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#On June 25, 2014, the '''ACGME''' passed a new residency requirement to take a 30-minute nap between 1 and 1:30 PM.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2014/06/naptime/ Naptime Now Required for Residents per GME Guidelines]</ref> Many residents agree that compared to older colleagues this new requirement will make them soft but not as soft as the pillows on which they'll be napping.
#On April 13, 2015, the '''ACGME''' approved a wilderness medicine residency in which trainees in the program will be paid in the form of pine cones.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2015/04/wilderness-medicine-residency/ Wilderness Medicine Residency Approved by ACGME, Offers to Pay Trainees in Pine Cones]</ref>
#On February 18, 2016, the '''ACGME''' stated that residents are eligible to receive a professional Medical Secretarial Degree (MSD) at the end of their intern year given their strong education in checking boxes and list-making at the expense of clinical knowledge and disease management.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2016/02/secretarial-studies/ ACGME Announces Interns are Eligible for Professional Degree in Secretarial Studies]</ref>
#On January 14, 2017, the '''ACGME''' recommended that all residents be given one interrupted hour each week to reflect on their monumentally-poor decision to choose medicine as a career and the consequences of that ill-sighted choice, which include but are not limited to lack of meaningful social interaction, burgeoning of bankrupting debt, and intractable nausea.<ref>[http://gomerblog.com/2017/01/acgme-2/ ACGME Now Requires Residents be Given One Hour a Week to Reflect on Their Poor Career Decision]</ref>
