NGMC Graduate Medical Education

Congratulations to our Transitional Year residency graduates! We are so proud of their hard work! To see where they are headed next, visit the link in our comments.

Congratulations to Dr. Monica Newton on her election to the Board of Directors of the American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM)!

Each year, ABFM elects only two family medicine physicians to serve in this prestigious role. The ABFM is responsible for establishing the standards for board certification in family medicine and, in recent years, has played a critical role in defining residency training outcomes, which is helping to shape both the scope and future direction of the specialty.

Through its highly innovative foundation, ABFM has also supported residency redesign initiatives and learning collaboratives that have been instrumental in advancing family medicine education nationwide.

Dr. Newton’s election is a significant accomplishment and a testament to her leadership, expertise, and long-standing commitment to advancing family medicine. She will serve a five-year term on the 16-member board, which includes both physician and public representatives.
Congratulations on this well-deserved honor!

To learn more about Dr. Newton, visit the link in our comments.

The annual NGMC GME Awards celebration marks the end of the academic year, and recognizes the accomplishments of our residents, fellows and faculty. Check out this year's standout award winners and congratulations to everyone on an amazing year!

Residency is hard. Motherhood is harder. Doing both? Warrior status!

Happy Mother's Day to our medical moms and mother's everywhere! Pictured here are several of our rock star Mom's with their precious children! Have an amazing day and thank you for all you do for so many.

Help us welcome Northeast Georgia Medical Center's new Designated Institutional Official (DIO), Dereck DeLeon, MD! Dr. DeLeon will lead its Graduate Medical Education program starting May 6.

Learn more at the link in our comments.

To the Cath lab or not?

In two high-acuity simulation scenarios, a PGY-4 Cardiovascular disease fellow faced the real-world complexity of managing a post-op LVAD patient with RV failure and a COVID-positive STEMI patient, while navigating physician negotiation around contested treatment decisions. World class training! Thank you sim team!

To learn more about our programs, visit the link in our comments.

More accolades for our Center for Simulation and Innovation (CSI)!

We’re proud to share that the CSI team is featured in the Association for Hospital Medical Education (AHME) Spring 2026 Newsletter! Their article, “Gamified Learning in Medical Education: Strategic Approaches from Northeast Georgia Health System’s Center for Simulation and Innovation,” spotlights how innovative simulation experiences, like Sim Wars and Escape Box, are amplifying resident training through hands-on, high-impact learning.

By blending simulation with gamification, CSI is helping our residents sharpen clinical skills, build confidence and prepare for real-world patient care in meaningful ways, shaping the future of graduate medical education.

Way to go, CSI team!

Read the article at the link in our comments.

Congratulations to Dr. Oliver Glass, Psychiatry Residency faculty member at NGMC GME, for presenting twice at the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry (AAGP) in D.C.! In his first presentation, he was the forensic psychiatrist at the mock trial, along with faculty from the University of Minnesota, Northwestern University and Harvard.

In the second presentation, Dr. Glass presented on testamentary capacity, financial capacity and on the Glass Testamentary Capacity Measure (G-TCM), which he developed. This was done with faculty affiliated with Creighton University/Yale and University of Minnesota.

You represent us so well, Dr. Glass! Well done!

To learn more about the Psychiatry Residency program at NGMC GME, visit the link in our comments.

The NGMC GME Research & Quality Improvement Symposium is next week - April 22! Don't miss the Keynote presentation by Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program Director, Dr. Ugochukwu Egolum, speaking on "Leveraging Research & Quality Improvement in the Development of High-Quality Healthcare Service Lines."

Continuing Medical Education credits are offered. Join us!

You can watch virtually by visiting the link in our comments.

National recognition—three years in a row!

Becker’s Hospital Review has once again named NGHS’s Center for Simulation and Innovation among the top hospital and health system simulation centers in the United States! From mobile simulation serving rural communities to nationally accredited, high‑fidelity training, this team is advancing safety, quality and compassionate care every day. We are so proud of this incredible team!

To learn more, read the press release at the link in our comments.