Accreditation Council For Graduate Medical Education

The acgme holds an annual educational conference for the graduate medical education (gme) community. The conference provides the unique opportunity for members of the broad gme community to gain knowledge, exchange ideas, and network. Attendees include designated institutional officials, program directors, institutional and program coordinators, faculty members, other specialists and administrators, residents and fellows, and representation from both the allopathic and osteopathic medical communities, as well as international gme. The two-and-a-half day conference features over 150 pre-conference courses/workshops, conference sessions, keynote speakers, and exhibitors. The acgme also sponsors and hosts numerous other educational programs and workshops throughout the year on a broad range of topics customized to the needs of the gme community at-large.

The acgme does not provide consulting services in the united states. Outside the u.s., acgme global services offers customized advisory services to help governments and institutions optimize their postgraduate medical education (pgme) to deliver better health outcomes and safety to their populations. Clients may include ministries of health or equivalent governmental organizations, regional organizations involved with health professional education, and hospitals or hospital groups interested in starting pgme programs. The acgme assists its global clients develop pgme standards and systems to evaluate and accredit programs and their sponsoring institutions against these standards which are consistent with international best practices. It also provides infrastructure support to national and regional pgme accreditation organizations, including data collection, management, and analysis, provides training programs for standards developers, program evaluators and accreditors, site visitors, and pgme faculty members, assist potential training centers prepare to host pgme programs, and conducts seminars on the latest developments in pgme.