As a member of the National Collaborative for Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE), ACCP has been invited to participate in gathering resources that our members use in their practice sites to foster professionalism within a clinical learning environment, including patient care areas within hospitals, clinics, and community-based practice sites. NCICLE is asking each of its 41 health care professional organizations and their members to review the pathways and properties in the Professionalism section of the NCICLE Pathways to Excellence document and submit tools and resources from their practice sites to be shared among the organizations.

The annual NCICLE Professionalism Resources Challenge is an effort to gather tools, resources, and ideas to facilitate sharing best practices more widely. Submissions must be linked to one of the Professionalism pathways found on pages 22 and 23 of the Pathways to Excellence document. Resources may focus on a single profession or involve all the health care professions that make up a patient care team. Examples of resources in this area include interprofessional orientation or training for students and residents on professionalism; developing policies on conflicts of interest or to ensure that learners, faculty, and staff communicate in an appropriate manner to the patient and others on the team; and developing methods to address inappropriate actions. Projects focused on maintaining a culture of professionalism are particularly important to submit. Resources need not have been published in the medical literature.

The tools and resources submitted during the Challenge will be shared at the next NCICLE meeting and placed in a resource repository on the NCICLE website. Please use the NCICLE Resource Submission Tool to submit 1 or more resources by September 30, 2025. Please send any questions about NCICLE or the Professionalism Resources Challenge to [email protected].