ACGME Announces 30 Recipients of Back to Bedside Funding for 2024-2026 Cycle
June 24 2024 - 11:06AM
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)
has selected 30 resident/fellow teams to receive the fourth cycle
of funding for Back to Bedside, a resident-led initiative to
develop innovative strategies for finding deeper connections with
patients, improving physician and patient well-being.
For this cycle, grant applicants could submit an original idea
as an “Open Innovation” project, or adapt a previous Back to
Bedside project to their local institution and context as a
“Project in a Box.” Of the selected projects, 23 are Open
Innovation projects and seven are Projects in a Box.
View the full list of newly selected Back to Bedside recipients,
projects, and team leaders. With this latest cohorts, more than 110
projects have been funded since Back to Bedside’s inception in
2017. This cycle’s project topics include promoting nutrition and
wellness during pregnancy, inclusive care for the LGBTQIA+
community, end-of-life care, and more.
In addition to funding, the ACGME provides grant recipients with
project and change management skills, leadership education, and
mentorship through Learning Collaborative meetings at the ACGME
office in Chicago; and regular check-ins throughout the two-year
grant cycle, culminating in an opportunity to present their
projects at the 2026 Annual Educational Conference in San Diego,
California.
“Residents and fellows are uniquely positioned to identify areas
for improvement in graduate medical education,” said Joshua Belfer,
MD, chair of the Back to Bedside Work and Advisory Group. Dr.
Belfer received a Back to Bedside grant in the first cycle of
funding. “By providing opportunities for collaboration,
professional development, and leadership, as well as funding, Back
to Bedside is building future leaders and change agents with the
drive and tools to creatively infuse meaning into the clinical care
experience into the future.”
Projects come from across the US, and each includes direct
patient interaction and outcome measures. Projects aim to improve
the clinical learning environment by increasing meaningful
connections for physicians with their patients and promoting
behaviors that advance physicians' and patients'
well-being.
The ACGME’s resident council, the Council of Review Committee
Residents, developed Back to Bedside in 2017 to combat burnout by
fostering meaning in the learning environment through engagement on
a deeper level with what is at the heart of medicine: their
patients.
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The ACGME is a private, non-profit, professional organization
responsible for the accreditation of 13,066 residency and
fellowship programs and the 886 institutions that sponsor these
programs in the United States. Residency and fellowship programs
educate close to 160,000 resident and fellow physicians in 182
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
advancements in accreditation and education.
Susan Holub
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
sholub@acgme.org