Elswick, MD, FACLP, West Virginia University School of Medicine, and Chris Francazio, MBA, Healthcare·PKFHealth, LLC. Learn how to take advantage of opportunities and navigate barriers in your path to developing new psychiatry residency programs. Register today.

Call for Members to Serve on the 2024 AOGME Awards Review Subcommittee

We are seeking members to serve on a subcommittee to review the 2024 AOGME Awards nominations. We received ten AOGME Awards nominations this year, so this subcommittee will be tasked with reviewing the nominations and providing recommendations on the nominations to the AOGME Board. We hope to finalize the subcommittee members by the end of this week, so please email us at aogme@aacom.org as soon as possible if you are interested in this opportunity.

GME Development Opportunity: Third Round Application is Open for Residency Programs that want to Apply for New Residency Slots

Section 126 of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 authorized the distribution of 1,000 additional Medicare-funded residency positions. A maximum of 200 positions may be distributed to qualifying hospitals each fiscal year beginning in FY2023. The deadline to submit an application for FY2025 is March 31, 2024. View more information and submit an application.

AOGME Pre-Conference Workshop on GME Development Strategies in Underserved and Community-Based Settings

On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, join us for the AOGME Pre-Conference Workshop at Educating Leaders 2024, the AACOM Annual Conference. This full-day workshop will provide best practices in GME development in underserved (rural and urban) and community-based settings. Interactive sessions and education will focus on strategies to create and sustain GME programs in primary and non-primary care specialties in these settings. GME funding opportunities and solutions at the federal and state level will be explored with real-life exemplars and case studies. Approaches to recruit program leadership, faculty, and residents, ACGME accreditation and osteopathic training models for GME programs will also be addressed. View more information and register today.

UME-GME Task Force Pre-Conference Workshop: Train-the-Trainer Hands-on Workshop for Osteopathic Preceptors

Introduce or reintroduce yourself to osteopathic principles and osteopathic manipulative medicine (OMM) during this hands-on, unprecedented workshop led by national experts at AACOM's annual conference this year. This half-day event is ideal for educators, both MD and DO, who encounter osteopathic students or residents and would like to better enhance their understanding of OMM. Educators are welcome to take the skills from this event to implement similar workshops at your institutions. Register here - space is limited.

CORP Pre-Conference Workshop: Advising and Career Development Strategies to Maximize Residency Match Success

On Tuesday, April 16, 2024, AACOM's Council on Residency Placement (CORP) is hosting a full-day pre-conference workshop on Advising and Career Development Strategies to Maximize Residency Match Success at Educating Leaders 2024, AACOM's annual conference. This workshop will examine and present best practices on the transition from undergraduate medical education to GME, focusing on residency selection and match strategies. View the agenda and register today.

RSVP for the 2024 AOGME Reception and UME-GME Task Force Meet & Greet at Educating Leaders 2024

AOGME invites you to attend the 2024 AOGME Reception and UME-GME Task Force Meet & Greet at the AACOM Educating Leaders 2024 annual conference on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 from 6:30–8:30 PM at the Loews Kansas City Hotel. This year, in addition to the AOGME Awards and Collegium of Fellows ceremony, we will also host a meet and greet for members of the AACOM UME-GME Task Force during this reception. Space is limited, RSVP today.

AHME Seeks AOGME Members to Contribute to Developing their Guide to Medical Education in the Teaching Hospital, 6^th Edition

The Association for Hospital Medical Education (AHME) is seeking AOGME members to serve as contributors for chapter authorships in the 6th edition of their Guide to Medical Education in the Teaching Hospital book. They are seeking content experts in GME, finance and strategy, development, curriculum and evaluation, accreditation, operations and management, legal matters and CME. If you are interested in serving as a contributor, please email AHME Editorial Board member Dr. Sherry Turner at Sherry.turner@achehealth.edu and cc aogme@aacom.org with your interest and CV.

RSVP for the 2024 AOGME Reception and UME-GME Task Force Meet & Greet at Educating Leaders 2024

AOGME invites you to attend the 2024 AOGME Reception and UME-GME Task Force Meet & Greet at the AACOM Educating Leaders 2024 annual conference on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 from 6:30–8:30 PM at the Loews Kansas City Hotel. This year, in addition to the AOGME Awards and Collegium of Fellows ceremony, we will also host a meet and greet for members of the AACOM UME-GME Task Force during this reception. Space is limited, RSVP today.

Monthly Membership Discussions

Join us this afternoon, Wednesday, January 31, 2024 at 4:00 PM ET for the first monthly AOGME membership discussion of the year. This is an open discussion for all members to connect and discuss topics of interest or concern in GME. We encourage all new and existing members to attend and suggest discussion topics either in advance or during the meeting. Please contact us at aogme@aacom.org if you have agenda items, questions or have not received a meeting invitation.

Reminder: Register Now for the AOGME/ACGME Osteopathic Recognition Full-Day Course at the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference

Join us on March 7, 2024 from 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM ET for the ACGME/AOGME Osteopathic Recognition Full-Day Course at the 2024 ACGME Annual Educational Conference. This full-day course is designed for GME programs with and that may consider applying for ACGME Osteopathic Recognition. For this course, AMA CME credit will be provided by the ACGME, and AOA CME credit will be provided by AOGME. View the full-day course agenda and register now.

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