Today the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) presented 26 honorees at its Annual Educational Conference with awards, including the DeWitt C. Baldwin Jr Award presented in partnership with the Arnold P Gold Foundation, and the Jeremiah A Barondess Fellowship presented in partnership with the New York Academy of Medicine.
"This year's awardees demonstrate the innovations and best practices essential to continually improving resident education and patient care. The many outstanding accomplishments realized by the recipients show the contributions of program directors, faculty, residents, fellows, and program coordinators to advance the quality of resident physicians' education," said Thomas J Nasca, MD, chief executive officer of the ACGME.
The David C Leach Award is given to residents and fellows who have fostered innovation and improvement in their residency programs, advanced humanism in medicine, and increased efficiency and emphasis on educational outcomes. One of the recipients of this year's David C Leach Award is Gordon Powers, MD, Family Medicine, University of Vermont in Milton, VT.