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Some or all of these aspects may be changed over time, with or without notice, at the sole discretion of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).\nApplicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States (US) on a full-time basis. The ACGME will not provide employment sponsorship for this position (e.g., H-1B Visa or other US employment authorization).\nJob Overview\nThe Editor-in-Chief serves as the steward of The Journal of Graduate Medical Education (JGME), responsible for ensuring the journal remains a trusted, relevant, and rigorous peer reviewed resource for the graduate medical education (GME) community. This role combines editorial leadership with field awareness (i.e., grounded in the realities of residency and fellowship education and training, and focused on advancing scholarship that improves educational practice to improve the quality of patient care).\nThe Editor-in-Chief represents the mission, vision, and values of JGME and is responsible for recruiting the JGME Editorial Board, which is editorially independent from the ACGME. The Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board together ensure JGME publishes work that is timely, methodologically sound, valuable to GME educators and researchers, and comprehensible to readers with varying expertise and roles.\nThe Editor-in-Chief is recruited by the Journal Oversight Committee of the ACGME Board of Directors, whose members and Chair are appointed by the ACGME, the publisher of JGME.\nThe Editor-in-Chief may not be an ACGME employee.\nESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES\nEditorial Direction and Content Priorities\n1. Define and maintain a clear editorial vision aligned with the needs of the GME community.\n2. Prioritize content that is rigorous, credible, relevant, and reflects the needs of GME educators and researchers.\n3. Ensure that the journal addresses emerging and ongoing challenges in GME, such as assessment, the undergraduate-to-GME and GME-to-practice transitions, new technologies, and professionalism.\n4. Develop new content to expand GME conversations in order to move the field forward.\nEditorial Decision-Making and Peer Review Oversight\n1. Oversee a high-integrity peer review process that is fair, consistent, and high quality through clear policies and processes.\n2. After input from senior editors and associate editors, make final publication decisions.\n3. Ensure behaviors and communications toward authors are collegial and educational, with an eye toward developing new authors.\n4. Recruit, sustain, and recognize a high-quality peer reviewer database that reflects the GME community.\n5. Continuously improve the peer-review process to help select the highest-quality articles, and to optimize submission-to-publication timelines.\nEditorial Board Leadership\n1. Lead recruitment of and sustain a high-performing, Editorial Board across specialties, academic seniority, geography, settings, and GME experiences.\n2. Provide orientation and ongoing guidance and feedback to senior and associate editors.\n3. Oversee educational materials and work with JGME staff members on instructions for authors and reviewers.\n4. Support a culture of responsibility, mutual support, and recognition.\nEditorial Independence\n1. Ensure that JGME’s scope aligns with the ACGME mission, while preserving an independent editorial board, peer-review process, and publication decisions.\n2. Ensure that the Journal Oversight Committee, which oversees the scope of the journal and the Editor-in-Chief’s performance, is informed of journal activities, directions, and policies at regular meetings.\n3. Lead recruitment of the JGME Editorial Board, including senior editors, associate editors, resident editors, visual media editor, and statistics editor.\nEthical Standards\n1. Uphold high standards for integrity, transparency, and ethical publishing, such as through following COPE (Committee on Publishing Ethics) and ICMJE (International Committee of Medical Journal Editors) guidance.\n2. Oversee processes for conflicts of interest, authorship questions, and corrections or retractions.\nGrowth of JGME\n1. Strengthen JGME’s position as a leading journal in medical education.\n2. Support strategies to broaden readership, engagement, and international reach.\n3. 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