APCCMPD initiates an IM-sub speciality request for focused revisions to the Program Requirements in Graduate Medical Education for the Internal Medicine Subspecialties as they relate to protected time and salary support for Program Directors and Associate Program Directors.  

The APCCMPD initiated a letter to the ACGME requesting focused revisions to the Program Requirements in Graduate Medical Education for the Internal Medicine Subspecialties as they relate to protected time and salary support for Program Directors and Associate Program Directors.  

The APCCMPD invited Program Directors’ group to from all  IM Subspecialties to provide comment and to join together with other Program Director organizations by signing a letter addressed to the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Internal Medicine Residency Review Committee (IM-RRC). 

The final letter was sent on behalf of on behalf of the APCCMPD; American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases; American College of Cardiology; American College of Rheumatology; American Gastroenterological Association; American Geriatrics Society and Association of Directors of Geriatrics Academic Programs; Association of Program Directors in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism; American Society of Hematology; American Society of Nephrology; American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy; and Infectious Diseases Society of America.

September 4, 2018- Review the final letter

Review ACGME's Response, March 13, 2019